Caitlin Pupich: ART 350S

Caitlin Pupich DM 350 Lecture 2 Paper         Lecture 2 Paper: Claudia O’Steen             Claudia O’Steen spends a lot of her time conducting first-hand research on the environment. Furthermore, much of her art is inspired by those that went out into the dangerous realm of the Arctic in order to explore, research, and further understanding of nature and the Earth.  These pioneers of exploration influence and drive much of her work and research. With a focus on geology and cartology, she took her own expedition through the Arctic circle. During her trip, she collected images, drawings, stones, and colors while using early techniques to map the color of the sky and chart landscapes. She even used early navigation tools to guide her exploration and to help recreate the experiences of the early explorers. She explored certain elements of the environment, such as the magnetic stone, a...

The History of the Earth: Chapter 5 Beatrix Blaire and the Imagination Revolution By Caitlin Pupich ; 3D prints, paper, cloth, wood, lights Rewind to the early twenty first century. Competition* , the basis of the old economy,  drives powerful product development, wild innovation, and an obsession with marketing, advertising, and material goods.  Suddenly, waiting in line for the next big thing is not just an idea, it’s a culture. In the old world, tech companies struggled to stand out; with such rapid innovation it was hard to reign supreme when new ideas were emerging every day.  Companies began outsteping the law to pull ahead. They started researching new elements, materials, and chemicals to create technology that outperformed anything we could ever imagine; but, innocent consumer interest in technology grew into destructive greed. The companies scavenged any way possible, no matter the consequences, to expand their tech, while consumers* dropped everything...

Caitlin Pupich DM 350 Lecture Paper 1 Lecture Paper/Film Screening 1: Mwangi Hutter This artist is a combination of the names of the husband, Robert Hutter, and wife, Ingrid Mwangi, that make up this dynamic duo. They work as a single entity with the intention of questioning and fighting the singular and limiting notions of identity that much of the world holds, even across cultures. Their work is created through a powerful combination of performance art, videography, and sound.             Some of the first works we viewed were recorded pieces of performance art in which the subject, which would be one of the artists, would interact freely with a public crowd. The first included Ingrid performing both with movement and sound in sewer water. The most interesting element is how the audience chooses to watch and interact with these brash displays. The second was more interactive with the audience; Robert sits in a fenced ar...

Caitlin Pupich DM 350 Gallery Paper Gallery Paper: All the Submarines of the United States by Chris Burden I looked at the work of Chris Burden in his piece titled All the Submarines of the United States of America. This piece was meant to look at the power of the United States that many of us are not even aware of. While  most of us are taught in school that the United States has one of the largest militaries in the world, the scale of what that actually means is often misunderstood or unnoticed. This work creates a physical representation of that by forming identical cardboard replicas for every submarine that the United States had from the late 1980’s, since the work was created in 1987, and suspending them from the ceiling so that they float similarly to a real submarine .  This ends up creating a cloud of 625 submarines.  Furthermore, the name of each United States submarine can be found in a list on the wall next to the submarines. This is an interesting...