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Intellect Books, Jan 2022
T-Squared has three primary aims. First, it illuminates the extensive and explicit relationship ... more T-Squared has three primary aims. First, it illuminates the extensive and explicit relationship between the research that shapes art, architecture, and design practices and the studio prompts and assignments that are developed by faculty for students engaging the creative disciplines. Second, it demonstrates that pedagogical inquiry and invention can be a (radical) research endeavor that can also become an evolutionary agent for faculty, students, institutions, and communities. Third, it makes available to a larger audience a set of innovative ideas and exercises that have until now been known to limited numbers of students and faculty, hidden behind the walls of studio courses and institutions. An interdisciplinary collection with its origins in the 2018 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, this book will appeal to anyone interested in design thinking and process.
Many books about Burning Man begin with a caveat. Their authors write that Burning Man cannot be ... more Many books about Burning Man begin with a caveat. Their authors write that Burning Man cannot be described, that its whole is incomprehensible to anyone, even to those who have attended the event. They say Burning Man can’t really be written about, and that what they are offering is dangerously incomplete. And yet, these authors do go on to write and produce books, and clearly some do want to offer a comprehensive overview. There is richness in the tension between the desire to communicate what Burning Man is and the sense that it is impossible to do so. This tension is perhaps what inspires so many people, an increasing number of people, to try to capture it – it is so hard to describe and yet so worthy of description. There must be something extraordinary about it, after all, since almost 70,000 people decided to spend a week at Burning Man in 2013. This book swerves away from these preoccupations to celebrate an aspect of the event that generates so much of its energy: stories.
What kind of history is appropriate to performance art, what is the relationship of this history ... more What kind of history is appropriate to performance art, what is the relationship of this history to other art historical methods, and is it applicable to other artworks? This is the underlying question that motivates my dissertation. I propose an answer to this question by engaging a detailed investigation of one artwork, a 1988 performance by Marina Abramovic and Ulay entitled The Lovers.
While such a specific focus might appear to limit my research, in this case it is an important directive. I use one artwork to contain my investigation; to provide one point of reference for a variety of historical and theoretical treatments. And I use this artwork because it is a particularly generative one. It embodies conditions that suggest a different kind of historical attention: It is no longer extant, its historical presence is dependent upon photographs and words, it occupies a landscape, it traces a prominent ancient ruin in a foreign (and largely inaccessible) country, it requires international mediation, it is made with and by bodies, it represents a reunion and a departure, its components include memory, time, ritual and endurance. It invites methodological inquiry as much as it problematizes historical attention to artworks that are not dimensionally finite.
Papers by Samantha Krukowski
T-Squared - Theories and Tactics in Architecture and Design
T-Squared - Theories and Tactics in Architecture and Design
InVasive, 2018
The story of a low-impact community build project that engages and builds bridges between partici... more The story of a low-impact community build project that engages and builds bridges between participants, providing communal experience and weaving a social fabric.
Drawing On, 2018
This project investigates and conflates two types of post-industrial site: the architectural and ... more This project investigates and conflates two types of post-industrial site: the architectural and the agricultural. It focuses not on specific places but on specific kinds of places – defunct industrial buildings, abandoned urban
edifices, and mechanized rural landscapes. The spaces of urban and rural abandonment share palimpsestic surfaces that are compelling grounds for
observation and intervention. Their layers are complex if not nearly obliterated histories, sometimes overwritten by ghost texts, always faded by changes in production methods and habits of occupation. In opposition to the idea that these sites should be whitewashed and redrawn, the authors consider them as grounds for new imagery and as repositories for material evidence that deepens, rather than erases, the evidence of their pasts. This new imagery is developed, in part, through the accumulation and projection of phenomena harvested from other post-industrial
sites.
The International Journal of Arts Theory and History, 2013
Metamorphosis, 2004
It is in the in-between that meaning is constructed. In the space between matter and the immater... more It is in the in-between that meaning is constructed. In the space between matter and the immaterial. In the dislocation between here and there. In the discernment of absence and presence. In the distance between an index and its referent. In the simultaneous recognition of a thing being mirrored and its mirror image. In the dividing line of a symmetrical subject. In the divergence of actual and virtual. In the distinction between physical and spiritual. In the transition between life and afterlife. In the intermission between live and recorded. In the difference between analog and digital. In the transfer (and transference) of a mark from one surface to another.
ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 conference abstracts and applications on - SIGGRAPH '02, 2002
Ulay and Abramovic's Light/Dark
A catalog for Alberto Giacommetti's exhibition at Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1948 reveals ... more A catalog for Alberto Giacommetti's exhibition at Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1948 reveals relationships between phenomenology, existentialism and psychoanalysis.
