April 19th (20 minutes: Lea, Dana & Elaine presentation: Letters to Aamir.

April 19

We are planning on doing a collage for the poem "Marx Dancing with History Meets Marquez Dancing with Time" by Patrick Lawler. We are taking each section of the poem, the different "radios", and using pictures to do a representation of each one. We may also put some music to it. People will just be able to walk by and look at it.
Melissa, Lindsay, Leah.

 

April 24th

Megan W, on Nancy Spero, artist...

 

 

April 26

Kit Peterson, Sarah Redmond, Chris Wheeler, & John Gest have formed a group for the final project.

Our plan right now is to have a slide show with pictures of war while representative music plays in the background. We also plan on playing some of the poems read by Komunyakaa, and then finish the presentation with a reading of an original poem based off the film Paths of Glory.

 

 

May 1st at 3:30 p.m.

For our project we are choosing to look at the family aspect of war. We plan to photograph a husband/wife reunion, and interview families on film. We are wanting to look at the more human part of all the death.

John Holtzman
Jodie Wagener

 

 

May 1st

Phantom Obsessions
featuring Bourbon Toothpaste
Tuesday May 1st
3:30 Garden Theatre

Phantom Obsessions will meet Tuesday, May 1st at the Garden Theatre.
For those of you who have never been, the Garden Theatre is located
between Gunter and Frasier Hall, mostly in the large field in between.
For more specific directions, the street edge of the Garden Theatre is
at 10th Ave and 18th Street. Just walk into campus from there. If you
want a map, there is an event on facebook under "Phantom Obsessions"
and there is a link to a map there.

Also, our project is interactive, so just as a reminder, please come dressed to get slightly messy and have some fun!
We look forward to seeing you soon!

" An interactive journey with live art as a response to war and trauma."

Tim Jarrell
Brie Vicek

 

May 3rd

Jai-Ayla Sutherland, Stephanie and Katie Hudson are planning on writing a song regarding the topics of the poems we discussed at the beginning of the semester and The Deer Hunter.

We plan to write original lyrics incorporating the two sources and then using the guitar, djembe and piano to enhance the song. We have a great feeling about it and are looking forward to it.

 

 

May 3rd

Kellie Walheim & Sarah Redmond, TBA.

 

May 3rd

Art is immediate, as life itself is immediate and constantly existing in the now. Art was conceiver without boundries by early man in the Pleistocene. The borders between peformer and audience are recent imaginary constructs, nothing but shifting faux butterfly dreams of the Imperialism Project, little more than the crosses, moons and stars of the earlier Abramhic Project. We seek to bring art beyond these imaginary lines and blend it out and thru our various mind-form national states. No performers, no audience members, but both existing at once. As thoughts must be acted upon, so shall we push this idea of Immediacy. We will present, but in the presenting we shall also interact through a variety of visual, oral, and aural representations of the concept of war and its many vicissitudes. In doing this we will actively engage in a form of war so that the illusionary boundries seperating performer from audience can be crosses and abandoned. We stamp nihil upon everything, including spelling.

Signed,

Ollie Moore - Artillery Commander
Tegan Cockrell - Photolyriccommissar
Jason Weiler - Commandant General of 35mm Dreams
Nathan Fuhr - Subcomandante of Ontological Propaganda

 

 

 

My name is Lea Littleford. I was born and raised in this great and beautiful state. I am 18 years old, as of September, and what a wonderful 18 years it has been! I attended a private Christian school all through middle school, then broke free and went to a public high school. There I quickly picked up passions in sports as a varsity athlete on the cross country and soccer teams. I also indulged in theatre and newspaper as thespian president and managing editor of the Chaparral Crier. I am now attending UNC as a Pre-Journalism major with a minor in Communication Studies. My favorite color is green, and I love to get to know new people. I am excited to take this class and would love to work with someone who could put music to my words!

"People will forget what you said,
People will forget what you did,
But people will never forget how you made them feel."
--Maya Angelou

 

My name is Dana Littleford. My major is Elementary Education with a concentration in Fine Arts. I love the arts. All through high school I was active in the Drama club. Because of this, for my final presentation, I would like to do a skit of some sort, or work with someone who would like to make a film and needs actors. If that doesn't work out, I consider myself a amateur poet. I have even had one of my poems published. If it is possible, I could also write a poem for my final project and read it aloud. I love music, and I played the piano up until my Junior year in High school, but I don't have the time nor a piano, so I wouldn't be able to do anything
musical for the final project. I also love art, but am not artistically blessed, so that wouldn't be an option either. Well, I
hope this email opened your eyes to my love for the arts.

