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- Janis Jefferies
- Janis Jefferies is an artist, writer, curator, and Professor of Visual Arts in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is Artistic Director of Goldsmiths Digital Studios and Director of the Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles. Jefferies was trained as a painter and later pioneered the field of contemporary textiles within visual and material culture, internationally through exhibitions and texts. In the last five years she has been working on technological based arts, including Woven Sound (with Dr. Tim Blackwell). She has been a principal investigator on projects involving new haptic technologies by bringing the sense of touch to the interface between people and machines and generative software systems for creating and interpreting cultural artifacts, museums and the external environment. In the spring 2009 semester, Jefferies will be a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Fiber and Material Studies.
Minimal can be impressive--it takes great restraint to be minimal in our 'maximal' society. It is easy to put so much into a grand spectacle/gesture--but to edit/reduce/restrain in a way that still results in something meaningful is, perhaps, a bigger gesture in the end.
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if the work is minimal doesn't it give the viewer more to consider. i would rather look at work that causes me to think, and allows me to understand and figure it out. rather than art that tells me what i'm suppose to be seeing. i want to find a connection, not just listen.
ReplyDeletedoes a fibers piece have to consume more space in a gallery and be larger than other mediums in a gallery to be a spectacle? or is the spectacle in the composition itself and and not merely the physical dimensions in relation to is viewers and other objects?
ReplyDeleteI found one definition of spectacle: A person or thing exhibited to, or set before the public gaze as an object either a. of curiosity or contempt or b. of marvel or admiration. Though usually the word conjures up images of extravagance, I guess anything that captures the gaze of the spectator, sparks curiosity, or creates a powerful experience could be considered spectacle. Wouldn’t spectacle, then, be in the eye of the beholder?
ReplyDeleteWolfgang Laib creates a perfect example of a minimal spectacle with his pollen piles.
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