ANNOUNCEMENTS

On this announcement board //anyone// can add //any// type of news, event, emotional outpour, or confession that is relevant to any of the topics brought up in our group's meetings. I (Chris) will be announcing as frequent as possible about important information for the group among various other things I find interesting or important. Please try and keep posted!

02.10.08: Sunday go to meeting day...cold here chris....probably there too.....i dont have good internet connect at home and the weather is keeping me from the studio....be back later, uber

02.05.08: Looking for the site chris wrote of in the email re read the first part of bell in anticipation.....for bell who is the last artist to have "the authority" who sets the standard for him? ha pcasso until cubism the young picasso would seem the last .... amasterful realist with with strong poetic and narative skills beautifying and ennobelling often those that are just meeting their basic needs .....


 * 01.28.08:** *INFORMAL MEETING* This **Wednesday, January 30th at 4:30pm**, we will meet at the **Phoenix Coffee on Lee Road** to discuss the Daniel Bell essay. Instead of having a screening of the Zizek! film, I will make copies for everyone to own so you can watch it anytime you want...I cannot find a good place to screen it for now. But, the good news is that check out my blog, I uploaded some clips from the movie on Youtube concerning the quote I brought up in yesterday's meeting. Make sure to bring the essay with you on Wednesday, see you soon!

[|Phoenix Coffee] 2287 Lee Road Cleveland Hts, OH 44118 (216) 932.8227

[|Zizek!] the movie

and of course, info about [|Mr. Slavoj Zizek]


 * 01.16.08:** *INFORMAL MEETING* For next coming **Friday, January** **18th** **at 6pm**, I propose that we have an informal meeting at SPACES to see the exhibition [|Phenomena(I)]. The show is about the crossing over of the art and science disciplines; what do both artists and scientists share in their quests of encoding reality? At 6pm artist Christa Donner will give a lecture on her work with the opening reception following. Please try come a little early so we can catch the lecture. Hope to see you there!


 * 01.02.08:** I do nominate the def of Art by Bierce as a reading..... esp. the lines and inly edify to learn that two half-hairs joined so and so as art can do have sweeter values and grace more fit then nature's hairs that never have been split.....yours ignoramously, uber


 * 12.16.07:** The blizzard kept everyone home for our last meeting, Sunday December 16th. Therefore, since I will be out of town December 23rd, we must discuss the readings for last meeting **Sunday, December 30th**. Greenberg's //Modernist Painting// and Foster's //Repost: 1982// will be the readings for this date. See you then.

soooo who is loooooking nooooo one it seems let me cite the pre post modern again.... ambrose bierce from the devil's dictionary: Art, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S. P. One day a wag--- what would the wretch b e at? Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT And said it was god's name! Straight arose Fantastic priests and postulants (with shows, And mysteries, and mummeries, and hymns, And disputations dire that lamed ttheir limbs) To serve his temple and maintain the fires , Expound the law, manipulate the wires. Amazed, the populace the rites attend, Believe whate'er they cannot comprehend, And, inly edified to learn that two Half-hairs joined so and so ( as Art can do) Have sweeter values and a grace more fit Then Nature's hairs that never have been split, Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts, And sell their garments to msupport the priests.

ah frinds let me cite an ancient....Ambrose Bierce....so pre post modern.....hey there's anothern phrase we can coin...."pre post modern"heeeere's Ambrose: Monosyllabic, adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying Their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate goo-googling. The words are commonly Saxon--that is to say, words of a barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most elementary senyiments and emotions. The man who writes in Saxon Is the man to use an ax on. quoted from: "The Devil's Dictionary" just kiddding still haven't read th foster yet just practicing right know on how to post on this page

saw hal foster in a beer can dream ha ha

do you know celine people i saw Lyotard cited celine as an influence no greater novel then his 1st

we must coin the word cyber-modernism....lets decide what it means

[|MODERNIST MASTERS] link here
 * 12.02.07:** *INFORMAL MEETING* For next coming **Sunday, December 9th**, I propose that we have an informal meeting at The Cleveland Museum of Art **at 2pm i****n the lobby**. The show currently on display is titled __Modern Masters__. I hear it is mostly painting, but these works come directly from what we are studying: those artists that were part of the Modern era and influenced by Modernist themes. It should be a good visit, I highly recommend we all go!

[|Cleveland Museum of Art] 11150 East Boulevard Cleveland, Ohio 44106 216-421-7340 info@clevelandart.org


 * 11.27.07: *IMPORTANT*** The next meeting date is Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 3pm. See you there!


 * 11.12.07: *IMPORTANT*** I just realized that I will be out of town for the next coming meeting (Sunday, November 26th). I am going to talk to SPACES and see if I can change the date for another day during the week; either before or after that Sunday. I will drop everyone an email soon with more details, and I will also ask for dates that are best for everyone. Hopefully we can work it out. Stay posted!


 * 10.28.07:** Ok, so yesterday there was only 3 of us at the meeting including myself. C'est la vie. Since we were unable to discuss the readings, I am going to push the ones I had posted for last meeting (yesterday, Oct. 28) for the meeting coming up in 2 weeks (Sunday, Nov.11). Thus, there is no need to read the third set of readings unless you want to. Hope the turn out is better next time. Also, it'd be awesome if you guys want to come to the museum on Sunday 14th!


 * 10.20.07:** Concerning the informal meeting on Sunday- My dates were off, and it turns out the last day of the art show at CSU is today rather than Sunday. So, I am going to have to cancel the informal meeting, sorry guys! However, if anyone has time I recommend you check it out, its got that po-mo flavor we all crave! Here is the [|LINK] to the CSU's gallery website.


 * 10.19.07:** Sorry I haven't announced until now, but it has been quite busy getting all the readings finally worked out. However, they are posted, so enjoy. I know it looks like a lot of material, but most are under 10 pages. To get them, go to the READINGS page on this site.


 * 10.14.07:** chris is cool