Art 110 Section 3 - Museum TripsFebruary (due by March 1st) MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) 
MOCA has three locations:
"MOCA-Grand Avenue" which is across the street from the Walt Disney Concert Hall and is NOT where we are going.
"MOCA-Pacific Design Center," which is also NOT where we are going. And
"MOCA-The Geffen Contemporary" in Little Tokyo which IS where we are going. The exhibition Ecstasy
In And About Altered States is your destination.MOCA doesn't allow photography of this exhibition so I unfortunately can't ask you to take a photo of yourself inside Erwin Redl's amazing installation there... your photo for this trip only needs to be a picture of you outside the museum. Maybe you can hold up your tickets or your souvenirs if you bought any. Standing under the "Ecstasy" banner would be nice. For your 300 word e-write-up you can spend about half on Erwin Redl's piece and about half on any other aspect of the exhibition you'd like. For Redl's piece talk about the experience of standing in that space - how it makes you feel - viscerally - conceptually, etc. Where "in space" or "in mind" are you when you're in his room? For the rest of the show, pick something you find interesting, explain what draws you to it, analyze how it functions, and describe what it means to you. • NOTE: This exhibition closes on Feb 20! • Be sure to use THIS LINK to submit your EC email for the MOCA trip. • If it is impossible for you to use the link above then email your submission to: gzucman@csulb.edu AND hwalker@csulb.edu with the subject: Art110-EC-MOCA LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) 
LACMA has a number of rotating temporary exhibitions and a fairly huge permanent collection that's always on exhibition. Here you can
see the sweep of centuries of art all in one building. Since it's their permanent collection you should be able to take photos in it... but I think I heard something about LACMA's regrettably authoritarian photo policies. No worries! Just outside and below the "plaza" with all the museum buildings is a sculpture garden... so take a photo of yourself with the LACMA sculpture garden sculpture of your choice. For your write-up, I'll give you free reign on this one. There's a lot of art there between the permanent and the traveling exhibitions. Find something that speaks to you. You can talk about what it says to you or how it makes you feel, but also try to use some of the new vocabulary you've just acquired in chapters 2 and 3 - the Formal Elements and Design. • Be sure to use THIS LINK to submit your EC email for the LACMA trip. • If it is impossible for you to use the link above then email your submission to: gzucman@csulb.edu AND nprice@csulb.edu with the subject: Art110-EC-LACMA March (due by April 1st) UCI Beall Center for Art and Technology 
As we go through the sweep of history in this class we'll look at a lot of paintings and sculptures. These traditional media have had
an incredible life and they continue to be relevant and vibrant today. None the less, there is a powerful energy in art that utilizes
the technology of our time... in the art of our time. The UCI Beall Center for Art and Technology focuses on works at the interscetion of this contemporary art and technology zeitgeist. If you get really excited by this stuff you might want to think about the UCI Arts Computation Engineering program. The current exhibition at The Beall Center is: 5 til 12 by Knifeandfork 5 til 12 is an immersive narrative installation that explores the fragile human ego using evolutionary algorithms and game-theory. Through user identification technology (RFID), interactive video-based characters with complex personalities develop in direct response to audience participation over the 2- month duration of the exhibition." I'm not sure about the photo policy at The Beall Center, but I think things there are, in general, pretty casual. In the past students have brought back images from their exhibitions. If you do have trouble with photos inside there's still lots outside for you to shoot. You could just stand outside the building and take a photo of you with the name of the building above your head. Also, famed Vietnam Veteran's Memorial designer Maya Lin designed the arts courtyard at UCI - it just opened a couple of months ago. Your textbook has a feature on Maya Lin on p195. So while you're at UCI you could also take a photo of yourself in her courtyard. Just down from the Beall Center is a fountain and some whispering rocks that she designed. For your 300 words you should probably start by describing what's going on in 5 till 12. Then you can give your reaction to the Art and Technology in this work. Do they integrate to make a greater whole? A moving work? Or is it a gimmicky project that'll just be boring and stale once the technology becomes more common. Painting has been around for millennia... what do you think about art that uses new technology? • NOTE: This exhibition closes on March 15! • Be sure to use this link to submit your EC email for the Beall Center trip. • If it is impossible for you to use the link above then email your submission to: gzucman@csulb.edu AND hwalker@csulb.edu with the subject: Art110-EC-Beall Center Museum of Jurassic Technology 
The Museum of Jurassic Technology is probably the most "unique" museum you'll visit this semester! I don't want to say too much about the
place because I'd like you to just go and experience it as it comes to you. Some of you might love it. Some of you might hate it. One thing
I'll mention is, remember when we talked briefly about Wassily Kandinsky and his viewing of Monet's wheatstacks? I told you that he hated
the paintings at first... but later took great inspiration from them. If you're confused or annoyed by MJT you might ask yourself why?
