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Repost from •Come celebrate the opening of the next iteration of Corpus Ex Machina this Thursday, May 5 from 3:30 to 5PM...
05/03/2022

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Come celebrate the opening of the next iteration of Corpus Ex Machina this Thursday, May 5 from 3:30 to 5PM in our Open Classroom. This new version of the exhibition explores the implications of technological surveillance and data accumulation on our bodies and lives, tracing a history of technologies of surveillance—photographic and architectural—from the 18th century to the present. Corpus Ex Machina: Smile, You’re on Camera asks how and what technological vision sees when it measures human activities and forms.

The exhibition centers on a single work from the Neuberger Museum of Art’s collection. Conformal Guyou L2sph(8/6)7_98, by Lilla LoCurto and William Outcault, was created in 2000 utilizing then cutting-edge scanning and mapping technologies. The resulting image is an unsettling, strange representation of the human body, disseminated across a global grid. This work represents urgent, concerning issues about the relationships between representation of the physical world, technological advancement, and perception of the human body.

Curated by 404 Collective: Leigh Colby, Jordan Frank, Mark Lusardi (Art History MA/M+ students), and Emily Nugent (BA/BFA 2022).

Access the web version of this exhibition at corpusexmachina.com.

The exhibition is an Open Classroom project made possible with support from the Purchase College Art History Department (), Neuberger Museum of Art, and the Strypemonde Foundation.

Image: Shannon Stapleton, Dashboard for the New York Police Department’s Domain Awareness System, 2016

Barbara Kruger’s 1989 artwork, as relevant now as ever.
05/03/2022

Barbara Kruger’s 1989 artwork, as relevant now as ever.

Happy Earth Day! Here are some collaborations between mother earth and artist Anna Mandieta
04/22/2022

Happy Earth Day! Here are some collaborations between mother earth and artist Anna Mandieta

Pictured: Panel 5- “We have no property! We have no wives! We have no children! We have no city! We have no country!” fr...
04/05/2022

Pictured: Panel 5- “We have no property! We have no wives! We have no children! We have no city! We have no country!” from Jacob Lawrence’s series: ‘Struggle: From the History of the American People”
1955
“Lawrence, in 1955, decided to give lie to this notion of separateness. He conceived of and began Struggle not as a black narrative cycle, but as an American one. He had always painted our shared history, and it was marginalized and misunderstood as being black history, somehow outside of the American narrative.” -
“It is very telling that this work has come back to us at this moment. I don’t need to tell you that we are under a fraught time in our democracy- very similar to the fraught times in which these paintings were made. There are a lot of analogies to be made between 1955 and 2018, when I write this. The corruption of ideas, the white supremacist violence directed at black people, the demagoguery- all this is familiar. Now, as Lawrence did in 1955, artists are exploring history, imaging their fellow citizens, investigating the ongoing American struggle. It’s not over. It continues. And far from being our history, it is our now. Struggle is what we must do to continue making our union more perfect.” - -Excerpts from “I, Too, Sing America”

Umberto Boccioni, Head + House + Light 1912, plaster (destroyed). Covering with some Survey II this week!
04/05/2022

Umberto Boccioni, Head + House + Light 1912, plaster (destroyed). Covering with some Survey II this week!

This post is dedicated to . Look at her work and read her journals for a truly special perspective of the world. The l...
03/22/2022

This post is dedicated to . Look at her work and read her journals for a truly special perspective of the world. The last image features a quote of hers that reads “It is not true that only artists understand art, for there are in every generation some people who not only understand it but also enhance its reach by appreciation.”

02/24/2022

Goya knew the . Currently flipping through this series as protesters march outside my NYC apartment.

Foreshortened stiffs. Image features details from Uc***lo, di Cosimo, and Mantegna.
02/16/2022

Foreshortened stiffs. Image features details from Uc***lo, di Cosimo, and Mantegna.

First image: Old faithful, Richard Serra’s list of verbs. Any other folks out there keep coming back to this one? Next i...
02/10/2022

First image: Old faithful, Richard Serra’s list of verbs. Any other folks out there keep coming back to this one? Next image: the lesser known, slightly more psychosexual list of verbs by Lee Lozano. Her and Serra were friends and they took an interest in one another’s work—But their lists could not have more different endings!

Happy first week of the semester! Shout out to all the commuters! Images above feature colorful 1930’s lino cuts by Bri...
02/01/2022

Happy first week of the semester! Shout out to all the commuters! Images above feature colorful 1930’s lino cuts by British-born artist Cyril E. Power. Images depict people traveling at rush hour on busses,trains, and escalators. Artwork is up at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Join us on zoom at 5pm tomorrow by following this link: https://www.purchase.edu/calendar/event/28434 is a (BFA 19...
12/07/2021

Join us on zoom at 5pm tomorrow by following this link: https://www.purchase.edu/calendar/event/28434 is a (BFA 1980). He is best known for his made with motors, surveillance cameras and found objects. He has been showing his work regularly in the U.S. and abroad since his first exhibition at Artist’s Space in 1983. In 2005 his immersive installation “The Palace at 4 AM” was exhibited at and travelled to the Louisiana Museum (Copenhagen) and ZKM (Karlsruhe) and is permanently installed at the Phoenix Kulturstiftung / Sammlung Falckenberg (Hamburg).

His newest sculptures are “balancing acts” that slowly move with wind and viewer interaction. Bronze, brass , ceramics, stainless steel and found porcelain figurines combine to form works which comment on ecological collapse and environmental precariousness.

Recent activity includes the 2017 (New York), “L’Ennemi de Mon Ennemi” at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris) and the Guangzhou Triennal, (Guangzhou)

Recently learned of the loss of the incredible poet and visual artist Etel Adnan. Thank you Rema Ghuloum for paying trib...
11/18/2021

Recently learned of the loss of the incredible poet and visual artist Etel Adnan. Thank you Rema Ghuloum for paying tribute to her in your artist talk this evening.

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