David Spriggs

http://www.davidspriggs.com/

Here is the website to Montreal Artist David Spriggs. He is an MFA graduate from Concordia's Sculpture program and has a very unique and interesting practice. And, while his website is beautiful, the dimensional layered painting/sculptures he does need to be seen in real life to be fully understood.

I believe that a few can be seen at Art Mur in Rosemont.

Print scheduler and Crit notes

Here is the link to the site that you reserve your print times for the 9th floor labs. If this is your first time up there you should check the schedule and come by when a monitor is there to see if they can help you calculate what the cost will be of printing your job. 

http://printmediaschedule.hybrid.concordia.ca/index.php

Remember that you need to factor some tests and specifically test strips to check things out for colour and quality. If you do not do this you will be required to pay for prints even if they come out wrong. 

Remember, that 8 1/2 x 11 and 11 x 17 prints are not what I am looking for in this class. If you print make sure the size has a reason. I prefer large prints over small ones, unless you do many and they have a conceptual reason for being small. 

If you want to print externally, there is a tab in the side bar of the blog with a few outsource places. I heard good thing about surface jalouse if any one wants to try them out. AS with the lab upstairs, you must talk to these people way before you bring a file on for printing to get an idea about time ad cost. most places will charge a hefty premium for stuff printed the same day so plan ahead. 

For the crit in 2 weeks, remember you must have something to show. and talk about. If you don't get your print done, you still need a presentation for me. Not showing to the crit without a medical reason and proof is a fail for the crit. There will be no compromises here.

Jim Campbel

Jim Campbel's work varies from print to physical computing interactive sculptures and animated panels. His entire body of work is worth a deep look and is both technically interesting and very refined and poetic at the same time.

http://www.jimcampbell.tv/

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Lozano-Hemmer is a very interesting and prolific artist dealing with new media and interactive architectural installations. He is a Concordia Graduate is Physical Chemistry. 

Here are some links to interesting projects of his, but it is worth taking the time to navigate his site and go deeper in the entire body of work. 

body movies

close up

pulse park

Thomas Ruff

It is really hard to show a selection of Thomas Ruff's work as his artistic practice is huge. Each large series explores a specific element of contemporary culture or technology. He has looked at the modern nude through academic compositions of modified internet porn images, he has explored jpg compression with images of nature and disaster (also culled from the internet), he has examined 3D software animation curves, photoshop layering of comic books, stellar photography, extreme large scale photo, stereoscopic photography, etc. the list is almost endless. 

Ruff, perhaps a prime example of what my project is asking for. He looks at technology and what technology allows or facilitates. He maintains a conceptual practice, while also mixing it with a very aesthetic one. He will always allow the technology to take centre stage, but will intervene with a very trained eye to make sure all compositions are aesthetic and balanced.  

Loretta Lux

Loretta Lux is a very successful german artist who's work is a fusion of photography, very meticulous digital retouching and painting. Her education and training was as a painter. After graduating from painting she ventured almost completely unversed into photo and digital and I feel that is what made her strength. 

Her work makes many references to a painting tradition, renaissance art, and traditions of portraiture while very openly referencing very contemporary media and technology.

Reworking the blog design

I am currently tweeking the way the blog will work. My new idea is to have all the important references linked in the side bar ie. Course outline. And I will post artist and discussion points in the regular blog page.