What do you expect a museum to be? Is this somehow different? Does it make you rethink what a museum is? What the function of a museum is?You may or may not find the museum challenging conceptually... but you'll almost certainly find it challenging photographically! It's really dark in there! However, your predecessors last semester took their greatest photos there -- something to be said for photographic adversity I suppose. They'll let you shoot whatever you want. They'd prefer you didn't use flash, but you can probably do whatever you need to. If you're shooting in a dark place be sure to brace the camera and yourself. You can hold a pretty long exposure if you're careful. Upstairs in the Tea Room there is more light and the window light there is that fabulous "Vermeer Lighting" that we've mentioned a bit and will talk more about later. The photo requirement for MJT is that it has to be INSIDE the museum... outside in front of the sign doesn't count. Otherwise... go nuts! Submit a photo of yourself anyplace in the museum you like. For your serious, university level, 300 word write-up you should talk about how this place functions. What is it a museum of? Does it in fact cause you to rethink the nature of the museum? What do we collect? Why do we collect? What is the nature of history? • Be sure to use THIS LINK to submit your EC email for the MJT trip. • If it is impossible for you to use the link above then email your submission to: gzucman@csulb.edu AND nprice@csulb.edu with the subject: Art110-EC-MJT Art Night Pasadena - Friday, March 10th, 6pm - 10pm 
Have I got a special deal for you! One night only! 13 Arts institutions in Pasadena are having a big night and you're not only invited,
but you can (theoretically, at least) score up to 20 big ones for yourself. I'm offering 7 points for a great 300 word write-up PLUS
1 point each for a photo of yourself at as many of the 13 participating institutions as you can get to. They have a free shuttle going
between all the venues, so if you get there early enough you should be able to hit a bunch.PHOTOS: Any image that clearly locates you at as many of the 13 institutions as you make it to. And don't forget to throw in some kewl photos of yourself on the shuttle! And maybe having some food. 300 WORDS: If you do go to a bunch of places, don't try to write them all up - it'll be too watered down. So pick 2 or 3 or at most 4 places and talk about them. How are they the same? How are they different? Does the work they're showing work "in unison" or "in opposition" to the work at other venues? How do you respond to the work? Does the blur of collecting photos supersede any real sense of the art? Or do you find yourself viscerally different in the different locations? • NOTE: One night only! Friday, March 10th, 6pm - 10pm! • Be sure to use this link to submit your EC email for the Pasadena trip. • If it is impossible for you to use the link above then email your submission to: gzucman@csulb.edu AND hwalker@csulb.edu with the subject: Art110-EC-Pasadena CSULB Art Galleries - Jocelyn Foye, MFA Sculpture - Sunday, March 19th, 6pm 
I've got an awesome EC deal 4U. It's convenient AND easy AND filled with compelling content! Jocelyn Foye is a candidate for the MFA degree
in sculpture here at CSULB. Her thesis exhibition opens in the CSULB Art Department Gallery complex on Sunday night.Actually, we have art openings every Sunday night of the semester... and the really cool thing about student openings is that everybody's so happy they're finally graduating that they make a big celebration of the thing and fill the place with yummy (and, uh, free) food! So, for YOU, the still at it student... it's a kewl chance to see what your peers are thinking about... to see how your CSULB colleagues are expressing themselves... AND get some Sunday night food out of it! The CSULB Art Department's FIVE! galleries are located between buildings FA2 and FA3. As you exit our classroom, UT-108... you're staring at FA1... if you walk through it the next building is FA2... if you walk through it and turn Left... you'll shortly find yourself in the Fine Arts Courtyard... in the middle of the 5 galleries. Okay, so anyway, Jocelyn Foye's MFA thesis show opens Sunday night. Her work has some kinship to Eva Hesse's (1936-1970) work, which is a sort of "post-minimalism." Hesse layered highly visceral autobiographical elements onto abstract / minimal sculptures. Jocelyn Foye's sculptures have taken on a "performance art" element, but one that is also very much about the production of sculptural objects. Sunday