Key word: macabre
Topics can be used:
Jade Simmons' project:
Specific value of found stuff when it's incorporate into art/rhetoric, etc.
http://urbanremix.gatech.edu/
Cornel West:
Pain, difficulty, mortality as central to reality, realness, truth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West
Hip-Hop:
Poetics/ ethics
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Jade Simmons's Lecture Notes
Rhythm of the way to walk is important. Three Hollywood artists and also President Obama do well in walking.
When practicing football, rhythm is also essential.(The flexibility)
Simmons played hand games with a student in lecture to show the simple concept of rhythm.
In Simmons art works, two cultures collide, piano and electronics.
Rhythm in healing gave so much power in ancient culture.
Urban Remix project--to record unexpected samples in rhythm
When practicing football, rhythm is also essential.(The flexibility)
Simmons played hand games with a student in lecture to show the simple concept of rhythm.
In Simmons art works, two cultures collide, piano and electronics.
Rhythm in healing gave so much power in ancient culture.
Urban Remix project--to record unexpected samples in rhythm
Friday, October 7, 2011
Reality TV: a dearth of talent and the death of morality
Success on this scale insists on being examined, because it tells us things about ourselves; or ought to.
It is good to be bad.
It is good to be bad.
Add the contestants’ exhibitionism to the viewers’ voyeurism and you get a picture of society sickly in thrall to what Saul Bellow called “event glamour”.
If we are willing to watch people stab one another in the back, might we not also be willing to actually watch them die?
Comments: “Reality” TV with “direct” appearance is essentially unreal. To a certain extent, all humans are voyeurs. These “voyeurs” want to watch something “evil” to fulfill their emotional needs. So participants in reality TV become devious, exhibitionistic and bad in order to achieve their final goal—fame. For the participants, they, on the screen, are not their real selves since they will do something that they will not do in their daily life. For the society, the mean and lying people on the show are not able to motivate the “voyeuristic” viewers to improve society.
There are also some Reality stars in China. The following is a video in Youtube talking about the two China’s most hated Reality stars.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Shield （Page 106-111)
Reality TV
Different people get sucked into reality shows for different reasons.
Our primary goal is to make a show that's compelling.
There's no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.(Is there even narrative?)
We want our viewing or reflect our complicated, messy, difficult, overloaded, overstimulated lives.
In Charles instructs Mrs. Flanders to stop moving, he's altering the world in order for it to match what he wants to paint, rather than shaping his painting to reflect what's actually occurring in the world.
The success of the genre reflects our lust for emotional meaning. We really do want to feel, even if that means indulging in someone else's joy or woe. We have a thirst for reality(other people's reality, edited) even as we suffer a surfeit of reality(our own--boring/painful).
Different people get sucked into reality shows for different reasons.
Our primary goal is to make a show that's compelling.
There's no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.(Is there even narrative?)
We want our viewing or reflect our complicated, messy, difficult, overloaded, overstimulated lives.
In Charles instructs Mrs. Flanders to stop moving, he's altering the world in order for it to match what he wants to paint, rather than shaping his painting to reflect what's actually occurring in the world.
The success of the genre reflects our lust for emotional meaning. We really do want to feel, even if that means indulging in someone else's joy or woe. We have a thirst for reality(other people's reality, edited) even as we suffer a surfeit of reality(our own--boring/painful).
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Simulacra and Simulation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation
"Simulacra and Simulation" breaks the sign-order into 4 stages:
1. The first stage is a faithful image/copy.
2. The second stage is perversion of reality.
3. The third stage masks the absence of a profound reality.
4. The fourth stage is pure simulation.
Simulacra and Simulation identifies three types of simulacra and identifies each with a historical period:
1. Premodern period, where the image is clearly an artificial placemarker for the real item.
2. The modernity of the Industrial Revolution, where distinctions between image and reality break down due to the proliferation of mass-reproducible copies of items.
3. Postmodernity, where the simulacrum precedes the original and the distinction between reality and representation vanishes.
"Simulacra and Simulation" breaks the sign-order into 4 stages:
1. The first stage is a faithful image/copy.
2. The second stage is perversion of reality.
3. The third stage masks the absence of a profound reality.
4. The fourth stage is pure simulation.
Simulacra and Simulation identifies three types of simulacra and identifies each with a historical period:
1. Premodern period, where the image is clearly an artificial placemarker for the real item.
2. The modernity of the Industrial Revolution, where distinctions between image and reality break down due to the proliferation of mass-reproducible copies of items.
3. Postmodernity, where the simulacrum precedes the original and the distinction between reality and representation vanishes.
Additional Reading:
Jean Baudrillard: “Simulacra and Simulations”
Friday, September 23, 2011
Reality Hunger (Page 1-19)
Instruction of Reality Hunger: A Manifesto from Wikipedia
Every artistic movement from the beginning of time is an attempt to figure out a way to smuggle more of what the artist thinks is reality into the work of art. (The situation)
Zola:"Every proper artist is more or less a realist according to his own eyes."
