From object to process, craft in technological era, by Zoe, Gloria, Michelle and Lee

1. Object to Process,
Craft in New Technological Era
Gloria Lee Michelle Zoe

2. Slide 1

3. Slide 2

4. Object to Process
Autographic art
Artist’s work – finished objects like painting, sculpture
Artists have the direct control of material used

5. Object to Process
Cave Painting: Horse at Lascaux, France, c. 15,000-13,000 B.C.

6. Object to Process
Cave Painting: Wounded bison attacking a man at Lascaux,
France, c. 15,000-10,000 B.C.

7. Object to Process
Cave Painting: Bison at Altamira, Spain, c. 15,000-12,000 B.C.

8. Object to Process
David
Michelangelo
1501-1504
Marble Sculpture
Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Michelangelo
1508-1512
Painting

9. Object to Process
Girl With A Pearl
Johannes Vermeer Earring
1665
Painting

10. Object to Process
Starry Light Over the Rhone
Vincent Van Gogh
1665
Painting

11. Object to Process
Duchamp inspired diverse movements
from Pop to Conceptualism
“I was interested in ideas – not merely
in visual products,”
-from Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists
and Critics

12. Object to Process
Joseph Kosuth: “Actual works of art are little more than historical curiosities.”
-from The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists

13. Object to Process
Conceptual Art - applied to work de-emphasized or entirely eliminated a
perceptual encounter with unique objects in favour of an engagement with ideas.
Process Art - the means count for more than the ends. The artist sets a process in
motion and awaits the results.
Fluxus - was an avant-garde art movement that emerged in the late 1950s as a
group of artists who had become disenchanted with the elitist attitude they
perceived in the art world at the time.

14. Object to Process
Condensation Cube
Hans Haacke
1963-1965

15. Object to Process
Bandaged Orchestra
Yoko Ono
1965

16. Craft in New Technological Era
Allographic art
Artist’s work – artists not directly create the final output
– art making process with notation

17. Craft in New Technological Era
page 22 : Half Folded Library
Pak Sheung Chuen
2008
site-specific installation

18. What is Craft?

19. Craft is an activity that
involves making
something in a skillful
way by using hands

20. The Kiss
Auguste Rodin
Auguste Rodin
1889
Marble Sculpture

21. Johannes Vermeer
The Milkmaid
Johannes Vermeer
c. 1658-1661
Oil on canvas
17 7/8 x 16 1/8 in.

22. Cafe Terrace at Night
Vincent Van Gogh
1888
Vincent Van Gogh

23. “Craft is remembering that art is seen, felt and
heard as well as understood, knowing that not
all ideas start with words, thinking with hands
as well as head.”
Mark Jones
Director, Victoria & Albert Museum (2001 - 2011)
“Contemporary craft is about making things.”
Rosey Greenlees,
Executive Director of Crafts Council in the UK
Web source: Victoria and Albert Museum
<available online: www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/w/what-is-craft/>

24. Regardless of medium,
artists must demonstrate an understanding and
mastery of their will upon their chosen material

25. The Arts and
Crafts
Movement
between 1880 and
1910
led by William
Morris and John
Ruskin
William Morris

26. The crafted object never consider in isolation
Eva Hesse Studio work exhibition

27. Mental and Physical engagement

28. Balance among
•Materials
•Humanity
•Environment

29. What happens in technological era?

30. Alternative

31. Laser cut

32. 3D Print

33. Is it possible to craft
a new and technological work?

34. Art Machine ˙ Machine Art

35. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ-nrqzvX7Q
(1:28)
Retrospective, Tim Lewis. 2010.