night she'll be presenting Wrestling in Clay, Round 2 at the CSULB Gatov Gallery. At 7pm sharp there will be an officiated wrestling match between Dave Cory and Greg Mocilnikar... on a 12-foot diameter ring of clay! After the exhibition she'll make a casting from the clay thus preserving the tracings of their match. Also on exhibition in the Gatov gallery will be the casting produced from a previous clay match (Round 1, natch!) So... here's my super deal for you... for this EC ONLY... you don't have to write anything! Just show up with your clicker... I'll have the laptop out from 6:00pm to 6:40pm... I'll just be sitting on a big stone in the courtyard... just walk up and click-in and bam... 6 points of EC for you! What's that you say? You want even more points?? Okay... for 2 points each... submit photos of Yourself with 1-Jocelyn Foye, 2-Dave Cory, 3-Greg Mocilnikar. So, for a click and 3 pictures you could get up to 12 points! NOTE: I make you no guarantees that any or all 3 will be available or willing to take a picture with you... but I'm gonna guess that your chances are pretty good... also... since I want to see the match too... I will be closing up the laptop right at 6:40... so if you want the 6 points, be sure to get there before then! And, of course: Make REALLY sure to bring your clicker! And make REALLY REALLY sure to put your clicker back in your backpack afterward!!! • NOTE: One night only! Sunday, March 19th, 6pm! • Be sure to use this link to submit your EC email for the CSULB Jocelyn Foye exhibition. • If it is impossible for you to use the link above then email your submission to: gzucman@csulb.edu with the subject: Art110-EC-Foye April (due by May 1st) Museum of Jurassic Technology I'm holding MJT over for a second month! It's a great museum that I'd like more of you to see AND together with the Nomadic Museum you'll really get a big push-and-pull, a point and counterpoint on the concept of art and exhibition. See above for details on the MJT trip. ONE DIFFERENCE... for MJT April from MJT March... the photo requirement is the same as above, and you use the same link from above to submit your MJT EC... BUT... the write up for MJT is different this month. For your 300 words of MJT for April... now that you've experienced the museum and thought about the exhibits and the sensibility of the museum, it's your turn to design an exhibit. Write a 300 word proposal / description of a new exhibit for MJT. Describe what you're including in the museum, how the display of it should look, how it fits with the rest of the museum's collection, what you think the visitor will experience when they see your exhibition. The Nomadic Museum - Santa Monica Pier 
I can't wait to see what you think of this place! Remember our whole conversation on "beauty"... Bouguereau vs. de Kooning
and all that... Rachel Resnick's comment that "happy / cheesy endings aren't the human condition?" Well this exhibition
features lots of "happy-cheesy"... so... you guys will probably love it!! :+)Gregory Colbert's images of "native people" in physical-mental-spiritual harmony with "wild animals" certainly represent a world we wish we lived in... I suppose they're "poetic" in that way. Certainly they don't feature the "truth" of a Rachel Resnick story or a Willem de Kooning painting. I hesitate to tell you that I found the exhibition insipid - I should let you experience it for yourself - but I do suspect you're going to admire the dreamy images, so a little a priori counterpoint probably won't hurt. To that end here's a 4:24 MP3 audio clip from Art Talk on KCRW. I should also note that while I many not be a fan of Gregory Colbert's photography, I'm quite impressed with Shigeru Ban's architecture. The structure he designed sits on the beach-front parking-lot adjacent to the Santa Monica Pier. The setting is majestic, but more importantly his use of old shipping containers as building materials is quite amazing. I'm not sure Colbert's photographs are the best content for a "Nomadic Museum," but Ban certainly has created an ideal building for it. So go to the Nomadic Museum and tell me if you believe it and whether or not that matters. Is Colbert giving us some truth about life? Is truth what you want from art? Or do you want a romantic vision of the world you wished you lived in? If the romantic vision is inconsistent with your real world, what do you do with the discrepancy? Or is the real world so awful that you want to escape it through art? Or does such art take our eye off the ball... make us content with a world we might otherwise be able to make better? For your accompanying photo... you probably can't take anything inside the Nomadic Museum (of course, I won't stop you from trying :+) But a photo of you outside the museum, in front of Shigeru Ban's giant, amazing structure will be great. And, hey, while you're there, why don't you walk a few feet over and also take a photo of yourself running down the Santa Monica Pier! • Be sure to use THIS LINK to submit your EC email for the Nomadic Museum trip. • If it is impossible for you to use the link above then email your submission to: gzucman@csulb.edu AND nprice@csulb.edu with the subject: Art110-EC-Nomadic Brewery Artwalk - Saturday, April 22nd, Noon - 1pm 
