I am Chenhan Yao and Cher is my English name. I came from China and this is my second year studying in UBC. Actually I tried to study other courses in my first year and finally I chose to follow my heart to take major in visual arts. Compared with some traditional art such as drawing and painting, I prefer to study technical art especially photography and digital art. Although I do not have so much knowledge about this area, it will inspire me a lot both in study and life.
I think taking visa 210 would give me lots of help on the digital art, as well as telling me how to communicate with the contemporary art. Technology has so intimate relationship with the Humanity and I think touching the nature, getting connections with others would improve me in the art.
This is my first time to communicate my classmates and professor on such website and I think it is a wonderful tool for us to exchange the ideas.
week1 challenge
The image I chose is one street in London, Canada. The photo looks very common, just depicting the blue sky and the quiet neighborhood. But this is the place I stayed for two years’ high school life.
I still remember my mixed moods I took the photo at that time. I was 15 years old at that year and I grew up with a very independent personality. Therefore, when my parents came up with the idea that I would study abroad, I was very looking forward to experiencing a different life. However, when I arrived in London, my high school’s city, I started to realize the importance of my family accompanying. My residence was ten minutes’ way from the school and the photo was taken on the way to school. Actually it is not just one photo, I keep taking it every day in my first month’s arrival although they are the same scene. I sent the photos to my parents to record my life.
Besides the lonely from the image, I still held the expectations at that moment. The blue sky, the block, the people…all the things are new to me and had a large difference in my hometown, which made me have the confidence to start a new life. Until now, every time I saw the image, it would remind me of my tough life at that period and gave me the strength.
week4 challenge: What is an image today?
After reading “The Truth of Experience”, I realized that image occupied our lives much more than I imagined. Photography has become our daily fare, expanding their functions in multiple areas including mass-media, economics, politics, law and social science. Furthermore, an expanded photography is about constituting the self visually. Our experience, behavior and thoughts have integrated into the image. The article is divided into few parts and each parts’ subtitle have the clear theme how images get into our lives, talking about the past and present.
The following passages impress me a lot.
“We trade our existence in images, and we shape ourselves through them.”
“The image-making process is always and necessarily the ‘making of meaning’. The process continually melds past, present and future, cognition and emotion.”
“Inscribing oneself into the image and image-making process is the only way left to participate in life: moving into the core of the image, into the work and the discourse that lies behind the image and becoming part of it, as well as of the medium. Expanded photography is, thus, about experiential truth.”
From my understandings, image-sharing sites are not only the sharing of information to others, but also the communication of themselves. Every time people share images, it is a time for self-evaluation. Like the above article says, we shape ourselves through images. Sharing images sometimes become an excuse to meet people’s vanity. In image-sharing sites, Selfie plays an important role which become a way for people to express themselves. Photoshop and some other tools are used in order to present a better image. The result is, because of the fast development of these kinds of tools, images become not “real “now. Referring to the situation, we are not just seeing the images superficially and start to look for the images behind.
Week 2 notes:
What is an image?
-Picture representations information
-Map relationships – social
-memories
-emotions
– 2-“Reality” →purpose
-mentals
-reflection
-evocation
Michel Focault (The word) is a secret that carries within itself, though near the surface, the decipherable signs of what is trying to say.
Un chien Andalou
Why do we create images?
What is our relation to image?
Image=truth
What is the power of images?
What is an image?
– representation, visual language, a broader way to understand our relationship to other things
– anything that allow us to access something else
– memory, sound, thoughts
– central to our understandings of our world
– relationship between images and history
– youtube: Altamira caves
– sometimes control people’s minds and social relation
How do they affect humans and their reality?
– Photography
– E.g. Documentary photography, scientific photography, police picture
What are the ways in which images are used to persuade public opinion?
Can you affect the world with your images?
– Can change on some ways on human perception, like women to smoke,
– But no power against natural impacts, e.g. climate change,
– Can have some effects on the politics and public opinions
What is the relation between images and technology?
– Medieval representation
– Renaissance perspective
– Photography -industry revolution
What is the power of technology? What is technology?
– allows us to create images
– Youtube: Berger ways of seeing
– evaluation
– a method, a technique, a skill to help our life easier, it allows us to use camera or some else tools to see the world and gain the knowledge.
– Our humanity is connected with technology.
– Technology improves our quality of life.
Is technology invention or discovery?
– On my own opinion, I think it’s both. Technology cannot leave without science, and I think science is discovery and it boosts the invention of technology.
– Discovery is the process of taking something apart to understand the pieces.
– Invention is the process of putting already discovered pieces together. Technology happens in an environment where discovery has already happened and you put together pieces in a way potentially guided by those earlier discoveries.
What are the effects of technology on your life?
(from my own perspective)
– I think technology has two sides on my life but overall it is a positive effect.
– (Positive) Google covers many topics which makes us have a easy way to gain our knowledge and the website is a great space for us to communicate our understandings for my interests.