 

I'm still not entirely sure what the project IS, but I think it would be interesting to illustrate a poem. I am a visual arts minor and a journalism major, so I do a lot of drawing and painting, but not a lot of creative writing, so maybe pairing with a writer would be best. I'll have a better idea when I know more about the project: Is it a presentation in front of the class? How long is it supposed to be? When will it be due? Will it be about a certain topic or do we choose the topic?

Elaine Maldonado

{Please see updates on the syllabus}

 

My name is Jason Weiler and I am a twenty year old junior here at UNC. Some things about me that might be applicable are that I have been involved in theatre since I was a kid. In high school I began making movies with friends and more recently I have been directing childrens theatre at a small place I helped start up out in Phoenix. I grew up in Phoenix and I guess tried to counter myself its the cultrally dry enviornment. I am a theatre studies major and film minor. I am a love movies to death and have a quiet yet severe passion for Sondheim musicals. I do some writing every so often, but I fear the only person possibly entertained by my writing is me. I can still act if have to (but not to well and not with much confidence). I also know how to film and edit movies in a general sense, but my biggest pleasure is directing at the moment. Some of my work can be viewed on line at http://www.woandco.net/movies.html. Other than that, I love basketball and pasta - and thats all their is to it.

 

I am a visual arts major with an emphasis in art history. I have access to film editing software but have not actually done any film project so would be interested in working with someone on that. However, I think it would be fun to collaborate with someone in any media. I usually paint or photograph so I suppose that would be my 'area'.

-Megan Wahlfeldt

Name: Jon Gest
E-mail: worm3542@gmail.com
Major/minor: Pre-Journalism / Visual Arts

So, I guess I'm supposed to tell you all about myself... To start, I'm very artistic and imaginative. I love to create and inspire. A few of my favorite hobbies include: painting, drawing, listening to music and playing guitar. I am a published poet, as I have a poem in a compilation entitled "Enlightened Shadows" and one in "Speak Up fall 2001". I enjoy writing, and love to write short stories. My favorite one is entitled "Gemini Dream" and is a blog on my myspace page. I also have a page that displays a lot of my artwork, both digital and hand drawn and I have included the URL for that site as well.

I mentioned music. I can't really say that I have a favorite band or style, as I really listen to anything. What I can say, however, is that most of MTV's current musical selections are not to my liking. I remember when MTV played music, as their name implies... I'm getting on a tangent. But anyway, to give you a taste of what I do listen to, here's a short list of some of my current favorites: AFI, Placebo, The Smashing Pumpkins, Rage Against The Machine, Johnny Cash, Old Crow Medicine Show, R.E.M., Beethoven (especially "Moonlight Sonata"), this list really could go on for ever and a half! Artist, Musician, Writer, Free-Thinker. That really about sums me up!

~Jon
www.myspace.com/musicaldesigner
www.melodylee.deviantart.com

 

 

This is the autobiography of Matthew “Ollie” Moore. I was Born in Denver, CO. 1987 at 8lbs of a cesarean section around 7:00 a.m. My learned skills include: classical pianio of eleven years, a drummer of six, and current student of the Tabla’s. I’m a self-proclaimed artist of all trades, no, that doesn’t necessarily mean I’m good at all of them, but I enjoy different veins of artistic expression. the phrase "I think therefore i am", by philosopher Rene Descartes comes to mind as I sit here writing about myself, starting to question my own existence. The truth is that I have many traits that define what I am about, and the things I enjoy, but none of them can tell you who I am. I wish I had a solid, contrived conclusion for everyone to read, but we’re not that simple. . .
yours truly,
Ollie

 

Melissa Davis Bio.

To start off, I am not a very creative person! I have always wished I was. Now I know that being creative is not the criteria for how we decide what final project we do! I suppose I could still do some sort of art project for the final, but I probably will do something I am good at, like a research paper. I am definitely thinking about doing some sort of research project on Kurt Vonnegut. I have read Slaughterhouse-Five and think it is a pretty interesting book. I would like to go deeper into the book to figure out what experiences Vonnegut went though to make him be able to write this book so amazingly. It would be very interesting to me to find out what his life story is. This is probably what I will end up doing for my final project.

