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You are to answer to the best of your ability, the two questions below & and give Comment on the last. ​The first is based on Week 6 Lecture - ​Dematerialized Objects: Conceptual and Minimal Art. ​The second is based on Week 7 Lecture - ​Information: Images from Dada to Digital. ​Slides have been provided for both Lectures under their corresponding Modules.

○ Submit one long Document with both Essays. ○ Sources should be credited and included in an

alphabetized Bibliography at ​the end of each Essay.

○ Essays should be approx. 1 page each. Double-spaced, 12 point Times New Roman.

○ Titled with something juicy and creative! 1 inch margin.

○ Name, date, professor, course name on each. ○ Your best academic writing. Complete sentences.

(Slang, short-cut abbreviations will be marked down.)

○ Proofread and edit for 'sense' and 'meaning'. Try to avoid run on sentences.

Question 1: "Conceptual/Minimal -Dematerialization" (approx. 1 page)

Give examples of artworks from Lecture slides in which instructions were/are the basis of the Art. Discuss the idea of 'dematerialization' and what it meant in the late 50s and 1960s when seen as a new trend or direction in Art.

● What exhibitions can you name or institutions which developed this trend? Who were key players? Writers? Curators at that time? How does Sol Lewitt's work express "dematerialization" and/or Minimalism?

● How do ideas of "instruction-based" art overlap with "ready-mades"? What does the idea of "instruction" pre-suppose in Art? John Cage specifically figures into this

"instructional" mode of artmaking. How do his ideas about sound and music connect to these new notions of art and the art object?

● How was Lucy Lippard's curatorial and art historical practice itself "conceptual"? Give an example.

● How does Conceptual Art differ significantly from Minimalism? Fluxus boxes and multiples, the creations of Brecht, Maciunas, and Patterson reflect the "dematerialization" trend in art-making. What do these artworks say about 'art' and 'value'?

Question 2: "Information: Images from Dada to Digital" (approx. one page)

Information is delivered by pre-digital 'electronic images' differently from how it is delivered 'digitally'. Describe the differences between 'analog' and 'digital' media. Give 3 -5 ways that these two types of media images differ. How are they the same? Contrast them. ​Choose either Hayles or Mitchell:

● What does N. Katherine Hayles say about 'electronic text' v. printed text? What does she write about suiting up in VR? What was she concerned about in her thesis on 'virtual bodies'? Be specific and quote, if necessary.

● William J. Mitchell talks about how digital images differ from electronic images. He writes about "photographic truth." How does Mitchell look at artists like Nancy Burson and how they were playing with images?

Give examples of at least 3 artworks from Christiane Paul (section on digital image composition in Ch. 1, pp. 27 - 52) which are working with 'truth' in image-making. How do your choices reflect changes in ​the materiality of images?​ State how your choices reflect these ideas.

● How might Hannah Hoch have viewed information & bodies considering the popular media sources she used for her collage works?

● What is Paulo Cirio or James Bridle doing in Art, with their use of, and interpretation of, information?

3. Last Question - Comment with your own ideas - informally - Did the in class performances give you any new ideas or thoughts about what Conceptual artists or Fluxus artists were doing with art in their time? What do these works suggest about Art's role and about art-making?