Have I got another special deal for you! One afternoon only! The world's largest art colony, The Brewery, conveniently located in Downtown Los Angeles, is
having it's annual open house... and we're invited! The Brewery, a former Pabst Blue Ribbon Brewery, is an "artists' loft space" where zillions of artists,
designers and others live and work. Some use it as "day" studio space... others work downstairs and live "upstairs" (in the loft.)For this trip ONLY - no write up required! Just show up on Saturday April 22 between noon and 1pm. I'll be in the central food area with the laptop. Bring your clicker and click in for 6 points of EC. Of course you'll want more than 6 points... so bring your camera too... I'm offering 2 points each for photos of you AND: •Kelly Reemsten •Miripolsky •Michael Salerno •Psycho Girlfriend So 6 points for the click and up to 8 points for photos... a 14 point trip for you! Reemsten, Miripolsky and Salerno are all painters. As usual I don't guarantee that you can find them or that they'll be willing to take a photo with you... but your chances look good. Psycho Girlfriend is Kasey McMahon and Vanessa Bonet; they're "wearable art" designers (fashion designers.) I'll give you 2 points for a photo of you with either or both of them AND if you can convince them to let you wear their stuff in the photo... I'll give you 2 extra points for wearing an accessory and up to 6 extra points for wearing a complete outfit! So... if you have a little ambition... you could wind up with 20 points on the day. Who knows... maybe you'll even find some art or fashion to buy for your psycho girlfriend! (or at least have lunch there...) • NOTE: One day only! Saturday, April 22, noon - 1pm! to click / artwalk: 10a - 6p • Be sure to use this link to submit your EC email for the Brewery trip. • If it is impossible for you to use the link above then email your submission to: gzucman@csulb.edu with the subject: Art110-EC-Brewery Watts Towers 
We heard the story of Simon Rodia and the Watts Towers in class, and you can read it in even more detail in signs on the
sides of the towers when you're there, so I'll skip the story and cut to your write-up:For the Watts Towers EC, you should be Simon Rodia. Explain yourself! Why 33 years on 1 work of art? What did it mean to you? What should it mean for us? What do you hope visitors will get from it? After 33 years of work, why did you walk away without even asking for a dime for the property - you just handed the key to a neighbor and left - why? Why did you never again come to even glimpse the work you spent a third of a century creating? How do you feel about the time that the City of Los Angeles almost demolished the towers? What do you think of your towers' status today as a National Historic Monument? For your photo: it should be a photo of you INSIDE the fence - yes, you actually have to go when they're open and pay your 5 dollars and see the thing. Photos of you standing in the street in front of the towers outside the fence are not acceptable. The tours are at specific and limited times on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, so be sure to check our Watts Towers Web Page for location and times. • Be sure to use THIS LINK to submit your EC email for the Watts Towers trip. • If it is impossible for you to use the link above then email your submission to: gzucman@csulb.edu AND nprice@csulb.edu with the subject: Art110-EC-Watts Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena 
A few of your got to see this museum in our first "guided tour" at the beginning of the semester,
and a few more of you got to see it at the Pasadena Art Night. I'm adding it as our last new EC
so more of you can have a chance to see it. The Norton Simon is definitely not the place to go to see the
art of the 21st century, but it offers a really nice tour through the art of the 14th - 20th centuries.
