Okay,
So this is our last lecture class before the final. We are going to meet again in the slide library next week for the review. And someone has got to remind me to get you guys to fill out the course evaluation forms. I forgot to do it last week!
But here we go into the world of the lens. Go back to some of our first post and think about 'Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', the idea of the 'aura', it will be on the test.
To study:
1) the aura
2) simulacra/simlucarum
3) appropriation
4) originality (think of the modernist holy trinity of origin, original, and originality)
5) the idea of photos or videotape as reality, or as documentation, remember that video is inadmisable in court, think of Rodney King, OJ Simpson, the show COPS, all that stuff, legally video tape is not REAL!
6) the role of technology in art making and our ability to make art
7) the connections between advertising, magazines, newspapers, photos, pop art, journalism, documentary
8) how can art exist without the lens of a camera?
We have gone over everything you need to understand this text, just grab it all and make a friggin' salad!
Professor Shafier goes into the night like a recumbent moon over Miami...
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technology as of now seems to scare me a bit when i begin to think about art that is/has/and will influence my life.
as great as all of the advancements are that we have made from graphite and paint to perfromance and then to video and the digital world- i have to ask... what is next? and will this next advancement completely extinguish these past forms of artistic expression that we have always embraced?
and then again maybe i'm just biased, i like working with colored pencils.....
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