next meeting

our meeting scheduled for this tuesday, the 30th, will be held in art bldg f, room 107, where the potluck is held. bring samples of your work. we will be discussing the publication and the collaborative project for the gaddis geeslin gallery. see you there!

Cinephiles Unite

F.A.C.S.S. is back with its Fall 2008 / Spring 2009 schedule.
Visit: http://www.facss.blogspot.com/
Don't miss the special F.A.C.S.S.S. page!

Connect / Disconnect

New exhibition in the Gaddis Geeslin Gallery.
More info: www.gaddisgeeslingallery.blogspot.com

The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery will be able to fund a CDCC project! We can offer a budget of $500.00 to create a work that embodies the spirit cross disciplinary collaboration. Stipulation: The project must coincide with the 2009 10th Annual Juried Student Art Show reception and Art Department Open House.(See 3G blog for dates). Please develope a conceptual outline and a rough budget by the end of the Fall 2008 semester. This is the first multi-departmental student project sponsored by the 3G. Congratulations and good luck!

the next meeting will be 9.30.08, tuesday, in the LSC (tentatively).

minutes from 9.23.08 meeting

-a new facebook group has been made to facilitate communication and updates, you should be able to find it by searching "cdcc" on the facebook seach box

- the CDCC has been given the opportunity by the head of the SHSU art department gallery committee head (our faculty sponsor Matt Guest) to do a funded project to be a displayed/held in conjunction with the Annual Juried Student Show.

- we officially decided to try to produce an Arts magazine to be distrubuted locally that would possibly highlight local events, etc, tbd.....

-also raised for discussion:.

• Bich showed her portfolio and talked about her work
• we talked about the rise of concept in the arts: in the visual arts, work produced after Duchamp being based no longer on taste and aesthetics. also, in music, the rise of programmatic music, music that is about something, rather than just music about music.
• we talked about how the rise of concept led to artists racing to produce something new, like the first sculpture out of discarded macaroni from inner city kindergarten classrooms, but that work that was so focused on innovation often lacked substence. so we postulated that there is now a move from concept to content, pointing to the addition of meaning and significance beyond mere novelty.
• we talked about art as communication; how the perception of the viewer, the act of viewing itself is the second half of the artisitc process, how every piece is always open to interpretation
• we talked about art as human experience; creating meaning, metaphor- creating new meaning from two things you wouldn't expect, gaining meaning that you couldn't get on your own.
• art as connecting with other people
• then a looong discussion of right/wrong, good/bad....
• continue these discussion and arguments on the blog!

don't forget about the potluck! tuesday, sept 23rd at 7 p.m. in art bldg f, rm 107. i fliered all over campus today, so we might get some new people. i just finished making my dirt cake!

ike

yeah, let's postpone the potluck until next tuesday, the 23rd.