Preface by Gerard Holthuis, The Netherlands Because of the War Things Were Changing by Jennet Tho... more Preface by Gerard Holthuis, The Netherlands
Because of the War Things Were Changing by Jennet Thomas, UK
Patriotic by Benny Nemerovsky Ramsay, Canada
Jean Genet in Chicago by Frederic Moffet, USA
Remaking Jane Fonda by Scott Stark, USA
Our Brightly Shining Future by Ray Sweeten, USA
This paper is a study of a book of Western photographs by the contemporary photographer Richard A... more This paper is a study of a book of Western photographs by the contemporary photographer Richard Avedon. While Avedon is probably best known for his magazine work and his photographs of the rich and famous, In the American West is his attempt to reinterpret and redefine the Western myth. He shows us the West through portraits of people who live there, specifically those who are the most unfortunate--the underprivileged, disenfranchised and the bizarre. By depicting the West as a bleak and barren environment that does not reward its inhabitants, Avedon demonstrates his awareness of myths of the West that extolled it as the land of new wealth, social harmony and progress. And by choosing to illustrate his West through images, Avedon steps in the tracks of artists like Edward Curtis who set out to document North American Indians in the nineteenth century.
Comparing the imagery of pottery workshops on ancient Greek vases illustrates much about the meth... more Comparing the imagery of pottery workshops on ancient Greek vases illustrates much about the methods of making, painting and firing the pots as well as some of the social activity that transpired during all of these processes. This paper focuses on the depictions of pottery workshops, potters and vase-painters on ancient Greek vases. It also serves as a compilation of the major images and theories that have been presented in books and journals to 1990. This study is organized to follow the stages of pottery making as they are shown on the vases. Most of the published images on ancient Greek pottery making are presented here, except for a few redundant images that have been omitted.
Conference Presentations by Samantha Krukowski
A theoretical view of design|build
Burning Man and Black Rock City
Intellect Books, Jan 2022
T-Squared has three primary aims. First, it illuminates the extensive and explicit relationship ... more T-Squared has three primary aims. First, it illuminates the extensive and explicit relationship between the research that shapes art, architecture, and design practices and the studio prompts and assignments that are developed by faculty for students engaging the creative disciplines. Second, it demonstrates that pedagogical inquiry and invention can be a (radical) research endeavor that can also become an evolutionary agent for faculty, students, institutions, and communities. Third, it makes available to a larger audience a set of innovative ideas and exercises that have until now been known to limited numbers of students and faculty, hidden behind the walls of studio courses and institutions. An interdisciplinary collection with its origins in the 2018 National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, this book will appeal to anyone interested in design thinking and process.
Many books about Burning Man begin with a caveat. Their authors write that Burning Man cannot be ... more Many books about Burning Man begin with a caveat. Their authors write that Burning Man cannot be described, that its whole is incomprehensible to anyone, even to those who have attended the event. They say Burning Man can’t really be written about, and that what they are offering is dangerously incomplete. And yet, these authors do go on to write and produce books, and clearly some do want to offer a comprehensive overview. There is richness in the tension between the desire to communicate what Burning Man is and the sense that it is impossible to do so. This tension is perhaps what inspires so many people, an increasing number of people, to try to capture it – it is so hard to describe and yet so worthy of description. There must be something extraordinary about it, after all, since almost 70,000 people decided to spend a week at Burning Man in 2013. This book swerves away from these preoccupations to celebrate an aspect of the event that generates so much of its energy: stories.
What kind of history is appropriate to performance art, what is the relationship of this history ... more What kind of history is appropriate to performance art, what is the relationship of this history to other art historical methods, and is it applicable to other artworks? This is the underlying question that motivates my dissertation. I propose an answer to this question by engaging a detailed investigation of one artwork, a 1988 performance by Marina Abramovic and Ulay entitled The Lovers.
While such a specific focus might appear to limit my research, in this case it is an important directive. I use one artwork to contain my investigation; to provide one point of reference for a variety of historical and theoretical treatments. And I use this artwork because it is a particularly generative one. It embodies conditions that suggest a different kind of historical attention: It is no longer extant, its historical presence is dependent upon photographs and words, it occupies a landscape, it traces a prominent ancient ruin in a foreign (and largely inaccessible) country, it requires international mediation, it is made with and by bodies, it represents a reunion and a departure, its components include memory, time, ritual and endurance. It invites methodological inquiry as much as it problematizes historical attention to artworks that are not dimensionally finite.
T-Squared - Theories and Tactics in Architecture and Design
T-Squared - Theories and Tactics in Architecture and Design
InVasive, 2018
The story of a low-impact community build project that engages and builds bridges between partici... more The story of a low-impact community build project that engages and builds bridges between participants, providing communal experience and weaving a social fabric.
