Questions:
- What is an image?
- What is its relation with reality?
- What kind of reality is an image?
Representation
What does a painting depict?
Painting: relation with a visible reality- painting as rendering
Medieval paintings represent the “order” of the world
Renaissance perspective, baroque
Painting also implicitly depicts and communicate a particular relation/understanding of reality. Renaissance paintings conveyed powerful messages about the new place occupied by humans in the new world.
Photography- the pencil of nature.
The notion that Photography could give us un-mediated access to a fragment of the real created a new paradigm in which reality and image were directly interconnected. This was the basis for the advent of “documentary” and scientific photography, which in turn had a significant influence on what was ‘real’
How has this interrelation changed today with the emergence of new images?
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to post some links related to the video with the animated holographic anime character (hatsune miku) that we watched today. The first one shows the progression of this technology from 2009-2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgbyM1QlrWA (skip to 4:53 if you want to see all of the characters)
For people who don’t know what this is (I’m not certain if I explained it very well earlier) Vocaloid – where this character comes from – is actually a voice synthesizer program that contains recordings of various people’s voices making different sounds. Using the program, an individual can go in and manually combine these sounds from a voice and change the pitch of the voice to create a song. The character seen (miku) as well as all of the other ones in the posted video are based on the voices (voice banks) available to purchase/use to make songs. UTAU is a similar (free) program that allows you to do the same thing with your own voice. I’ve always found Vocaloid to be super interesting since it takes something real – your voice, makes it “unreal” – using technology, and then brings it back into our own reality. I’ve also posted two English Vocaloid songs if you would like to hear what this sounds like in English (again there’s no actual person singing, it has all been synthesized using technology that combines different vocal sounds).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_QEPrkwZ-Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as7MX_Vz3WE