 

Jai-Ayla Sutherland

I would love to create some kind of short film for the creative project at the end of the semester. The arts are a very strong influence in my life, and I think that this would be a great way to combine the ideas of the class and present them in one project. There are many different talents that are needed in order to create a film; therefore, I think that this would be a great way to get multiple people involved.

Tegan Cockrell

"Simply put, I am interested in everything. I have been involved in a few artistic collaborations that have involved film-making, photography, poetry and musical performances so I suppose those are my "strengths". Really though, I am all for getting together with a few other people to see what kind of ideas materialize."

 

My name is Jodie Wagener. I am a junior IDLA major emphasis in Fine Arts and a minor in special ed. I am 21 years old and have 2 sisters. Artistically, I am best with photography and digital photography. Im not really sure what else there is to tell.

 

My name is Chris Wheeler and I'm a Junior Theatre Studies student. I'm interested in filmmaking (low quality due to the resources available to me...), writing, editing film, storyboards, acting, and theatre among other things. I'm not really sure what I'd like to do for this final project, but I am leaning in a more creative direction, rather than a research project.

 

Hello, I'm Brie Vicek and quite obviously I'm in your Mind class this semester. I come from a very heavy background in the performing and visual arts. Actually I've been creating since I can remember - It's just something I enjoy doing. I've worked with the Denver Center for Performing Arts downtown, and also in many local art galleries. My real passion is for poetry - I write almost daily and have been published in literary magazines.

Seeing how all these things work together, I am truly living my life in them as a freshman in the Design & Technology Theatre and Graphic Arts Majors. I have a continued love of learning and a great curiosity which is why I'm hoping to work with others, perhaps artists in a different discipline, (even math, biology, anything) to really come up with a very insightful, creative and new project this semester. So if anyone is looking for a project partner or even a study buddy, please let me know! I look forward to getting to know you better.

Random Facts - I'm a master level scuba diver, have played the violin for 13 years, I speak French and I love to have fun!

 

My name is Lindsay Burleson.

I am currently a freshman and am in between majors. I have played the clarinet for 7 years, played a small part in a play once and have also taken a beginners theatre class.

I love being creative, whether its making a poster, playing music, or trying to act. I would rather do a project with a group than by myself, and would rather not do a research project. I'm up for about anything.

I currently live on central campus and would prefer working with people who also do, but it's not that big of a deal.

Anything else, just send me an email.
fhburlie6@hotmail.com

Lindsay

 

Katie Hudson

For the final project I would like to participate in making a film or some sort of creative project like that. I am really interested in film and this would be a good oppurtunity to collaborate with others in our class to all work towards this common goal. Plus it would be good to learn from others that have different interests than me.

 

A blurb concerning Nathan Fuhr

Autobiographies are essentially narcissistic and egomaniacal
masturbation. Grab some lube and get ready.

Ten unrelated facts concerning the aforementioned individual:

1 – True noise may be the last refuge and hope of music, therefore NF has a bad habit of listening to static in the form of Merzbow recordings. If he requires something different he listens to anything from Gypsy Dances to D-beat to Gamelan to Neo-folk. If more static is required he listens to Nordvargr or Mz.412. The purpose of the above statement is to insist that noise in all its forms is music while being anti-music and maybe the truest expression of society being unable to cope with rapid changes in its culture.

2 – This is a short statement. NF still believes in DADA.

3 – He is currently searching for artists of all stripes to make a full multimedia experience. Noise + Music + Poetry/Prose recital + Internet Broadcast + Wayang Kulit + Film Projection + Visual Art + Typographic Insanity + Shaivite Yoga + Life = Poetic Terrorism. Sensory overload is useful for making a point.

4 – There are elements of Russian Futurism in all 10 facts. The most notable being the use of autobiography as ego/art manifesto.

5 – The Temporary Autonomous Zone is perhaps the most useful and useless book ever written next to Tzara’s Seven Lampistries.

[This has been removed due to unforeseen Governmental Censorship]

7.5 – NF insists the reading of Trotsky and Nagarjuna. Artists only concerned with making money and perpetuating the horror of consumer artifacts and desecrating the essential anti-capitalist nature of ART are asked to purchase small pink daisies. Preferably the kind that dispenses water in streams for personal protection from the eventual internal collapse of their void/form
void-form/form-form/form-void/void-void constructs.

8 – “No one cares about your emo poetry.” This includes not masking it under the guise of hardcore, straightedge, or any other form of music ending in the suffix “-core”. Jesus and Shakespeare have phoned in their concurrence to this statement.

