On was an interdisciplinary graduate periodical established by RISD graduate students in 2006. It featured essays and student work that related to a general issue theme. On was intended as a quarterly publication, but it is unclear if further issues beyond the first were ever published.
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Yellowism and Ontology: A Skeptical Analysis
Wesley D. Cray
When Vladimir Umanets entered the Tate Modern on October 7, 2012 and defaced Rothko's Black on Maroon, he was operating, not as an artist or a vandal, but as a Yellowist. Yellowism is neither art nor anti-art but is instead a supposedly new cultural element that exists for its own sake and is about nothing but the color yellow. It might be tempting to write Yellowism and the Rothko defacement off as a mere prank or as pseudo-intellectual fraud, but I argue that, intentionally or not, the Yellowists have raised issues salient to those invested in both the ontology of art and social ontology more generally. In particular, their actions highlight issues pertaining to the relationship between stipulation and ontology. I explore these issues in this paper.
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NOCTURNAL TURNING/ BEGAN BREAKING/ SOME LONG WAITING/ TURNED MY HEAD/ TOWARDS SUBTLE SPARKS OF BLUE/ WANTING NOTHING/ MORE THAN TO SEE/ THE GLOW BEHIND YOUR EYES/ LIGHT UP SECRET WOODS
Carter Davis, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
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NOCTURNAL TURNING/ BEGAN BREAKING/ SOME LONG WAITING/ TURNED MY HEAD/ TOWARDS SUBTLE SPARKS OF BLUE/ WANTING NOTHING/ MORE THAN TO SEE/ THE GLOW BEHIND YOUR EYES/ LIGHT UP SECRET WOODS
Carter Davis, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Undergraduate student. Year of Graduation: 2015. Major: Printmaking. Class: Senior Degree Project Thesis. Faculty: Brian Shure and Liz Ferill
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NOCTURNAL TURNING/ BEGAN BREAKING/ SOME LONG WAITING/ TURNED MY HEAD/ TOWARDS SUBTLE SPARKS OF BLUE/ WANTING NOTHING/ MORE THAN TO SEE/ THE GLOW BEHIND YOUR EYES/ LIGHT UP SECRET WOODS
Carter Davis, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Undergraduate student. Year of Graduation: 2015. Major: Printmaking. Class: Senior Degree Project Thesis. Faculty: Brian Shure and Liz Ferill
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NOCTURNAL TURNING/ BEGAN BREAKING/ SOME LONG WAITING/ TURNED MY HEAD/ TOWARDS SUBTLE SPARKS OF BLUE/ WANTING NOTHING/ MORE THAN TO SEE/ THE GLOW BEHIND YOUR EYES/ LIGHT UP SECRET WOODS
Carter Davis, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Undergraduate student. Year of Graduation: 2015. Major: Printmaking. Class: Senior Degree Project Thesis. Faculty: Brian Shure and Liz Ferill
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NOCTURNAL TURNING/ BEGAN BREAKING/ SOME LONG WAITING/ TURNED MY HEAD/ TOWARDS SUBTLE SPARKS OF BLUE/ WANTING NOTHING/ MORE THAN TO SEE/ THE GLOW BEHIND YOUR EYES/ LIGHT UP SECRET WOODS
Carter Davis, Fleet Library, and Special Collections
Undergraduate student. Year of Graduation: 2015. Major: Printmaking. Class: Senior Degree Project Thesis. Faculty: Brian Shure and Liz Ferill
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Foggy Cormorant Convention
Donna DeForbes and Fleet Library
Photo taken on morning walk through Pawtuxet Cove, Warwick.
