John Gerrard (b. Dublin, 1974), an Irish artist from Viennauses Realtime 3-D, game design software with his photography to creat scenes in real time that show the passing of the day. His landscapes include farms and oil fields in which the central theme is the impact of man on the environment. On March 18 at 7p.m. Gerrard will hold a “Meet the Artist” at the HIrschorn Museum and in addition, a three-day colloquium with others in the field about the difficulties surrounding film and related video and digital arts.
Art and Activism : Lucy Lippard’s Trojan Horses Revisted
In Lucy Lippard’s essay “Trojan Horses: Activist Art and Power” she discusses the notion of Art entering into the arena of social change, to introduce ideas in a disguised and subversive manner. Presented as a work of art, the political message then comes to the forefront with the artist’s statement made in the piece itself. How these ideas are disseminated remains a struggle that can only work if done together as a whole.
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