9 – NF works in following mediums: the written word, defaced type, PBR, spraycans, markers, bricks, gin and tonics, static, old recordings, chemical fires, vinyl albums, Sunn amps, spoken word, riot instigation, and failing vocal chords.

10 – He believes in failed dreams, the Upanishads, the Ramayana, Chaos, and Ganesha’s broken tusk.

* Spelling errors abound and are necessary for the formation of amodern language.

 

John Holtzman

My interests are pretty general. I like music, books, and films. I've played drums for a couple of different bands recently but sadly, neither of them worked out. I've written some poetry for classes, but haven't written any in awhile and I would like to get started on that again. I've also done some acting. I was in quite a few plays in high school and I was in a short film directed by a student here at UNC that appeared in the UNC Short Film Festival. I've recently gotten interested in Photoshop and I'm learning, but it will be a long time before I can do anything really unique with it. This is kind of strange, but I really like cooking too. I'm looking forward to the creative nudge that this class could give me.

 

My name is Leah Koliha and I'm a sophomore at UNC, majoring in the Secondary Education Program for Mathematics. I love all forms of art. In the past I've, at least attempted: drawing, photography, several forms of dance, on-stage performance as well as PR and general tech stuff behind the curtain, I used to write fictional short stories, jewelry making, choir, and some film making which never amounted to much. I love making collages and being creative visually, so I already have a few ideas for the project ifanyone would be interested in that type of creative thinking.For the final project I am looking at creating a collage, mostly of black/white photography, although I would be open to other mediums as well.

NEW:
In the collage I was thinking of picking a poem or scene from the book to
recreate using modern images. I want to try to relate the feeling of war to
everyday things we see. I like the idea of using all this snow we have to
create a dark, kind of lifeless look to the collage, so I'd be willing to
get started right away. I would love some help in photoshopping or more
skill in photography/other art forms than I have (which isn't much), so if
anyone's interested I would love to talk to you!

 

 

 

Hello, my name is Kit Peterson. I'm a sophomore and my major is Theater Studies. I love theater and anything to do with the arts. I've been acting since I was 4, and I've have the pleasure and opportunity of doing many other things in the theater as well from tech to dramaturgy. I am currently working on the UNC production Bacon, and I'm very excited about it. I love to read, and write, both are a very strong passion of mine, though my spelling wouldn't always tell the same tale.....I'd like to consider myself a pretty light hearted person, and always open to almost anything and everything. I always try to find a good laugh, and I love debating and thinking metaphorically and all those wonderful things philosophers tend to do (though I really don't consider myself a philosopher, I just like acting like one). Well, that's basically me in a nutshell, so far this class seems to be really fun and engaging and I look forward to what else it has in store and getting to know all of you better!

 

My name is Stephanie Hudson. I was born and raised in Wyoming and I am a freshman and UNC this year. My major is pre- visual arts and I really enjoy art. I love working in a number of mediums, but charcoal is my favorite so far. :) As far as this creative project goes, I would really like to try my hand at doing some kind of film project and portray what we learned from class in a visual way that is not in a drawing format.

 

My name is Sarah Redmond, and I am a Theatre studies major. I will be auditioning for the Acting program Feb. 10 so wish me luck. I love acting and hope to make a career out of it, I was thinking of doing voice work perhaps (i.e. commercials, videogames, cartoons) As far as acting I have done mainly Shakespeare, I did a season with Boulder’s Upstart Crow TheatreCompany where my final role was Lady Macbeth. I am currently a member of Longmont Theatre’s Taste of Shakespeare group and performed in Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer’s Night Dream over the summer.

*Hint, hint. If someone wants to do a video or skit for the group project I’m in.

I like being artistic in general; I took many art classes at Front Range community college where I got an Associate of Arts degree.

Other things about me:
I am an animal lover and seem to have a strange magnetic attraction with them which I like most of the time.

Heads up, I am weird, everyone I have ever known has told me so especially my mother. I will randomly burst out into song and I come complete with sound effects.

I have ADD, yes I do. I was tested and diagnosed by a Pediatric Neurologist when I was little. However I am determined not to let it stop me from doing well in this class and conquering college!

I am an independent student and I am working my way through college so I work a lot, which means: I need my group to be people who can plan ahead and commit to it, my schedule is tight but if we make plans you can count on me to be there.