– (Positive) Ceil phone becomes one of my most important thing to carry with in my daily life, I can use the phone to communicate with my relatives and friends, or use the camera to shoot nice images.
– (Negative) Some bad contents including violence and pornography affects the growth of teenagers, and the unlimited time spending on the computer games and social media affects our study.
– (Negative) For me, sometimes I cannot concentrate myself on study because I cannot stop checking on the comments about social media.
What is the relation/power dynamics between humans and technology?
– Human makes the progress on the technology and technology improves people’s living quality. I think it indicates that there is an interaction between humans and technology.
Summary: Some moments/ terms taught on class (most in week8-Art, Technology, Freedom)
Surrealism
– a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s in France, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects, and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself.
representation:
Un Chien Andalou: a 1929 silent surrealist short film by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí
Andre Breton: a French writer, poet, and anti-fascist. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as “pure psychic automatism”.
Constructivists
– Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1913 by Vladimir Tatlin. This was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art. He wanted ‘to construct’ art. The movement was in favour of art as a practice for social purposes.
Futurism
– Counted to be as a form of art and social movement that had been created in Italy in the early 20th century. This style of art had been practiced in every medium possible. Even though this had been originally created in Italy, there had been parallel movements in Russia, England and other countries.
Fluxus
– A name taken from a Latin word meaning ‘to flow’. Fluxus is a international network of artists, composers and a range of designers which have been realised for creating different types of artistic media and disciplines in the 1960’s. Fluxus has also been described as intermedia.
“the most radical and experimental art movement of the sixties”.
Hi everyone,
I am Chenhan Yao and Cher is my English name. I came from China and this is my second year studying in UBC. Actually I tried to study other courses in my first year and finally I chose to follow my heart to take major in visual arts. Compared with some traditional art such as drawing and painting, I prefer to study technical art especially photography and digital art. Although I do not have so much knowledge about this area, it will inspire me a lot both in study and life.
I think taking visa 210 would give me lots of help on the digital art, as well as telling me how to communicate with the contemporary art. Technology has so intimate relationship with the Humanity and I think touching the nature, getting connections with others would improve me in the art.
This is my first time to communicate my classmates and professor on such website and I think it is a wonderful tool for us to exchange the ideas.
week1 challenge
The image I chose is one street in London, Canada. The photo looks very common, just depicting the blue sky and the quiet neighborhood. But this is the place I stayed for two years’ high school life.
I still remember my mixed moods I took the photo at that time. I was 15 years old at that year and I grew up with a very independent personality. Therefore, when my parents came up with the idea that I would study abroad, I was very looking forward to experiencing a different life. However, when I arrived in London, my high school’s city, I started to realize the importance of my family accompanying. My residence was ten minutes’ way from the school and the photo was taken on the way to school. Actually it is not just one photo, I keep taking it every day in my first month’s arrival although they are the same scene. I sent the photos to my parents to record my life.
Besides the lonely from the image, I still held the expectations at that moment. The blue sky, the block, the people…all the things are new to me and had a large difference in my hometown, which made me have the confidence to start a new life. Until now, every time I saw the image, it would remind me of my tough life at that period and gave me the strength.
week2 challenge: What is an apple?
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd8wSLEB0f7/?taken-by=cheerchercer730
week3 challenge: The Image of the Image
https://www.instagram.com/p/BeO2FDYhiAC/?taken-by=cheerchercer730
week4 challenge: What is an image today?
After reading “The Truth of Experience”, I realized that image occupied our lives much more than I imagined. Photography has become our daily fare, expanding their functions in multiple areas including mass-media, economics, politics, law and social science. Furthermore, an expanded photography is about constituting the self visually. Our experience, behavior and thoughts have integrated into the image. The article is divided into few parts and each parts’ subtitle have the clear theme how images get into our lives, talking about the past and present.
The following passages impress me a lot.
“We trade our existence in images, and we shape ourselves through them.”
“The image-making process is always and necessarily the ‘making of meaning’. The process continually melds past, present and future, cognition and emotion.”
“Inscribing oneself into the image and image-making process is the only way left to participate in life: moving into the core of the image, into the work and the discourse that lies behind the image and becoming part of it, as well as of the medium. Expanded photography is, thus, about experiential truth.”
From my understandings, image-sharing sites are not only the sharing of information to others, but also the communication of themselves. Every time people share images, it is a time for self-evaluation. Like the above article says, we shape ourselves through images. Sharing images sometimes become an excuse to meet people’s vanity. In image-sharing sites, Selfie plays an important role which become a way for people to express themselves. Photoshop and some other tools are used in order to present a better image. The result is, because of the fast development of these kinds of tools, images become not “real “now. Referring to the situation, we are not just seeing the images superficially and start to look for the images behind.
week5 challenge: The Image of the Image II
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bey4Bc3hFWF/?taken-by=cheerchercer730
Week6 notes: Midterm reflection notes
What is an image?
