The following is a sampling of recent student work:
Reframing the House of Dust – A semester long, multi-part initiative reconsidering Fluxus artist Alison Knowles’ 1967-71 House of Dust project.
In January 2018, CalArts students — in collaboration with CalArts Faculty members Ken Ehrlich and Janet Sarbanes and French curators Sebastien Pluot and Maud Jacquin, as well as Knowles herself — designed and built the House of Glass, a new iteration of the House of Dust. To construct the house, students studied the original poem, the 35-page scroll of tractor-feed computer paper that resides in the CalArts archive, and, along with instructors, chose a different quatrain on which to base a new social sculpture.
The original House of Dust poem, a collaboration between Knowles and James Tenney, was computer-generated in 1967. It demonstrated how programming language — in this instance, Fortran — could be employed in chance operations in art making. Each quatrain of the poem consisted of four lines drawn from lists of language compiled by Knowles, indicating a type of house, a material, a site or situation, a light source, and a category of inhabitants. One quatrain was then “translated” by Knowles into a functional structure, also titled “House of Dust,” which was first sited in a Chelsea housing co-op and then moved to CalArts when Knowles joined the original faculty in 1969.
Student: Mariana Rodela
Class: Introduction to Web-based Art
Assignment: Create a sound piece based on a non-literal response to the question ‘what does the internet sound like?’
Student: Azuoma Nwogu
Class: Introduction to Web-based Art
Assignment: Create a glitch video using original and appropriated imagery and sound.
Student: Chasen Whitson
Class: Unbuilt and Farout: Experiments in Architecture since 1945
Assignment: Create a rendering based on “Twelve Cautionary Tales for Christmas” by Superstudio.
Student: Mei Huang
Class: Introduction to Web-based Art
Assignment: Create digital images Using Only Black and White Triangles, Squares, Rectangles, and Circles.
Student: Alice Deng
Class: Introduction to Web-based Art
Assignment: Create a conceptual prototype for an on-line gaming experiment:
Student: Nimsi Guerrero
Class: Introduction to Web-based Art
Assignment: Create a karaoke video.
Student: Duc Le
Thesis Project: Parking Day
School of Architecture – Woodbury University
Student: Pierre Nguyen
Class: Infrastructure and the imaginary
Assignment: Create an artist book reflecting on class readings and field trips.
Student :Chris Burnett
Class: Infrastructure and the imaginary
Assignment: Create an artist book reflecting on class readings and field trips.
