Over the course of the semester, we will be developing interdisciplinary mind maps, charting the relationship between artists, works, and forms and embracing our own unique ways of understanding those connections.
Mark Lombardi was an American neo-conceptual artist who specialized in drawings that document alleged financial and political frauds by power brokers, and in general “the uses and abuses of power.”
Beth Campbell, in her series My Potential Future Based on Present Circumstances, created flow-charts of possible futures ramifying from everyday choices and events.
David McCandless‘s Knowledge is Beautiful collects beautifully realized infographics on sundry topics, from the lives of artists to the forms of veggie sandwiches. (Knowledge is Beautiful, Harper Design, 2014)
David Byrne, musician and former lead singers of the Talking Heads, provided this caustic map of “The Future of Music” in his book of tree-diagrams, Arboretum (McSweeney’s, 2006), in response to current anti-artist trends in the production and distribution of music. In the same book, he offered a more inspiring look at the “History of Mark-making.”
