Readings, Resources and Inspiration for SIM Major Studio
SIM Specific
- “Revisiting the Sandbox” (6.9 MB .pdf) About the SIM Department by Nita Sturiale, SIM Alum and Professor
- Review Boards information doc on google drive
- Eventworks information doc on google drive
- Find resources in this folder on the google drive regarding critique methods.
Contemporary Art Practice
- Relational Aesthetics, Nicolas Bourriaud, pgs 7 – 40
- Essay – The dematerializaton of art by Lucy Lippard and John Chandler
- Psychopolitics : neoliberalism and new technologies of power by
Han, Byung-Chul - The Social Dilemma documentary – available at the following links:
- TV Museum (Contemporary Art and the Age of Television) – (Introduction), Pg. 1-24, and Chapter Three – Reality TV, Delegated Performance and the Social Turn, Pg. 25-61, By: Maeve Connolly c. 2014
- YouTube Scenes and the Public Re-seen: Natalie Bookchin and the Digital Public, Pg. 1-18, By: H Arden – c. 2018
- DIS Online Journal – ezproxymca.flo.org/login?url=h
ttps://dis.art - The American Meme Netflix Series, see trailer here > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms8OdjWJRPY Watch full series on Netflix in the library, ask librarian for details.
- Be Kind Rewind film – Director: Michel Gondry, 2008
- The Creative Process by James Baldwin
- HyperNormalisation video by Adam Curtis
- DARK MATTER Activist Art and the Counter-Public Sphere, by Gregory Sholette… as a .pdf.
- The American Mind …and as a .pdf.
Art as Activism
- “In Tough Times, Artists Find Inspiration, Invention” All things Considered Radio segment
- Art and Protest
- Gran Fury and the response to the AIDS epidemic
- Dada Movement
- Art and the Great Depression – https://www.huffpost.com/
entry/art-activism-1930s- today_b_1098260 - Artists of the New Deal – History channel
- Art21 episodes:
- Civil Rights Movement, library links:
Dismantling Racism
- The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race edited by Jesmyn Ward
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- White Rage by Carol Anderson
- Citizen, An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
- How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
- Biased by Jennifer Eberhardt
- Uprooting Racism by Paul Kivel
- Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen
- The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter
- The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
- White Fragility. Talking About Racism -DiAngelo …and as a .pdf.
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
- The 1619 Project, The New York Times (direct link)
SIM Faculty Top 5 Picks
Below you will find artworks, ideas, and places that the SIM faculty believe you should know about. Viewing and/or researching the following Top 5 Picks will enhance critiques and help you make the best of your limited time in SIM.
Elaine Buckholtz
- “4.33” (1952) John Cage
- “How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare” (1965) Joseph Beuys
- “Voice of the Actor” (reprinted 1991) Cicely Berry
- “Mining the museum” (1992-93) Fred Wilson
- “Her Long Black Hair” (2004) Janet Cardiff
Dana Moser
- “Cut Piece” (1964) Yoko Ono
- ‘Society of the Spectacle‘ (1967) Guy Debord
- “Untitled” (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) (1991) Felix Gonzalez-Torres
- “Saddest Music in the World” (2003) Guy Madden
- _Citizen_ (2014) Claudia Rankine
Nita Sturiale
- “Manifesto For Maintenance Art” (1969) Merle Ukeles
- “Silueta Series” (1973–1980) Ana Mendieta
- “Consilience” (1999) EO Wilson
- “Critique Response Process” (2003) Liz Lerman
- “Sunflower Seeds” (2010) Ai WeiWei
Harris Barron (SIM Founder and Professor Emeritus)
- “We see only what we look for. We look for only what we know.” quote Geothe
- “What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about. My difficulty is only an – enormous – difficulty of expression.” quote Ludwig Wittgentstein
- “When we are no longer children, we are already dead.” quote Constantin Brancusi
- “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Who looks inside, dreams: who looks inside, awakes. The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.” quote Carl Jung
- “Secrets, Lies and Democracy” (1994) and “Manufacturing Consent” (1988) Noam Chomsky
Donald Burgy (Professor Emeritus)
- The Dawn Redwood: a very tall tree in the Boston Public Garden next to Arlington Street near the Boylston street corner.
- Philosophers Stone: a large rock from China positioned on the front lawn of the Museum of Fine Arts.
- A chapel in the Mission Hill Church filled with crutches and wheelchairs abandoned during miracle healings.
Ben Bigelow (Visiting Faculty 14/15)
- “Fountain” (1917) Duchamp
- “Ways of Seeing” (1972) John Berger <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pDE4VX_9Kk>
- “eRacism” (late 70’s) William Pope l.
- “All About Love” (2001) and “Art On My Mind” (1995) bell hooks
- “A Family Finds Entertainment” (2004) and “Center Jenny” (2013) Ryan Trecartin
Juan Obando
- “Instrument: Ten years with the band FUGAZI” (2001) by Jem Cohen
- “TAZ: Temporary Autonomous Zone” (1991) by Hakim Bey
- “Relational Aesthetics” (2002) by Nicolas Bourriaud
- “The New Aesthetic” (Ongoing Investigation) by James Bridle
- DEATH GRIPS
MassArt Library Research Guides
For further study, the Morton Godine Library staff along with the SIM faculty have developed several subject-based online resources and collections designed for SIM Majors. Below are few of the subjects you can search for @ https://massart.edu/library:
- AI
- Diversity, Racism and Protest
- Light and Lighting
- New Media Art
- Art, Life and Money
- Nature, Science and Art
- Installation Art
- Sound Art
- Performance Art
- Dance
- Video Art