All the writing takes place in the editing room.
In antiquity, the most common Latin term for the essay was experior, meaning "to try, to rest, experience, prove."
Before the Industrial Revolution, culture was mostly local; niches were geographic.
The origin of the novel lies in its pretense of actuality.
The world itself is no longer our private property, hereditary and convertible into cash.
The aim of science is the discovery of truth, while the aim of literature is the production of pleasure.
Collage, the art of reassembling fragments of preexisting images in such a way as to form a new image, was the most important innovation in the art of the twentieth century.
Every artistic movement from the beginning of time is an attempt to figure out a way to smuggle more of what the artist thinks is reality into the work of art. (The situation)
Zola:"Every proper artist is more or less a realist according to his own eyes."
All the writing takes place in the editing room.
In antiquity, the most common Latin term for the essay was experior, meaning "to try, to rest, experience, prove."
Before the Industrial Revolution, culture was mostly local; niches were geographic.
Comment: before Industrial Revolution, transportation was not convenient. Information could not be spread rapidly and effectively.
The origin of the novel lies in its pretense of actuality.
The world itself is no longer our private property, hereditary and convertible into cash.
The aim of science is the discovery of truth, while the aim of literature is the production of pleasure.
Collage, the art of reassembling fragments of preexisting images in such a way as to form a new image, was the most important innovation in the art of the twentieth century.
PREZI-Review
The most difficult thing for our group-November at the beginning of the task was the content of our Prezi. At the first meeting, we chose a traditional way of brainstorming that was to divide the reality into several categories such as the assignment sheet mention—science, philosophy, culture and art. It was a safe way but lacking of innovation. Excitedly, I received an e-mail from Yao next day morning. He said that we may show our own interests and life in the presentation.
At our second meeting, we started over in a totally different way. Not just an academic mode of thinking, the divergent thinking promoted our task significantly. At this time, instead of confining our focus on reality, we only wrote key words related to our own interests and life. One reason of talking about our own interests is our main audiences of our presentation are our classmates. In another word, they are our peers, so they may be able to find their interests in our Prezi.
Then the next problem appeared: how to connect these stuffs with reality? The approach and the structure actually reflect the strengths of our presentation. We found out the overlapped contents in our brainstorming-map and then classified them into three divisions that were life, sports and pop-culture. In addition, all three categories could be related to real & material which should be the starting point of our presentation. Because we would do the presentation as a group, we must use some method to enhance its integrity. To achieve this goal, we agreed to make the ending-points of all parts of our presentation to Ideal & Abstract. And stuffs we plugged in our Prezi are all purposed to connect the binary ‘real & material’ and ‘ideal & abstract’ logically.
However, our Prezi did not fully take advantage of the pro of this presentation tool. If we have more time, we may use ‘rotation’, ‘zoom in’ and ‘zoom out’ to create proper tension in our Prezi. Compared to other group’s work, the claims of our Prezi could be also improved by inserting some quotations.
Quincy’s Prezi included three categories—physical reality, abstract reality and human culture. They used a more academic approach in their presentation. Their presentation started with introduction of forms of reality and then spread out the discussion.
Quincy’s Prezi included three categories—physical reality, abstract reality and human culture. They used a more academic approach in their presentation. Their presentation started with introduction of forms of reality and then spread out the discussion.
Unlike our group, Quincy used a lot of quotations to illustrate their ideas. This is good, however lack of attractions. If they could include more pictures, videos and their own stories in their Prezi, the presentation would be more interesting and alluring. Furthermore, the decorative typeface for the word ‘perception’ and ‘imperialism’ is hard to read. According to WOVENText, this should be used for informal, personal documents.
Their Prezi created wonderful visual effect to viewers by using lots of ‘rotation’, ‘zoom in’ and ‘zoom out’. Nevertheless, the persuasive force of the presentation itself is not strong enough. Firstly, the Prezi does not have a clear structure. They introduced that there are three forms of reality at the beginning of the presentation. At the first two parts of the Prezi, they talked about two forms of reality—physical and abstract. So the audience would assume the next part is the third form of reality—ineffable. However, they started to talk about human culture. The consistence of the presentation was broken. Secondly, there are a lot of same ideas however classified into different categories in the Prezi. ‘Science’ exists in both the categories of ‘physical reality’ and ‘human culture’; ‘religion’ exists in the categories of ‘intangible reality’ and ‘human culture’. So what category should these things be classified to exactly? Moreover, Quincy divided the ‘physical reality’ into two categories that is ‘tangible reality’ and ‘intangible reality’. But the stuffs in ‘intangible reality’ are almost the same as those in ‘abstract reality’.
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