A Last Lecture

This is Tomorrow

The Independent Group, 1956

• In 1958, Independent Group member, Lawrence Alloway, vocalized his insistence on the inclusion of popular culture into the art world by writing that:

… rejection of the mass produced arts is not, as critics think, a defence of culture but an attack on it. The new role for the academic is the keeper of the flame; the new role for the fine arts is to be one of the possible forms of communication in an expanding framework that also includes the mass arts.

• Alloway, Lawrence. “The Arts and The Mass Media.” Architectural Design & Construction.,February 1958 84-85

Grant me the power to revolutionize the world:A Personal History of Art.

How Hayao Miyazaki opened my mind, Sailor Moon and David Bowie made me a digital artist, and why I explain images to people.

How did I get into this mess?

Revolutionary Girl Utena, 1997directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara based on the Manga by ChihoSaito

Warriors of the Wind, 1985

Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, 1984

Howl’s Moving Castle

Diana Wynne Jones, 1986 Hayao Miyazaki, 2005

Hayao Miyazaki, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, 1984

Mel Chin, Revival Field, 1990 - 1993

• “Making objects and marks is also about making possibilities, making choices—and that is one of the last freedoms we have. To provide that is one of the functions of art.” -Chin

• Pig’s Eye Landfill in St. Paul, Minnesota for three years.

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, 1987

Thatgamecompany, Journey, 2012

Maurice Vlaminck, Restaurant de la Machine at Bougival, 1905 Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, 1987

TRS 80, Tandy Corporation, 1977-1981 Speedboat, 1984, Hayes Publishing

Barnett Newman

Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue I, 1966Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III, 1967

Kenneth Noland, Bridge, 1964

Sailor Moon, DiC version, Aired 1995

Episode 28

Ye ol’ Internet

Sailor Moon Stars, 1996

Floria Sigismondi, David Bowie, Dead Man Walking, 1997

Revolutionary Girl Utena, 1997directed by Kunihiko Ikuhara based on the Manga by Chiho Saito

Diana Poulsen

Words, 2003 Breathe Escape, 2003

The Adolescence of Utena, 1999

Poulsen, Stepper v 1.0, 2016

Poulsen, Station, -- In process

Conversations with my Surgeon

Diana Poulsen, Marina Abramovic, The Kitchen V, Carrying the Milk, 2009, 2016

Diana Poulsen, Joseph Légaré, The Fire in the Saint-Jean Quarter, Seen Looking Westward 1848, 2016

Yayoi Kusama, Gleaming Lights of the Souls, 2008

Diana Poulsen, Yayoi Kusama, Gleaming Lights of the Souls, 2008, 2015

Diana Poulsen, Thatgamecompany, Journey, 2012, 2015