Lectures

References from Reading

Below are all of the references Jerome Harrington directly mentions in his text. There are many, many more in the diagram that are not directly referenced in the text. I strongly suggest you look some of them up to understand the mapping more thoroughly before critiquing/discussing it.

Ethan Stern
Franz Schonbeck
Vanessa Cutler
Angus Powers
Sound Mirrors
Marc Barreda Sea Glass
Alexandra Ben-Abba Glass Haircut
Richard Box
Jerome Harrington
Emma Hogarth
Josiah McElheny
Kimberly McKinnis
Anna Norberg (click to video link)
Jocelyne Prince
Rui Sasaki
Barbara Amalie Skovman Thomsen
Jeff Zimmer

Lectures

Glass as Information: DATA

Below are the various links I referenced in my lecture on 2/5.

Artists with work at the Chazen who make use of “binary” information:
Xu Bing
Kara Walker

Data-driven work
Norwood Viviano
Norwood Viviano (video)
Adrianne Evans
Toots Zynsky (reference for one of Adrianne’s pieces)
Robin Johnston
Mark Nystrom

Ordering-Based Work
Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler
Spencer Finch @ the Highline
Rutherford Chang (Alphabetized Newspaper & Portrait by Tone)
Rutherford Chang’s We Buy White Albums

Information Mapping
Mark Lombardi
Ben Fry talking about Mark Lombardi
Peterson Projection as explained by the West Wing
Thermal Imaging Glassblowing
A l’il imaging of your body’s emotions

Information Displaced/Scaled/Modelled
Luke Jerram, specifically Glass Microbiology
Madeline Stemie (glass record)]
Jeffrey Mongraine – first link on top – An Evening’s Breath
Mark Zirpel

Information-Age Work
Paul Taylor (Digital Trust Hike)
Listening Post (Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin)

Information Transfer / Optics
Yuka Otani’s water vapor experiments
Jung Sun Oh’s Fiber Optic Projects
Anna Norberg (See Between Memory and History text and images)

Opportunities

Collegiate Glass Symposium

We’ve received the following invitation from UWRF!

Let me know if anyone is interested, please.

Hello all!
I wanted to touch base with everyone to invite and spread the word for this years newly renamed events.  The dates should coincide with most spring breaks and is also right before the GAS Conference in Chicago.  The event will take place the 18th of March, with most arriving on the evening of the 17th and heading to Chicago on the 19th.  We are approximately 4-1/2 to 5 hours from Chicago and 25 minutes east of the Twin Cities, just off of I-94.  For those that are thinking of flying into Minneapolis and traveling down, we would be happy to organize transportation from the airport to UWRF.  Also, check out MegaBus (us.megabus.com) for travel down to Chicago.  It is cheap, clean, and reliable (approximately 15-20$ ticket from St Paul) and we will again organize transportation to St. Paul for the bus.
Our students will host as many of your students as possible to ease costs for all, but space will be on a first come first serve basis.  So, the sooner you let me know the number attending, the better I can arrange housing.  I will send out a more formal schedule of events within the week but the tentative plan is:

Monday: Arrive eve/afternoon
Potluck at UWRF at 6pm, cup exchange

Tuesday: Events begin at 11am
7pm all ages social time

Wednesday:  Travel to Chicago for GAS

All schools will give a short video/powerpoint about the program, “compete” in fun events for the National Title, bring a “trophy” to use in the competition and bring a cup for a cup exchange.  In addition, if faculty are interested, I thought it worthwhile to begin compiling a collection of syllabi/projects to share among each of us.  If you have no interest in that, no sweat at all, we can scrap that.  Unfortunately due to the current issues that the state universities and the governor have regarding the budget and what’s been removed from it, we aren’t 100% in a position to commit to covering the faculty hotel rooms.  I am writing for funding in this regard and will hopefully be able to cover at least one night of this, but I can’t guarantee this at the moment.
Please let me know as soon as possible if you/school will be attending and the number of students that are traveling here.  Also, if you know of a school or person that didn’t get onto this list, please forward the information to them and send me their contact info so that we can include them.  We hope and look forward to seeing everyone soon!

Assignments

Week 2: Cups and silhouette

For Monday, 2/10:
Practice your basic cup sequence. Bring in all attempts and pick your one best cup. Qiang and Jenna: practice your pulled cups, focusing on comments from the first class.

Pick one of the X’ed silhouette drawings and troubleshoot it in the hotshop. Save all attempts. Also save your cutout. There are two pieces of Randall’s black construction paper on the bulletin board to make it easier to see. Some of you may want to consider making your pieces solid in some cases if applicable. Keeping your silhouette cutout at your bench while working for reference. Use calipers when necessary.

I had mentioned practicing punties in class, but we didn’t get to it in class, so don’t worry about this for this week!