Faculty and GTAs

My research investigates the aesthetic strategies that underwrite the constitution and argumentative structure of theories of art and politics from the 1960s to the present. My recent work has been particularly focused on the work of François Laruelle. A complete list of my publications can be found here: https://idahostate.academia.edu/JonathanFardy

Current Book Project:

Art/Work: Experiments in Materialist Aesthetics (Manuscript in Progress)

Fardy, J. Ideology after Althusser: Laruelle, Ranciere, Baudrillard (Manuscript in preparation).

Published Books:

2023: Ideology and Interpellation: Anti-Humanism to Non-Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic)

2022: Fardy, J. The Real is Radical: Marx after Laruelle (Bloomsbury Academic).

2020: Fardy, J. Laruelle and Art: The Aesthetics of Non-Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic).

2020: Fardy, J. Althusser and Art (Zero Books).

2018: Fardy, J. Laruelle and Non-Photography (Palgrave Pivot).

Recent Articles:

2022: Fardy, J. "The Object of Non-Aesthetics," in The Object as a Process: Essays Situating Artistic Practice," eds. Stephen Shmidt-Wulffen and German A. Duarte (Transcript Verlag/Columbia University Press).

2021: Fardy, J. “Photographism in Althusser’s Theory of Ideology (Notes Toward a Non-Philosophical Investigation),” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (26.6): 135-144.

Courses Taught:

All levels of Art History

Chris Pickett

Associate Professor of Art

Office: VOART 106

(208) 282-3693

chrispickett@isu.edu

Website

Education:

MFA the University of Florida

BFA the University of Tennessee

Courses taught:

All levels of Ceramics

Douglas Warnock

Professor of Art

Office: Fine Arts Building 402D

dougwarnock@isu.edu

Education:

MFA, Sculpture and Critical Theory, Hunter College, City University of New York (1986)

MA, Sculpture, San Jose State University (1979)

BA, Ceramic Sculpture, University of California at Santa Barbara (1975)

Courses taught:

all levels of Sculpture
Professional Practice and Display

select works:
2014-15 Total Kneefrettiti
Dr. and Ms. Steve Coker, Pocatello, Idaho (large-scale, private, design-and- build sculpture with environmental soundscape, flame, and water elements in an aqua-sensitive outdoor environmental site design, to be installed in July, 2015).

2014 Singularity
First Annual City of Eagle, Idaho Outdoor Sculpture Rotational Exhibition, juried and presented Best of Show Cash Award by Stephen Fisher, Professor of Art and Department Chair, College of Idaho. (a new, unique, nine foot tall concrete sculpture that suggests and considers autonomy and authenticity in children’s lives as they grow into adults in our culture).

2014 Critters and Creatures
City of American Falls Downtown Planted Stream Public Art Project, Phase One, (project vision and coordination of phase one of a large-scale, public, design-and-build sculpture of selected American Falls Reservoir environmental fauna, in collaboration with artists Kristol Coker, Jason Brown, Jake Warnock, Rebecca Merkley, Joe Pehrson, and Josh Sprague. Phase Two will involve haiku poetry created by American Falls K-12 students of divergent cultures and ISU Sculptural Studies Program students in its creative design, planning, and implementation over the next 1-2 years).

2014 design of Greene Street Hydro Wall Sculpture
Outdoor bronze, water and light sculpture proposal submitted to NOVA Designs & Builds, Inc. for site-specific residential site, San Francisco, California.

2013 Corten and Hot Rolled
Private design, build, and install commission, San Francisco, California.

2012 design collaboration of Transit Station/Plaza
City of Mesa, Arizona light rail system (design phase of five year design and build project, in conjunction with artist Roberto Delgado).

2012 Coordinated and participated in Aesthetic Neanderthals Exhibition
First Friday Artwalk, Old Town Pocatello. A group exhibition I created for ISU Department of Art undergraduates, graduate students, and interested faculty.

2012 design of Pocatello Charlotte Fire Eagle/Phoenix Public Art Project
In collaboration with Kristol Coker and Josh Sprague.

2011 Flame Cut
Pocatello Medical Center, Pocatello, Idaho (large-scale, public, design-and-build sculpture).

2011 Duality Boat/Bench: nature, death, transcendence, nothingness
Commissioned by Dr. Lee Abraszewski, Pocatello, Idaho (medium-scale, public, design-and-build public art sculpture installed on the Abraszewski Trail of the Portneuf Greenway Linear Park, Pocatello, Idaho)