art and allusion

Thomas Demand - Tate podcast on his White House images

Tate Shots have recently released a nice short video podcast of Thomas Demand (3mins 44) talking about his photographed paper sculptures of the Oval Office and other rooms in the White House. This sheds some light on how he works generally too. For example, he talks about his deliberate omission of detail and why this is so important. He isn't trying to create a simple illusion of reality.

Demand has emerged as one of the most significant art photographers of his generation. We looked at his series 'Tavern' in Tate Modern for Week One  of the course Aesthetics: Classic Theories.

How To Remember Names - Secrets Revealed

For students on the Aesthetics courses I've taught at Tate Modern who asked me how I remember the names of students in the class, my secrets are all revealed here. This is password protected. The same password and username as for the podcast I did on Plato. If you've forgotten that, email me.