36. http://roberthowsare.com/rational-aesthetics/drawing-apparatus/
Drawing Apparatus, Robert Howsare

37. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkhe6NPQNe4
Bugs draw for me (Drawing Machine), Harvey Moon

38. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afzun9kGh-o
Drawing Robot, Juerg Lehni and Alex Rich

39. New Material

40. “Virtuality”

41. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCHFAsXYHGA
Interactive Starry Night, Petros Vrellis

42. Visualization System
Rhizome of the Western Han: inhabiting the tombs at 1:1 scale
By ALiVE, CityU

43. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFd6WsObOu4
The inFORM table
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2489968/The-hi-tech-tabletop-creates-3D-version-YOU-moves-realtime.html

44. Craft-like Attitudes

45. Madam CJ Walker, Sonya Clark. 2008.

46. Vanity
Wendy Maruyama
2006

47. Marco Tempest

48. In the 1960s artists in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America began experimenting
with art that emphasized ideas instead of a physical product. In 1967 artist Sol
LeWitt gave this new art a name in his essay “Paragraphs on Conceptual Art.”
He wrote, “The idea itself, even if it is not made visual, is as much of a work of
art as any finished product.” Conceptual artists used their work to question the
notion of what art is, and often rejected museums and galleries as defining
authorities. The work of Conceptual artists helped to put photographs, musical
scores, architectural drawings, and performance art on an equal footing with
painting and sculpture.
MOMA Learning.
<https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/conceptual-art>

49. “Realistic, naturalistic art had
dissembled the medium, using
art to conceal art; Modernism
used art to call attention to art.”
Clement Greenberg. Modernist
Painting. 1961.

50. Marcel Duchamp. Fountain. 1917.

51. Robert Rauschenberg. Erased
de Kooning Drawing. 1953.
Authorship

52. Object of Art
Joseph Kosuth, One and Three Chairs. 1965.

53. Temporality
Gnaw. Janine Antoni. 1992.

55. Gallery (Context) as Subject
Mel Bochner.
Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed
as Art. A 1966 exhibition he curated for the School of Visual Arts Gallery in New York.

56. Collective Discourse as Subject
Fred Wilson. Mining the Museum. Exhibition at
Baltimore’s Maryland Historical Society in 1992.

59. Social Context as subject
Hans Haacke, Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real-Time. 1971.

61. s
Hans Haacke, MOMA Poll.1970.
At 'Information', arguably the first conceptual art exhibition by a US museum (MOMA.)

62. Karina Smigla-Bobinski. ADA.
2011.

63. Fluxus
- Active from the early 1960s to the
late 1970s
- The name Fluxus, taken from the
Latin for ‘flow’

64. George Maciunas(1931-1978)
Lithuanian-born American artist
"Purge the world of bourgeoisie sickness, "intellectual," professional and commercialized culture, purge
the world of dead art, imitation, artificial art, abstract art, illusionistic art, mathematical art, - PURGE THE
WORLD OF "EUROPANISM!" PROMOTE A REVOLUTIONARY FLOOD AND TIDE IN ART, promote living art,
anti-art, promote NON ART REALITY to be fully grasped by all peoples, not only critics, dilettantes and
professionals."
- George Maciunas, from the Fluxus Manifesto

65. Fluxmanifesto

66. Alison Knowles discusses the Fluxkit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPi0UyHB95U

67. Nam June Paik
(1932-2006)
video artist
Electronic Superhighway
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid950566900001?
bckey=AQ~~,AAAAAG6PY30~,pi5vFvB_srjYp5aiO9CarP3pmhhmv11f&bctid=821234899001

68. Tehching Hsieh
(1950- Now)

69. One year performances
TEHCHING HSIEH:

70. One year performance
(art/life piece; 1983-1984)

71. Yoko Ono
(1933- now )
- multimedia artist, singer, peace activist
Yoko Ono performances at Louisiana Museum in 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PZqi1oPXHk

72. Cut piece(1965/2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYJ3dPwa2tI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyynMDMaO8o

73. Bibliography
• GOODMAN on the WORK of ART: AN ONTOLOGICAL OMISSION by RICHARD
SHUSTERMAN, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
• Art in Its Time: Theories and Practices of Modern Aesthetics by Paul Mattick London ;
New York : Routledge, 2003
• The work of art / Gérard Genette Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, c1997-
• The annotated Mona Lisa : a crash course in art history from prehistoric to post-modern
/ Carol Strickland and John Boswell Kansas City : Andrews and McMeel,
c1992
• http://www.walkerart.org/
• http://www.theartstory.org/movement-fluxus.htm
• http://www.moma.org/collection/details.php?theme_id=10457
• http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/goodman-aesthetics/
• http://www.pakpark.blogspot.hk/