If you're one of the folks who already got EC for the guided tour or for Art Nite and you'd like to go again for
even more EC, you're welcome to do so.Among the museum's collection are really a lot of paintings and sculptures of ballerinas by Edgar Degas. For your photo you should take a picture of yourself next to a Degas ballerina painting or sculpture and you should be doing the same pose/movemment as the ballerina. Really get into this - try to feel the bodily sense of the pose/movement. You can split your 300 words into 3 parts: first be the ballerina and talk about the physical, visceral, emotional, spiritual, bodily sense of being in that ballet moment. Then be Degas and explain what you see in the moment. What draws you to the ballet? Why did you make so many images of this sort? Is there something spiritual or sublime or ordinary or elevated about the ballet? Or did you just have a thing for young girls? Or maybe all of the above? Finally, be the ballerina looking at Degas' painting or sculpture of yourself. Are you embarrassed? Proud? How does this external view of a frozen moment compare with your internal experience of the flow of dance? Does Degas' portrait of you tell you something about yourself that you didn't previously know? • Be sure to use this link to submit your EC email for the Norton Simon trip. • If it is impossible for you to use the link above then email your submission to: gzucman@csulb.edu AND hwalker@csulb.edu with the subject: Art110-EC-Norton Spring Break - April 10 - 16 (due by April 18) My Big Spring Break Art Adventure! I know some of you are heading off to big Spring Break adventures... London... New York... up the coast... etc... some of you may be staying local, but you'll at least want to get out of the house! So here's a big freeform art adventure for you. Go to a museum. Go to an art installation. Go find art! Since it's your break... I won't make you write anything on this... just go take some seriously amazing, kick butt photos. As always, I'd like to see you and the art in the photo. Be creative. Blow us away. These photos are due by Tuesday, April 18 and we'll look at them on Thursday April 20. As always, you're not required to have your photos shown in class if you don't want to... just add "DON'T SHOW" to the end of the subject line in your email. I won't show them or blab on about them, but I'd still like your permission to put them up for 5 seconds on our final giant slide show at the end. Have a great spring break!... take some great art photos! • Be sure to use this link to submit your EC email for Spring Break. • If it is impossible for you to use the link above then email your submission to: gzucman@csulb.edu with the subject: Art110-EC-SpringBreak Anytime (due by the last day of class - May 11th) Student's choice of one of: UAM / LB-MOA / MOLAA 
Pick one of these three great local museums. If you can't take a photo of yourself anywhere inside then you in front of the building
or maybe in front of one of their outdoor sculptures will be great. Start your write-up by describing the museum/exhibition
overall... what's your impression? What do you think is their message/mission? How are they crafting your experience? Then talk
about the specific exhibition you see. Then pick one or two individual works and describe the work in detail. Talk about line, shape,
color, texture... meaning. Finish by telling me what work out of the entire museum you'd most like to take home with you - why?• Be sure to use this link to submit your EC email for this museum trip. • If it is impossible for you to use the link above then email your submission to: gzucman@csulb.edu AND hwalker@csulb.edu with the subject: Art110-EC-Beach Student's choice of any one museum anywhere 
Total freedom. Any one art museum anywhere! You pick. You decide what the photo should be. You decide what the write-up should be.
Your choice. Total freedom. Make it good!• Be sure to use this link to submit your EC email for this trip. • If it is impossible for you to use the link above then email your submission to: gzucman@csulb.edu AND nprice@csulb.edu with the subject: Art110-EC-ANY |
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