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Student Loans, Debt, and the Arts: A Introduction to Strategies for the Uninformed Professional Student

Wednesday, April 7, 7 pm
Location: Headquarters: 1003 E Fayette Street, Apt 10 (enter thru back door)
Description: with Mark Grimm. In this workshop we will cover financial strategies, problems and debt related issues due to excessive educational goals in the arts contributing to personal financial crisis. We will learn to fill out paperwork associated with cutting student loan and credit debt and learn some ways to build new credit. We will also discuss how artists can manage their education in ways that minimize debt and strengthen credit.

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By admin – March 22, 2010

Art & Social Movements Reading Group

Sunday, March 28, 11 am
Location: Headquarters: 1003 E Fayette St, Apt 10
Link out: Click here
Readings:

1. A Hacker Manifesto by McKenzie Wark:http://subsol.c3.hu/subsol_2/contributors0/warktext.html

2. Radical Software Issue 1. Read “Address to Readers” and choose one article to discuss in issue 1: http://www.radicalsoftware.org/e/volume1nr1.html

Check out the rest of the Radical Software website (http://www.radicalsoftware.org/e/index.html) for more background info and such.

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By admin – March 22, 2010

Beer Making/Happy Hours

Friday, April 9
4-7 pm

Location: Headquarters: 1003 E Fayette Street, Apt 10 (enter thru back door)
Description: Come talk, drink, make beer.

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By admin – March 21, 2010

Fundraising Survey

Help the AS think of ways to support itself, provide resources, and fund artists. Take our survey (you can check as many ideas as you like). These ideas were generated at the Alternative Funding Workshop on March 10. [see notes here]

[SURVEYS 1]

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By admin – March 13, 2010

How to Make and Art School

Saturday, April 10
10 am – 6 pm
Location: Headquarters: 1003 E Fayette Street, Apt 10 (enter thru back door)
Description: a day long retreat–lots of food and beverages will be provided.
We will begin by pretending that art schools don’t exist, but that we are charged with creating one. We will end by developing some rough draft practical proposals that will be given to The College of Visual and Performing Arts at SU. If you’d like to participate, please RSVP to Joanna Spitzner: joanna@theasintheas.org

P.S. If you can’t make the whole day, perhaps you can come to some sessions.

DRAFT SCHEUDLE

10 AM (coffee and food)
Discussion: if no art schools existed, how could we begin to make one?
What is an artist–what are the qualities of an artist, how does one become one, what skills, connections, contexts must an artist have? What relationship should the school have with the university, with the professional world, and with society in general?

11 AM Questionnaire
Individuals write responses (online form submissions also shared)

Online form for Questionnaire

Sharing of answers and discussion

11:45 BREAK

12:00 Discussion on readings: On the Ground, Practical Observations for Regenerating Art Education, by Ernesto Pujol;  The Thing Seen, Reimagining Arts Education for Now, by Ann Lauterbach

12:45 LUNCH

1:30  Brief presentation on history of art schools

2:00 discussion on readings: Artereality (Rethinking Craft in a Knowledge Economy), by Jeffrey Schnapp and Michela Shanks ;  States of Exception, by Steven Madoff

2:45:  Brief presentation on new and alternative models (critique of institutions/outside the institution)

3:15 BREAK

3:30 Discussion/Brainstorming: Core concepts for guiding a curriculum at an art school

4:00 Discussion: What of Disciplines and The University
Are classes the best model? What experiences should a school offer? What opportunities should be made available? What is teachable? What knowledge should be imparted? What skills should be imparted? Should art programs be receptive to other disciplines? How so? Is media the best way to organize a discipline?

4:45 Brainstorming: Proposals for VPA

6:00 end (drinking encouraged at this point)

Supplementary readings:

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By admin – March 7, 2010

Video Installation: Acting Out, by Chelsea Knight and Austin Shull

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Thursday, March 25, 6-9 pm
Location: Headquarters: 1003 E Fayette Street, Apt 10 (enter thru back door)

Description: Chelsea Knight ( chelseaknight.com ) and Austin Shull ( austinshull.com ) are two New York based video artists. They have collaborated on a new video installation piece called Acting Out, which will be on view for one night only.

“The video explores the inheritance of specific forms and structures of confinement. Working with ten actors and a director inside the Skowegan Jail, the artists record the rehearsal of Ubu Roi, an early 20th century political parody play and precursor to the Theater of the Absurd. The rehearsals and performances by the actors highlight the arbitrary and farcical nature of our systems of confinement and incarceration.”

Chelsea and Austin will be visiting artists in Time Arts at SU.  Their installation coincide with the opening of the Sensational Remix, the Matrilinage exhibition at Spark .

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By admin – March 4, 2010

AGAEUL: Matrilineage Edition

Friday, March 5, 10 pm-until whenever

Title: AGAEUL: Matrilineage Edition
Location: Headquarters: 1003 E. Fayette St. Apt 10
Description: The Avant Garde Experimental Underground Lounge, in celebration of the Matrilineage Symposium. Head down to the Art School after guest Amy Alexander’s VJ performance at the Warehouse. with DJ “witchever singularity”

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By admin – February 25, 2010

Alternative Funding: Models and Brainstorming Session

Notes / links from Joanna’s presentation are here.

Wednesday, March 10, 7 pm
Location: Headquarters: 1003 E. Fayette St. Apt 10
Description: We’ll look at some alternative funding models—microfunding, bartering, cheap art auctions, selling goods, selling shares, job banks, trade for services, sliding scales, playing the lottery, and things we haven’t even thought of yet. We’ll also spend some time brainstorming as a group about ways to explore funding–for individual projects, and as a group.

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By admin – February 25, 2010

Starting a Micro-Lending Bank

Wednesday, March 24, 7 pm
Location: Headquarters: 1003 E. Fayette St. Apt 10
Description: Tom Gokey and Meg Backus: Starting a Micro-Lending Bank
Meg and Tom have the idea of starting a zero-interest micro lending bank to fund education loans. There have already been a couple for-profit on-line micro lending banks created like this just in the last couple of months. You can create an account and your grandma and aunts and uncles can give you a $10-$1000 loan that you would pay back at competative interest rates. If you can do this, why not do a zero-interest version that is indexed to inflation? Grandma and aunts and uncles would get their money back in the end, but why profit off your own grandkid/niece/nephew? Why not just help them out? We’ll talk about this idea and how to get it off the ground.

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By admin – February 25, 2010

16mm Film Screening

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Tuesday, February 23
7:00 – 8:30 pm
popcorn and beverages will be served.
Location: co-opted space # 3: XL Projects, 303-317 South Clinton Street

Featuring:

  • Comic Zoom (8 minutes, 1968) Eva Szasz
  • Neighbors (9 minutes, 1952) Norman McLaren
  • The Dot and the Line (9 minutes, 1963) Chuck Jones
  • Closed Mondays (11 minutes, 1974) Will Vinton and Bob Gardiner
  • American Time Capsule (3 minutes, 1967)
  • Neon, Electric Memior (24 minutes, 1985)
  • Braverman’s Condensed Cream of Beatles (15 minutes, 1974) Charles Braverman

This is a chance to watch film as film, with projectors an everything. Gail Hoffman, Carmel Nicoletti, and Karl Wasmuth have made selections from various people’s collections of 16mm film. You can also vote which films you’d like to see at our next screening. Thanks to Andrew Havenhand for helping to make this happen.

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By admin – February 11, 2010