Drawing On, 2018
This project investigates and conflates two types of post-industrial site: the architectural and ... more This project investigates and conflates two types of post-industrial site: the architectural and the agricultural. It focuses not on specific places but on specific kinds of places – defunct industrial buildings, abandoned urban
edifices, and mechanized rural landscapes. The spaces of urban and rural abandonment share palimpsestic surfaces that are compelling grounds for
observation and intervention. Their layers are complex if not nearly obliterated histories, sometimes overwritten by ghost texts, always faded by changes in production methods and habits of occupation. In opposition to the idea that these sites should be whitewashed and redrawn, the authors consider them as grounds for new imagery and as repositories for material evidence that deepens, rather than erases, the evidence of their pasts. This new imagery is developed, in part, through the accumulation and projection of phenomena harvested from other post-industrial
sites.
The International Journal of Arts Theory and History, 2013
Metamorphosis, 2004
It is in the in-between that meaning is constructed. In the space between matter and the immater... more It is in the in-between that meaning is constructed. In the space between matter and the immaterial. In the dislocation between here and there. In the discernment of absence and presence. In the distance between an index and its referent. In the simultaneous recognition of a thing being mirrored and its mirror image. In the dividing line of a symmetrical subject. In the divergence of actual and virtual. In the distinction between physical and spiritual. In the transition between life and afterlife. In the intermission between live and recorded. In the difference between analog and digital. In the transfer (and transference) of a mark from one surface to another.
ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 conference abstracts and applications on - SIGGRAPH '02, 2002
Ulay and Abramovic's Light/Dark
A catalog for Alberto Giacommetti's exhibition at Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1948 reveals ... more A catalog for Alberto Giacommetti's exhibition at Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, 1948 reveals relationships between phenomenology, existentialism and psychoanalysis.
Preface by Gerard Holthuis, The Netherlands Because of the War Things Were Changing by Jennet Tho... more Preface by Gerard Holthuis, The Netherlands
Because of the War Things Were Changing by Jennet Thomas, UK
Patriotic by Benny Nemerovsky Ramsay, Canada
Jean Genet in Chicago by Frederic Moffet, USA
Remaking Jane Fonda by Scott Stark, USA
Our Brightly Shining Future by Ray Sweeten, USA
This paper is a study of a book of Western photographs by the contemporary photographer Richard A... more This paper is a study of a book of Western photographs by the contemporary photographer Richard Avedon. While Avedon is probably best known for his magazine work and his photographs of the rich and famous, In the American West is his attempt to reinterpret and redefine the Western myth. He shows us the West through portraits of people who live there, specifically those who are the most unfortunate--the underprivileged, disenfranchised and the bizarre. By depicting the West as a bleak and barren environment that does not reward its inhabitants, Avedon demonstrates his awareness of myths of the West that extolled it as the land of new wealth, social harmony and progress. And by choosing to illustrate his West through images, Avedon steps in the tracks of artists like Edward Curtis who set out to document North American Indians in the nineteenth century.
Comparing the imagery of pottery workshops on ancient Greek vases illustrates much about the meth... more Comparing the imagery of pottery workshops on ancient Greek vases illustrates much about the methods of making, painting and firing the pots as well as some of the social activity that transpired during all of these processes. This paper focuses on the depictions of pottery workshops, potters and vase-painters on ancient Greek vases. It also serves as a compilation of the major images and theories that have been presented in books and journals to 1990. This study is organized to follow the stages of pottery making as they are shown on the vases. Most of the published images on ancient Greek pottery making are presented here, except for a few redundant images that have been omitted.
A theoretical view of design|build
Burning Man and Black Rock City
Teaching a studio course at Burning Man
Teaching a studio course at Burning Man
A fold is a transitional space. Wherever there is a fold there is a specific moment where one thi... more A fold is a transitional space. Wherever there is a fold there is a specific moment where one thing becomes another: there is transformation. In mathematics this is a point of inflection. A mirror is a plane of inflection, a surface that simultaneously accepts and rejects that with which it is presented—you give it your face, it offers a distortion. A piece of draped fabric is a surface of inflection—it has multiple folds, pleats of matter with dark recesses and shining surfaces. Folded began over beer, as some projects do. I was sitting with a group of students who, like me, wanted to make something in the ACES visualization facility on the University of Texas campus. At the time I was thinking about painting, because i was doing a lot of it. I was thinking about the history of painting, about Barnett Newman's 1949 proclamation that painting was dead, about the abundance of digital imagery and the way in which technology has so often changed visual and spatial perspectives. I was thinking about the relationship between analog and digital processes and the character of material and immaterial worlds. And I was thinking about the nature of immersion and visualization—not only how they could be achieved given extant and emerging tools, but more importantly what it meant when they were.
