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Events: 2009 Art Schedule
Art Summary
Friday, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
"About Time: Art, Duration, and the Transformation of Modern Consciousness"
Speaker: Henry Sayre, Distinguished Professor of Art History, Oregon State University–Cascades Campus, Bend, Oregon
Saturday, 10:30-11:45 a.m.
"Connecting Music Appreciation with the Music Your Students Already Appreciate"
Speaker: Mark Evan Bonds,
Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Friday, February 20th, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
"About Time: Art, Duration, and the Transformation of Modern Consciousness"
Speaker: Henry Sayre, Distinguished Professor of Art History, Oregon State University–Cascades Campus, Bend, Oregon
Once upon a time, we imaged our memory as something resembling a family album, a series of snapshots or stills that captured and held key moments in our histories. Today, as a culture, we image memory differently. We think of it, increasingly, as a series of MPEG downloads of three- or four-minute’s duration running through our imaginations like so many Youtube videos. This is especially true of the young artists who have come of age since the advent of MTV in 1975. And it is true of our students as well. For them, no longer is memory composed of a series of stills. Today it is a series of clips. No longer is the image a unified, coherent, and closed whole; now it is an ensemble of movements, sounds, rhythms, intimations, memories, and desires—aural and visual—all in a constant state of transformation. Memory is no longer static. It is dynamic.
This transformation of modern consciousness has had dramatic consequences for art. It accounts, for one thing, for the increasing ascendancy of time-based media—performance, installation, video, film—in the contemporary art world. But it has other, more profound, implications as well. To fall into time is to fall into history. Time-based media must, of necessity, engage their historical moment, not transcend it. In this, they inspire an aesthetic of social responsibility and engagement, one fully in keeping with the theme of this conference.
Biography:
Henry M. Sayre is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Oregon State University–Cascades Campus in Bend, Oregon. From 2001-03, he served as Associate Provost of Academic and Student Affairs at the Cascades Campus, guiding the new campus through its first two years. In his writing and research, Sayre focuses on the arts and their interrelations, particularly on contemporary genres such as performance and installation. He has won many awards for his teaching and service to the University, and has received numerous grants and fellowships, including three from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1997, he completed production of a multimedia teaching package for art appreciation, funded by a $1.2 million grant from the Annenberg Foundation at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, that includes a 10-part television series, Works in Progress, co-produced with Oregon Public Broadcasting and first aired on PBS in the fall of 1997. He is the author seven books and co-editor of another, including The Visual Text of William Carlos Williams (Illinois University Press, 1983), The Line in Postmodern Poetry (Illinois, 1988), Writing about Art (Prentice Hall, 1989; 6th edition, 2008); A World of Art (Prentice Hall, 1994; 5th edition, 2007), and The Object of Performance: The American Avant-Garde since 1970 (University of Chicago Press, 1989). He most recently published a six-volume 1600-page text entitled The Humanities: Culture, Continuity & Change. His essays have appeared in a wide variety of books and journals, including Visible Language, South Atlantic Quarterly, Massachusetts Review, Georgia Review, Genre, Contemporary Literature, Performing Arts Journal, Columbia Literary History of the United States, World Book Encyclopedia, Critical Terms for Literary Study (Chicago, 1992), Postmodern Genres (Oklahoma, 1988), and Eloquent Obsessions (Duke, 1994).
Saturday, February 21st, 10:30-11:45 a.m.
"Connecting Music Appreciation with the Music Your Students Already Appreciate"
Speaker: Mark Evan Bonds,
Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The music that students study in a typical music appreciation course is usually quite different from the music they listen to for their own pleasure. The challenge for teachers is to tap into the innate passion students have for their own music and connect it to the kinds and styles of music being presented in the classroom. Most music appreciation courses focus on historical contexts and style issues, emphasizing such points as what distinguishes Baroque music from Renaissance music; how jazz differs from classical music; or how various kinds of world musics differ from each other and from Western art music in general. An alternative approach to teaching music appreciation focuses on the elements fundamental to all music, no matter what the time or place: rhythm, melody, harmony, texture, timbre, form, and word-music relationships. Through a course organized around these universal elements, students can better understand how the music they already enjoy relates to many different styles and repertories from both the past and present.
Biography:
Mark Evan Bonds is the Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has taught since 1992. He holds degrees from Duke University (B.A.), Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (M.A.) and Harvard University (Ph.D.) His books include Wordless Rhetoric: Musical Form and the Metaphor of the Oration (1991), After Beethoven: Imperatives of Symphonic Originality (1996), and Music as Thought: Listening to the Symphony in the Age of Beethoven (2006). He has also written two textbooks, both published by Prentice-Hall: A History of Music in Western Culture, now in its third edition, and Listen to This, a new music appreciation textbook for undergraduates in general studies.
Accounting Section Chair: Tracie Nobles, Austin Community College