Kurt Mueller #Remember

Kurt Mueller is a research driven artist.  Mueller is known for his interaction and ability to engage his audience with each piece he does. Through his work he often provokes  consideration of historical actions, events, figures, text and narrative. "Mueller strives toward art that is critically responsive to the social and political conditions of its time," as said by San Antonio's ArtSpace blog. Kurt Mueller used Twitter as his creative connection between his work and audience. He was the selected artist for the twitter-based project space mbgETC. "#Remember" (#mbgETCRemember), 2011, is the experiement using Twitter to (re)issue calls to 'remember'. Mueller is using the act of remembrance through a public outlet, Twitter, and how one's act of remembrance can offer a glimpse into another person. Mueller interacts with his audience by them unknowingly interact with his piece, unscripted. He has a way of disguising his topics he's sharing, so it can be more involving and less intimidating. Mueller is very interested in attaching material to recall memory, identity and create action.


http://www.emvergeoning.com/?cat=2&paged=6

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~crlab/2007_07_interchange/3mueller.html

http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~crlab/2006_07_alone/mueller.html 

Chalk It Out

Project Proposal:
In my own personal opinion, I believe that Chalk is a unique and beautiful medium in art, that is not used as often as I would like to see. So I thought, what better way to publicize this favored medium of mine, than on a campus filled with thousands of students?!
I want a piece of art that will attract all those who walk past it. I want it large, noticeable and impossible to walk past without wanting to be involved. I figured chalk would be a simple way to promote this because everyone is familiar with it, and hopefully no one will be intimidated this 'art' because it is a friendly activity that is easily approachable. I figured it would be hard to have the University approving of a student to paint chalk onto their walls, so I will resort to either the old fashion chalk 'board' or adhesive chalkboard stick on's.

Medium/Vehicle: Chalkboard Wall on campus, whether a small section on a wall, or by a bulletin board with access to chalk for the audience to participate.
Content/Message: To anonymously express one's thoughts, ideas, words & inspirations on a board to ultimately build an impact/connection on another viewer and/or participant.

Barbara Kruger

Identification: Barbara Kruger
Date of Birth: 1945
Home Town: Newark, New Jersey
Location of Art Practice: New York // Los Angeles
Education: Syracuse University, School of Visual Arts & Parson's School of Design in New York. She has taught at the California Institute of Art, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Message: 

Barbara Kruger is an intelligent artist with a powerful message behind each piece of art. "Much of her text questions the viewer about feminism, classicism, consumerism, and individual autonomy and desire, although her black-and-white images are culled from the mainstream magazines that sell the very ideas she is disputing," (Biography, www.barbarakruger.com). Unlike others, Barbara Kruger not only creates art for the eyes, but also for the mind and power of change. Many of her pieces serve as advice and lessons that are direct and straight forward. One example is her piece "Get Out" regarding domestic violence::

Vehicle/Medium:
Kruger is well known for her layering and collage photographs. She mixes and layers found photographs with powerful and most of the time, aggressive, text. She  uses her trademark bold letters (black or white) against a red box to portray her message.
Audience:

Favorite Quote: 
"All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary." Barbara Kruger

Official Twitter Account: @Barbarakruger

Jenny Holzer

1. Identify her message
 Creating truisms by using commonly held truths and cliches. Deliberately displaying challenging opinions, most often being contradicting. Her hope was to sharpen the awareness of all viewers of today's world. I personally believe that Jenny exposes what we are all thinking, but to afraid to say out loud. “Holzer’s works have a strong political emphasis, questioning how information is both controlled and received in the public domain."-Tate Collection's website
2. Identify her medium
Mass media and advertising, eventually leading to electronic displays, such as the giant advertising board in Times Square, New York. 
3. Who is her audience?
Her audience varies upon her placement of each piece of art. When she displays her artwork by using large public electronic displays, she is reaching a larger audience that wouldn't necessarily be exposed to art as often as those who view art in gallery's.

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