Wednesday, January 23, 1974
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Visitors Handle Exhibit with Care
By CAROL GWINN Kansan Staff Reporter
A brush, a ladie, a watch to up, a flashlight—all are objects that a person uses without thinking, many times in his life.
The way these objects feel in the hand becomes something new and thought-provoking at the University of Kansas in Art exhibition, "The Extended Hand."
An entire wall filled with brightly colored hand imparts is the first introduction to the exhibit in the basement of Spooner Hall. The participants in the project left handprints on a wall during the party that opened the show. Another wall is available for anyone to outline his own hand in felt-tipped marker.
"I wanted to do a show about hands and I wanted it to be participatory." Dolo Brooking, curator of museum education,
said yesterday. She began working on the exhibit last July.
A display of doorknobs and door chains asks the viewer to determine why they were designed in such a fashion. On another wall is a display of gloves with different textures, the soft lining of a rabat for the roughness of the exterior leather of the glove.
"I GEARED the show to demonstrate that museums can do participatory shows and not alterate the older people, "Brooking And, by older I mean past high school.
An area beeps forth a noise sometimes resembling an accordion that someone has just sat on, sometimes sounding like a harp or flute. Arnold Englander, instructor of design, and Paul Linden, Sioux City, Iowa, senior, designed the beeper, called an "acoustical-perceptual sensitizer." The sensitizer picks up images made by the
shadow of a hand cast onto a screen, and sounds that vary with the war the shadow is in.
Another instrument called a "one-level quantizer" picks up the image of a hand and relays it to a television screen showing only the black and white contours and outline of the hand. Philip Currier, senior resident engineer in space technology, and Phil Anderson of Kantronics Company Inc., designed the machine for the exhibition.
"ITS RELATED to the problem that an artist might have," Brooking said, explaining that the quantizer allowed the artist to capture images on the screen by moving his band.
A series of colored boxes, each containing a common object, invited the viewer to visualize how his hand would look as it snapped from one object to another as objects as a water faucet or a pamphlet.
"It creates a sense of joy," Brooking said
A resolution passed by the Kansas Board of Regents Friday in Topeka could result in problems at the University of Kansas, a professor's encyclopedia for academic affairs, said Monday.
New Regent Stand on Credit Exams May Hinder Department Autonomy
The resolution would allow each state school to determine its own policy regarding the College Level Examination Program (CLEP), which is used in the awarding of college credit for courses taken out of college.
It also states that credit awarded by one of the six state-supported schools governed by the regents would be transferrable to a different institution. All students must pass certain standardized exams.
Saricks said a problem could arise because the various departments and schools had been autonomous in deciding academic policy, including the use of CLEP tests or any other standardized exams for college credit.
He said the criteria for use of the tests could differ from school to school and a policy about the use of the tests would have to be established under endangering the health of pupils, in particular.
Arno F. Knapper, associate professor of business and chairman of the University Council Committee on Academic Procedures and Policies, said Monday that his committee was studying CLEP exams and probably would make a recom- mendation in February to the University Council on the use of all such standardized tests.
The University code is vague about credit by exam, Knapper said, and the committee would recommend a further elaboration on the policy of granting credit.
Also at the regents' meeting, Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor for business affairs, reported University efforts on energy conservation.
He said an analysis of campus buildings was made by Buildings and Grounds to
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determine which buildings could be closed if an emergency arose.
The thermostats in buildings were lowered to 50 degrees during the Christmas and New Year's break. Nitcher said this saved two days of gas, of gas.
The University's gas supply was cut off by the Gas Company for a total of six days during the semester break. KU is an interruptible customer of the gas company. During the interruption, 80,000 gallons of fuel oil were used in place of the gas.
about the participatory part of the exhibition. "It takes away the people's fear that they don't know anything about art as they walk through an art museum. It helps them understand. By the time they get to the second room, they had time to relax and forget their fears."
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The second room of the exhibit contains art works borrowed from museums and personal collections, "The Left Hand," a sculpture by Augusto Rodin, a French artist, who also his sculpture's "unfinished" look, was borrowed from the Philadelphia Art Museum.
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"Self-Absence Pot" by Bill Dwayne Allen shows hands reaching out of the pot itself and tearing a hole in the pot. A watercolor drawing of a tree in the background ("Tree into Hand and Foot (Study for Hide and Seek)," and "Hand Chair") by Pedro Friedberg, which is a highly polished wooden chair shaped like a cupped hand, are two more original interpretations of the pot.
The exhibition is ideal for children eager to touch anything and everything and presents and enjoyable view and growing awareness of both art and the hand for the purpose of presenting works to runle through an art exhibit free to the public. The exhibition last until Sunday.
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