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Uncreative Practices: A Cross-Divisional RISD Symposium with Kenneth Goldsmith
Digital + Media Department, Kenneth Goldsmith, Lisa Z. Morgan, Mairead Byrne, Clement Valla, Shona Kitchen, Daniel Peltz, and Graphic Design Department
A couple of years ago Mairéad Byrne and Clement Valla had a Snap! moment when they simultaneously pulled the same assigned text out of their bags for courses they were teaching in different divisions. The courses were Nonpoetry Workshop (Graduate Studies) and Uncreative Design (Graphic Design), respectively. The book was Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age (Columbia University Press 2011). Conversations have since built across RISD around Kenneth Goldsmith's ideas of uncreativity, and especially the relevance of process and systems-based generative methodologies—as opposed to notions of inspired and intuitive genius—to current practices in art and design. Accordingly, faculty and students from every RISD division will participate in this discussion with Kenneth Goldsmith, who himself graduated from RISD (BFA Sculpture '84), demonstrating how his ideas might be important for the whole school to consider in the light of the "post-media condition" we are often theorized as occupying at the moment.
Organized by Mairéad Byrne, Shona Kitchen, Lisa Z. Morgan, and Clement Valla.
Supported by the RISD 2050 Fund, RISD Department of Digital + Media, and RISD Department of Graphic Design.
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Longing for Clouds - Does Beautiful Weather have to be Fine?
Mădălina Diaconu
Any attempt to outline a meteorological aesthetics centered on so-called beautiful weather has to overcome several difficulties: In everyday life, the appreciation of the weather is mostly related to practical interests or reduced to the ideal of stereotypical fine weather that is conceived according to blue-sky thinking irrespective of climate diversity. Also, an aesthetics of fine weather seems, strictly speaking, to be impossible given that such weather conditions usually allow humans to focus on aspects other than weather, which contradicts the autotelic character of beauty. The unreflective equation of beautiful weather with moderately sunny weather and a cloudless sky also collides with the psychological need for variation: even living in a “paradisal” climate would be condemned to end in monotony. Finally, whereas fine weather is related in modern realistic literature to cosmic harmony and a universal natural order, contemporary literary examples show that in the age of the climate change, fine weather may be deceitful and its passive contemplation, irresponsible. This implies the necessity of a reflective aesthetic attitude on weather, as influenced by art, literature, and science, which discovers the poetics of bad weather and the wonder that underlies average weather conditions.
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Saturday Portfolio Program Annual End of the Year Exhibition (2015)
Project Open Door and Teaching + Learning in Art + Design Department
In spring 2015, our end of year exhibition featured works created by teens in POD's Saturday Portfolio Program and celebrated our first year in our new studio space at 355 South Water Street. The instructors were Robin Wiseman (Senior Portfolio) and Clara Lieu (Senior Portfolio).
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Saturday Portfolio Program Annual End of the Year Exhibition (2015)
Project Open Door and Teaching + Learning in Art + Design Department
In spring 2015, our end of year exhibition featured works created by teens in POD's Saturday Portfolio Program and celebrated our first year in our new studio space at 355 South Water Street. The instructors were Robin Wiseman (Senior Portfolio) and Clara Lieu (Senior Portfolio).
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Saturday Portfolio Program Annual End of the Year Exhibition (2015)
Project Open Door and Teaching + Learning in Art + Design Department
In spring 2015, our end of year exhibition featured works created by teens in POD's Saturday Portfolio Program and celebrated our first year in our new studio space at 355 South Water Street. The instructors were Robin Wiseman (Senior Portfolio) and Clara Lieu (Senior Portfolio).
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Saturday Portfolio Program Annual End of the Year Exhibition (2015)
Project Open Door and Teaching + Learning in Art + Design Department
In spring 2015, our end of year exhibition featured works created by teens in POD's Saturday Portfolio Program and celebrated our first year in our new studio space at 355 South Water Street. The instructors were Robin Wiseman (Senior Portfolio) and Clara Lieu (Senior Portfolio).
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Saturday Portfolio Program Annual End of the Year Exhibition (2015)
Project Open Door and Teaching + Learning in Art + Design Department
In spring 2015, our end of year exhibition featured works created by teens in POD's Saturday Portfolio Program and celebrated our first year in our new studio space at 355 South Water Street. The instructors were Robin Wiseman (Senior Portfolio) and Clara Lieu (Senior Portfolio).
