Lucille Tenazas is both an educator and graphic designer. Her studio, Tenazas Design was based in San Francisco for 20 years but relocated to New York in 2006, returning to the city where she originally began her practice in 1982. She is the Henry Wolf Professor in the School of Art, Media and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design where she is developing a graduate concentration in Design, Craft and Technology. Previously, she was the Founding Chair of the MFA program in Design at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Lucille's work has been featured in many publications and exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including a 2003 retrospective of her work from the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Among her clients have been the San Francisco International Airport, Princeton Architectural Press, Rizzoli International, Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art and projects for numerous non-profit organizations and institutions. From 1996 to 1998, she was the national president of the AIGA. In 2002, she received the National Design Award for Communication Design from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and has been honored in 1995 as one of the ID Forty, ID Magazine's selection of America's leading design innovators. Lucille studied at California College of the Arts and holds an MFA in Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Cate Blanchett in the movie used a manifesto from Elaine Sturtevant:āCreativity does not pop into the head. There are grounds, forces, powers that create and make art. A hazardous journey of leaps and crevasses, errors, daring and courage. This is the premise.ā Was there a time you think mistake is the resistance of your creativity? Do you practice creative design/thinking and how? Have you changed your opinions after hearing these manifestos? Do you think it is a good way to let you realize yours(support and against) thus generating a new one?
Tina Li
After watching the manifesto movie, I marveled at Cate Blanchett's acting! And think again what impact the manifesto will have on people? Ā One of the scenes impressed me. Kate told the children that nothing is original. So you can steal it from any place that inspires you. I think the stolen word is very interesting. After that, she commented on the students' drawings and told them something must be... I think it is contradictory. If you always have been told what things you should do, originality will become go away, especially for children. So do you think that nothing is original is true?
Dong Xia
While I was admiring Cate Blanchettās acting, I noticed few interesting lines,āI am for continuous contradiction, for affirmation. I am neither for nor againstā,āshit to Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Goethe, beshitted dilettantismsā¦ā Artists of each era have their unique thought, which were reflected in poetry, literature, painting, sculpture etc. But there will always be different voices on their idea and works. How do we comprehend this controversy? There is no right or wrong answer regarding to different ideas, how do we use the controversy into our works or manifesto?
Ruolin Fu
There are several manifestos with the shifting in different environments and plotsļ¼it feels like a little confusing that the voiceover seems irrelevant to the movie pictures. The whole movie brings me a strong sense of conflict, which makes me consider the real value of manifestos. Do manifestos truly make sense for most people in the world? Also, are they influential?
Mark Huang
Does contradiction lead to progress? From the previous reading, Manifestos are suppose to contradict each other. Throughout the film there were a lot of conflicts and mismatch in elements. Is this purposely done to invoke discourse and discussion in order to create progression? Does conflicting ideas impede on progress or create progress
Tegwen McKenzie
Marshall McLuhan famously said,āThe medium is the messageā.Ā
Many of the Manifestos performed in the film by Julian Rosefeldt originated as written work. Do you think changing the medium of a manifesto affects its meaning? For example, we all read Dogme 35 as a class; did Cate Blanchettās performance of it match your own initial understanding/interpretation of it?
Yining Zhu
In the movie, the director places manifestos in environments that donāt match the content. For example, a dance rehearsal, a dinner table, a news show, and an elementary school. Whatās the purpose of these conflicting settings and how does that add to the manifestosā value?Ā
Karan Chowdhary
How would a designer who has had a fairly straightforward set of life events have such a strong belief system? Because aren't these directly related to oneās own life experiences and phases? Ā
Vern Liu
Does the power of manifesto all come from words? From watching Manifesto, directed by Julian Rosefeldt, I canāt deny that my emotion is more or less affected by an established artist's filming technique, an established actress's performance, the established art, visual elements of the film, or the political/ historical texts.Ā
Thao Tran
The film quotes Sturtevant,āAll current art is fake. Not because it is copy, appropriation, simulacra, or imitation, but because it lacks the crucial push of power, guts, and passion.ā Is art always supposed to deliver meaning? Does it need to bear a mission to be called a piece of art?
Jess Chen
Life is art, everything in life can become the material of art, although sometimes a clever combination, transformation, will show different art forms, but what kind of emotion will arouse the audience has to feel by themselves. How manifesto was being formed? What is the meaning behind of the manifesto?
Samantha Laite
With the different ways this has been viewed i.e. in film festivals vs. gallery settings, do these changes change the intent and message the film conveys?
Grace Yang
Would there be manifestos in an utopia?
Is mass media essential for the existence of any manifestos?
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