March-April 1997 CAA News
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,--------------------------------------1 '";:!l Conference on Fair Use (cONFU) Survey I -.~... The proposed guidelines and this survey are also posted 0/1 CAA's web site: http:www.collegeart.orgjcaa/TlIe Profession/CEI/index.lIfml. I Po. ~< I I -5... Please check the proposed guidelines you have reviewed: I ~'" __ Digital Images __ Multimedia I __ Distance Learning '"... .s;, Which of the proposed guidelines should CAA endorse? " Please check the areas in which you currently use or anticipate Ei __ Digital Images __ Distance Learning using electronic resources: Multimedia None i __ Teaching __ Display or exhibition of art N Research __ Collections management Name ___________________________________________ 5 __ Scholarly publication __ Documentation of art Alfiliation ___________________________________ '" __ Curatorial publication __ Other e::> __ Artistic production ~ Address .______ . _____________ _ ~ Are the projects in which you are now engaged permitted by the proposed guidelines? Leslie King t:: a..., ~ \\ (' .9 __ Yes __ No Your CAA membership # ~ ',. .~ '"v If not, please explain. Permission granted to have your comments posted on the Hammond 0 <Il CAA web site? '" __ Yes __ No < Reacts to '97 ~- Are there projects that you would like to undertake that the I proposed guidelines would encourage or prohibit? Please Please return by April 15, 1997, to: I Conference '"00 specify. __________________ College Art Association, 275 7th Ave., New I '0'" York, NY 10001; Attn. James Romaine; fax: 212/ I -u OJ 627-2381; e-mail: [email protected]. I ..<:: L ______________________________________ ~ - ""...0 :::'" <Il" It has been stated that New York is such - an unusual city that they had to name it ~ twice. It might also be noted that each Z s time CAA has its annual conference in New Yark, it is looked upon as the MarchIApril 1997 mother ship of all CAA conferences. The Visitors at the Techno-Seduction exibition at Cooper Union 85th Annual Conference of the College College Art Association Art Association held in February at the 275 Seventh Avenue New York, New York 10001 New York Hilton and Towers was a mega-event that realized a series of new the professional development work Shapiro were interviewed before a initiatives originally conceived by the shops had attendance of more than standing-room-only audience. A Board of Directors CAA Board of Directors at our quarterly three hundred artists and arts profes significant highlight of CAA's new meetings and developed during our sionals. agenda included the co-sponsored second retreat in November 1996. An The Artists Portfolio Review, part Techno-Seduction exhibition, curated by Leslie King-Hammond, President estimated six thousand people attended of the new board initiative, invited Robert Rindler and Deborah Willis and Jolm R. Clarke, Vice-President Nancy Macko, Secretary sessions and events at this year's thirty-two curators to review 236 artists. accompanied by a stunning catalogue John W. Hyland, Jr., Treasurer conference. This exciting addition was as important designed by Mindy Lang. Techno Susan Ball, Executive Director Although traditionally the annual an experience for the curators as it was Seduction received an excellent review in Ellen T. Baird Christine Kondoleon conference offers approximately one for the artists. The pilot program will be The New York Times (see p. 12). The 1997 Marilyn R. Brown Patricia Leighten hundred sessions, it was expanded to fine tuned so that in subsequent years Regional MFA Exhibition organized by Diane Burko Joe Lewis 125 sessions in New York. There was we will have even more enthusiastic Susan Edwards at Hunter College Art Whitney Davis Arhtro Lindsay about a 10 percent increase in the participation and support from both Gallery was also a great success. Joe Deal Yong Soon Min. exhibits of books, museum publications, artists and curators. Congratulations to the curators, artists, Vishakha Desai John Hallmark Neff gallery events, journals, and artist As part of the CAA History Project, and designers of both exhibitions. Bailey Doogan Beatrice Rehl materials. The director of conference the board of directors also included the The conference convocation is Jonathan Fineberg Rita Robillard placement services estimated that 2,500 First Annual Artist Interviews paneL always a stellar occasion to pay homage Shifra M. Goldman NorieSato people used the placement center, and The artists Faith Ringgold and Miriam Linda C. Hults Roger Shimomura CONTNUED ON PAGE 14 Susan L. Huntington Jeffrey Chipps Smith Michi Itami Alan Wallach .. Studio Art experience of both the viewer and the enthroned king, showing how each This year's conference was interesting (!3ontents Sessions in Awards for would read the scenes from the vantage and rewarding for several reasons, points of doorways and throne. The including the diversity of the panels, the Volume 22, Number 2 copies of these throne-room stories, inclusion of panels for independent Excellence March/April/997 New York transferred to the obelisk, both rein artists, the range of panels for artists forced the message of imperial power who are interested in the digital world, .. ' From the President and made the na:rratives accessible to a 1 and the Techno-Seduction exhibition at wider public not allowed access to the Cooper Union. ollege Art Association's throne room itself. Sessions in New York Art History This was the first conference to host 2 annual convocation ceremony Addiction, apocalypse, chaos, cholera, eleven panels concerned with new was held at the New York Committee: John Clarke, University of . consumption, death, Dracula, filth, media. One such panel was even chaired C Texas, Austin, chair; Hollis Clayson, Awards for Excellence Golden Age, modernity, the "new" from Helsinki in real time through Hilton and Towers, February 14, 1997. 