Public Art class 2

Week 2 (Feb. 5) – lecture, history and context of public art in and design of Grant Park.

Asn. 1 due.

Introduction to Project 1: War memorials

Invitation: John Rich, Producer, TICTOC Performance Series

Tracy Taylor, Manifest coordinator and Project Room director

Kimo Williams, AEMM faculty and former Director of the Vietnam Veterans Art Museum (18th and Indiana) on the Chicago Vietnam Veterans War Memorial

Reading for next week: Robins, Kevin. "Cyberspace and the World We Live In". The Cybercultures Reader. Bell, David and Kennedy, Barbara M. Routledge. 2000. [[1]]

Grads: Willis, Holly. “The Unexamined Second Life Isn’t Worth Living: Virtual Worlds and Interactive Art”. Afterimage, 35.2, pp. 13 - 16

resources:

• obelisk [[2]]
• Lingam/Yoni: [[3]]
• sacred space: rangoli [[4]]
• Great Man Theory [[5]]
• Howard Zinn and the Peoples' History [[6]]
• Native Americans in Chicago [[7]]
• copyrighting of public space [[8]]

War Memorials:

• Alternative: [[9]] [[10]]
• Vietnam: [[11]] [[12]] [[13]] [[14]]
• Tienanmen square [[15]]
• Haymarket [[16]] [[17]]

history and war memorial presentation [[18]]