LAST LEeeecCCttTTAA!

Today was our last lecture! Sad because I really enjoyed this class!! Kip truly made the lectures so interesting and exciting.  Being my first real art class at UCSB, I just want to say I really enjoyed the teaching style and the material we discussed.  At first looking at the times I thought the lectures were gonna feel like forever, but they really did not at all.  They actually ended up feeling like a half hour or so which is amazing.  Anyways, just wanted to say that being the last lecture and all!  Today we talked about a few different artists.  Yoko Ono was first.  I had not really known anything about her before this lecture so it was definitely interesting to learn about her a bit.  We also talked about Ken Little and Allan Kaprow.  A definition of a type of art we learned about today was Happenings: art from in which action is extracted from the environment, replacing the traditional art object with a performative gesture, such as the "Fluids" project done in 1967.  Then we discussed the works of Kryzysztaf Wodiczko which I found really interesting!  He projects light in public places to make different statements.  Although Kip seemed not to enjoy the women worker's faces projected on their workplace to express the discrimination and unfair work practices, I felt that one very powerful and expressive.  I liked hos the faces were on a sphere like part of the building which gave them a cartoonish but 3D impression.  I also found Laurel Nakadate's work titled 365: A Catalogue of Tears really interesting.  It was interesting to see sadness captured in different ways, different types of sadness really.  And without texts the viewer has no choice but to input their own interpretation upon the photos without really knowing the real motive.  COOL!