Presentation: May 5

1. Kate: The Seagrum murals are very interesting about how the colors are and the height and how the artist put them in the restaurant to try to "ruin the appetite" of the people eating there. You explore how he was commissioned to paint for the 4 Seasons, but he created it for what he thought the vibe of the restaurant was, and later put his art elsewhere because the people were more focused on eating that viewing his art. I think this was very interesting and my only advice may be to talk more about the art as architechture, and how he justifies his art as that.

2. Yiwen: I really liked this topic, very unique and brought up things that I haven't thought about. I liked the thesis on the trade-off between extending the attention span of te audience and expressing the unreal. "The Cough" example was very good. I liked how you talked about the manipulation of time and how you showed us also what videos lacked. I was a bit unclear about the "unreal" part of your thesis though.

3. Anita: Street are and graffiti is a good topic. and teh question of whether it shouldbe considered vandalism is very controversal. I found it interesting when you said that this art being vandalism was one of the characteristics that makes it even better, and that where the work was chosen to be created at had a big factor on it (advertisement on a bulleton board vs. other random places that te graffiti artist choses). I think it was a very good presentation. Maybe you can also incorporate what was brought up when we looked at Jazzmin's presentation in relation to murals (in Alfredo's).