Thursday, May 5, 2011

Barbara London Lecture Review

I attended Barbara London's lecture on April 28th when she came to UNR to be a guest curator for the student show. She currently works as the Video and Media curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. In her lecture she talked about many artists I have heard of before, both through Digital Media classes and art I've been interested in outside of school. A few names that really stood out were Nam June Paik, David Bowie, Laurie Anderson and Captain Beefheart. She also discussed her most recent work, "Looking at Music 3.0." She went in detail about Paik's work with TV's how he essentially created the first music video. She said that Paik's work was really a commentary on information presented to us on the TV and how we process and interact with it. Her exhibit, "Looking at Music 3.0" dives into the appropriation in music during the 80's and 90's and music's influence on visual arts, mainly in the NYC area. I really liked her lecture because of how she tied in music with digital art. I'm a huge fan of all sorts of music and the culture associated with it in many different time periods and it was very interesting to hear her take on it and see how she represented it.

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