Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Sunday, November 6, 2016
Visiting Artist: Ann Millet-Gallant
Ann Millet-Gallant came to the school to talk about her book, The Disabled Body in Contemporary Art.
In the lecture, she went over how disabilities are an aspect of human diversity and social identity. It really questions social norms and how we perceive what "normal" is. She used a various of artists as examples, such as Mary Duffy, Frida Kahlo, Sandie Yi, Saartie Baartman, Marc Quinn, and more. She explained the different disabilities, such as deformity, dwarfism, and gigantism, and how it can be used to empower people (such as Sandie Yi's "Armed and Beautiful" which has her control how her audience is looking at her; how they're looking at her on her terms).
Overall, this lecture was going over the diversity of disabilities as well as bring awareness to them.
In the lecture, she went over how disabilities are an aspect of human diversity and social identity. It really questions social norms and how we perceive what "normal" is. She used a various of artists as examples, such as Mary Duffy, Frida Kahlo, Sandie Yi, Saartie Baartman, Marc Quinn, and more. She explained the different disabilities, such as deformity, dwarfism, and gigantism, and how it can be used to empower people (such as Sandie Yi's "Armed and Beautiful" which has her control how her audience is looking at her; how they're looking at her on her terms).
Overall, this lecture was going over the diversity of disabilities as well as bring awareness to them.
Visiting Artist: John Harlan Norris
In John Harlan Norris's artist lecture, it revolved on the progression of the meaning behind his work. He goes to explain about his influences in his childhood: Star Wars, music albums, pop culture (or as much as you can get in rural Kentucky). During his undergraduate year, he discovered how much he enjoyed traditional painting, but he also was interested in pop culture (and how disposable it was).
Before progressing to graduate school, he went to Brooklyn, NY. He discovered that he works a lot better in remote places as it helps with his creativity.
In graduate school, the items in his still life became more animated. He began to assemble these objects into more humanoid shapes. He also did his thesis connecting paintings and sound together (connection to music albums).
During the years 2009-11, he did more portraitures. But... the paintings made too much sense for his liking. So he removed the environment, he removed what pinpointed things into reality, he deconstructed the scene a bit more. He's still uncertain about the meaning, but it connected with him. And he was interested in the uniformity in his pieces, but also how the details were different (even arranged some of his paintings in a grid format to support the idea of unity).
Before progressing to graduate school, he went to Brooklyn, NY. He discovered that he works a lot better in remote places as it helps with his creativity.
In graduate school, the items in his still life became more animated. He began to assemble these objects into more humanoid shapes. He also did his thesis connecting paintings and sound together (connection to music albums).
During the years 2009-11, he did more portraitures. But... the paintings made too much sense for his liking. So he removed the environment, he removed what pinpointed things into reality, he deconstructed the scene a bit more. He's still uncertain about the meaning, but it connected with him. And he was interested in the uniformity in his pieces, but also how the details were different (even arranged some of his paintings in a grid format to support the idea of unity).
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
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[Career Services] Legally Protect Your Work
Jack Shelton - International Sales Lawyer
Laws of Copyright
Exclusive rights to:
Laws of Copyright
Exclusive rights to:
- reproduce artwork
- create derivative works
- distribute copies
- perform work publicly
- showcase work publicly
- perform work publicly by digital audio (sound only)
Creation Copyright
- Original work (modicum of creativity)
- Tangible medium
Can't Copyright
- Single words
- Short phrases
- names
- list ingredients
- list of names
- band names
- but you can Trademark
Joint Works
- % share of work
- no agreement to contrary, partner can grant non-exclusive licenses in copyright to third parties without other partner's permission
Work for Hire
- Person who hires owns copyright
- Artist doesn't own copyright
- employee
- contractor
Not for hire? Can sell intellectual property!
- transfer ownership as a gift, a sale, or succession
- in signed writing
License
- Permission to use work
- Express v implied
- Exclusive (signed writing) v Non-exclusive
Copyright stays as long as the author is alive +70 years
Don't need to register for copyrights... rights.
- bUT registration = benefit
- register before infringement
- attornery's fees and statutory damages covered
Trademark / Service Marks
- Mark that identifies your business as source of service or good
- Prevention from market place
Common Law Trademark - start using mark in commerce trademark
Lanham Act Trademark - register US patent and Trademark office
Strength of Trademark
- Generic (no.)
- Descriptive
- Suggestive
- Arbitrary and Fanciful (strongest)
Trademark
- Domestic protection
- registered = valid
- owner listed = true owner
- not abandoned
Collaboration Agreements
- Contract in writing
- emails are okay, but must express content to terms
- Author's responsibilities
- specific role
- timeline of roles
- obligated to find buyers/licenses
- responsible for distributions and acceptance
- active sentences, not passive
- Rights of each author
- grant non-exclusive licenses?
- credit given how?
- % revenue received?
- Dishonors contract, what now?
- Terminate contract, what are the resulting rights/liabilities?
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