Course Description
Summary
Athletes accumulate statistics. Musicians write scores. Sailors keep logs. Courts keep records. Artists turn quantitative observations into qualitative experiences. We will look at the works of Charles Gaines, Mark Lombardi, Howardena Pindell, Guillermo Kuitca, Sofie Calle, On Kawara, Alfred Jensen, and Alighiero Boetti as examples for discussion. Students will engage in the exercise of mining their telephones, calendars, book/music collections, closets, drawers, cars, etc., for information that can be used in class projects. The resulting drawings will chart, map, graph, and index the found information in a myriad of ways.
