Hybridization- the new black?

Greetings on this soggy post Thanksgiving Monday!

I hope you all had a great T Day and are ready to dive into the final stretch of OAD..

Zebroid, courtesy ODDEE.com

HYBRIDS...

Mercedes Hyper concept courtesy PHYSORG.com

If you google this term, you can come up with everything from animals, (some of my favorites being the Schnoodle (Schnauzer and Poodle) and the Zebroid, or  Zorse -combinations of the zebra and the horse) to hybrid bikes to the new brands of hybrid cars rolling off the assembly line quicker than a striped lizard on hot 
asphalt.  


This week we will be taking a brief look at hybrid art forms.  Some of you may remember this term from our discussions during our WAC tour, in reference to works that combine several technologies and media to create a new genre or artform.  We will be touching on this term as it is being and has been used in several art genres, from public artworks to sculpture and performance to early examples of hybrid installations.  So once again, bring your laptops (research) and process journals (to jot down artists and ideas...) as well as an open mind for our discussion. 

But before we launch into this new query, we will take a few minutes to discuss the readings from the last few very busy weeks.  Bring two questions to contribute to our discussion of the Stewart readings (Ch. 5-8) and/or Barrett, Ch. 6, Writing about Art.  We will also de-brief from our action packed  class discussion/presentation on 'Difficult Art' during our last session, so if you missed the show, you need to check out the pdf version of the presentation I've uploaded as a Google Doc for you asap... 


This week's art-junk question may best be answered in a review of the material covered in the last few weeks.  Here goes...

• Which artist from the 1990s combined text and image to comment on culture and society? (and worked at Conde Nast Publications?)

Good luck, stay dry, and finish your blogs! See you Thursday, if not before...