TIA 2005: Art from Ephemera (Mail Art and the Internet)
Text and Image Arts
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Fall 2007 - Spring 2009
Art from Ephemera (Mail Art and the Internet) was a multi-media studio class where students explored the distribution of images and text through network systems, creating art from ephemera in the form of hand-made mail art, as mass-produced printed material, and in digital format as e-mail art and blogs. Students were introduced to strategies of visual communication traditionally associated with Dada, Fluxus, and Mail Art movements, initially looking at a range of artists from Marcel Duchamp to Henrik Drescher. Our investigation each semester progressed towards more recent approaches to these strategies that utilize digital technology and the Internet, both as a broadcast medium (one to many), as well as a system that enables new forms of emergent content (many to many). In this way, students considered the medium of the Internet from both aesthetic and conceptual perspectives. Students had the opportunity to develop their personal voice through several short individual assignments, paying particular attention to the interface of art and technology, as well as contemporary theory around access, public and social spaces, interaction, audience, and community during class critiques, slide lectures, readings, films, and special presentations.
5 comments:
where did you find it?
This is really intriguing. Formally, I like the way the paper is cropped so that it really creates the illusion of a slightly crumpled piece of paper sitting on top of my computer screen. The content of the scrap makes me think of rules to a home-grown card game. But the actions corresponding to the card values (i.e. Bust a rhyme) are completely cryptic to me!
I found it one night at my house when I was cleaning up after a party I had. Someone had written down the rules for Kings when they were going to play it I guess, and I found it later.
What a cool find. I'm glad I have no idea what "Kings" is. Makes this so much more random and intriguing! Haha.
I think of the number of different times that different rules for different versions of Kings have been written down by different people, and I laugh.
And the nature of Kings being what it is, no one cares about the rules by the end anyway.
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