3 Nortlnvestern University; Judith Oliver, order, regeneration, renewal- these teleconferencing. Apple loaned us two CAA President Leslie King-Hammond Colgate University were some of the terms and concepts high-end computers; Interport Commu presided over the presentation of CAANews 9 engendered by this year's theme for nications gave us ISDN access to the awards for excellence in teaching, CAA art history sessions, "Decadence Internet; and John Engstrom provided scholarship, creativity, criticism, and conservation. Phillipe de Montebello, Annual Conference Update and Renascence." Indeed, as "Millen technical assistance for all the technol 10 niwn" banners flew from city buildings, ogy-based panels. director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, delivered the keynote address (see Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award the theme and the sessions and papers it Panels such as "Office Looks," Presented by Alan Wallach insert in this issue). Following are the CAA in the News provoked seemed timely and "Aphrodite/Amazon: Female Body Awarded to Rebecca Zurier, Robert Snyder, 11 award recipients and their citations: appropriate. building as Aesthetic Discipline," and Holly Pittman, Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize and Virginia Mecklenburg for Metropoli CAA meetings always function as "Spiritual Manifestations" demonstrated tan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their International C0111mittee 12 barometers of the state of art historical the wide range of visual arts issues that New York scholarship in America, and this year's were represented. We attempted to II, and that the Assyrians began with 13 l1wnks to Contributors gathering produced its own reading. It include panels for independent artists as Arthur Kingsley early experiments in more perishable The Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Award was appears that critical theory per se is on well as meet the needs of artists who Porter Prize wall painting, glazed brick, and terra established in 1980 in honor of a former the wane. Of course, this does not mean practice their art outside of the usual Presented by John Clarke cotta. director of the Musewn of Modern Art 14 Advocacy that art historians have abandoned college teaching venue. This conference Awarded to Holly Pittman for The White The article lucidly addresses-for and scholar of early twentieth-century theory, rather that it has infused the was the first time that artists' work was Obelisk and the Problem of Historical the first time-the problem of reading, painting. It is presented to the author, or discipline to the extent that it has reviewed by independent curators. It Narrative in the Art of Assyria relating the order and composition of authors, of an especially distinguished Annual Confercnce 1997 15 become inseparable from it. The body, was also marked by the introduction of a visual elements to the accompanying catalogue in the history of art, published already hot from last year, is still in; also program called "Art Talks," which Holly Pittman persuasively reinterprets inscription, and decoding the underly during the penultimate calendar year Solo Exhibitions by Artist with us is memory and the construction allotted time and space for artists to Members a canonical object of ancient Near ing visual logic of the scenes. Recon under the auspices of a museum, library, 16 of (art) history and approaches based on show their work. Both of these programs Eastern art in the virtual absence of structing the arrangement of these or collection. gender and sexual orientation. Some of were initiated by the Visual Artists People in the News textual evidence. Her rereading of the scenes in their original throne-room This year the award goes to Rebecca 18 Grants, Awards, & Honors the best papers I heard were informed Committee led by Rita Robillard. narrative sequence of episodes on the context, Pittman also proposes the Zurier, Robert Snyder, and Virginia by gay and lesbian studies. We would like to applaud the great White Obelisk leads to a new under One of the most positive aspects of success of Teclmo-Seduction, coordinated standing of the obelisk as a copy of a Conferences & Symposia 19 this year's CAA meeting was the by CAA and Cooper Union, and the narrative program that originally lined cultural diversity represented by the imaginative installation of the show by the walls of a long narrow room, 20 Opportunities participants and the papers presented.