-language, representation, reflection
-emotions, experiential
-memory
What is our relation to images?
-reflection and memories on our emotions
-power
-directionality
What is Art?
-reception
-expression
-sublimation
-what makrs us human
-information
-emotion
What is the power images exert on us?
-creates reality
-transportation : temporal & spatial
-reciprocity: our power over images?
Can images change society?
-yes
-reception (diversity) : translation
-suggestion (norms. customs)
Can art change the world?
-lmages & art → differences?
week6 challenge： Midterm reflection
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AubnPln-kZ3Nki4ldNYg5ko33jhQ
Week 2 notes:
What is an image?
-Picture representations information
-Map relationships – social
-memories
-emotions
– 2-“Reality” →purpose
-mentals
-reflection
-evocation
Michel Focault (The word) is a secret that carries within itself, though near the surface, the decipherable signs of what is trying to say.
Un chien Andalou
Why do we create images?
What is our relation to image?
Image=truth
week 6(7) challenge: create an image for peer
the image of Caixi Li
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bfugxi8hB0l/?taken-by=cheerchercer730
week 8 challenge: Technology and life
https://www.instagram.com/p/BgSTSsZhbpM/?taken-by=cheerchercer730
week 9/10 challenge: New ways of Life
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Inoxe5zegJPoWPak47QrieZ7Dvjn8l8b/view?usp=sharing
Week11-Main Questions | Technology/ Humanity/ Images
What is the power of images?
What is an image?
– representation, visual language, a broader way to understand our relationship to other things
– anything that allow us to access something else
– memory, sound, thoughts
– central to our understandings of our world
– relationship between images and history
– youtube: Altamira caves
– sometimes control people’s minds and social relation
How do they affect humans and their reality?
– Photography
– E.g. Documentary photography, scientific photography, police picture
What are the ways in which images are used to persuade public opinion?
Can you affect the world with your images?
– Can change on some ways on human perception, like women to smoke,
– But no power against natural impacts, e.g. climate change,
– Can have some effects on the politics and public opinions
What is the relation between images and technology?
– Medieval representation
– Renaissance perspective
– Photography -industry revolution
What is the power of technology? What is technology?
– allows us to create images
– Youtube: Berger ways of seeing
– evaluation
– a method, a technique, a skill to help our life easier, it allows us to use camera or some else tools to see the world and gain the knowledge.
– Our humanity is connected with technology.
– Technology improves our quality of life.
Is technology invention or discovery?
– On my own opinion, I think it’s both. Technology cannot leave without science, and I think science is discovery and it boosts the invention of technology.
– Discovery is the process of taking something apart to understand the pieces.
– Invention is the process of putting already discovered pieces together. Technology happens in an environment where discovery has already happened and you put together pieces in a way potentially guided by those earlier discoveries.
What are the effects of technology on your life?
(from my own perspective)
– I think technology has two sides on my life but overall it is a positive effect.
– (Positive) Google covers many topics which makes us have a easy way to gain our knowledge and the website is a great space for us to communicate our understandings for my interests.
– (Positive) Ceil phone becomes one of my most important thing to carry with in my daily life, I can use the phone to communicate with my relatives and friends, or use the camera to shoot nice images.
– (Negative) Some bad contents including violence and pornography affects the growth of teenagers, and the unlimited time spending on the computer games and social media affects our study.
– (Negative) For me, sometimes I cannot concentrate myself on study because I cannot stop checking on the comments about social media.
What is the relation/power dynamics between humans and technology?
– Human makes the progress on the technology and technology improves people’s living quality. I think it indicates that there is an interaction between humans and technology.
Summary: Some moments/ terms taught on class (most in week8-Art, Technology, Freedom)
Surrealism
– a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s in France, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. Artists painted unnerving, illogical scenes with photographic precision, created strange creatures from everyday objects, and developed painting techniques that allowed the unconscious to express itself.
representation:
Un Chien Andalou: a 1929 silent surrealist short film by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí
Andre Breton: a French writer, poet, and anti-fascist. He is known best as the founder of Surrealism. His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, in which he defined surrealism as “pure psychic automatism”.
Constructivists
– Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1913 by Vladimir Tatlin. This was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art. He wanted ‘to construct’ art. The movement was in favour of art as a practice for social purposes.
Futurism
– Counted to be as a form of art and social movement that had been created in Italy in the early 20th century. This style of art had been practiced in every medium possible. Even though this had been originally created in Italy, there had been parallel movements in Russia, England and other countries.
Fluxus
– A name taken from a Latin word meaning ‘to flow’. Fluxus is a international network of artists, composers and a range of designers which have been realised for creating different types of artistic media and disciplines in the 1960’s. Fluxus has also been described as intermedia.
“the most radical and experimental art movement of the sixties”.
week 12 Final Discussion
http://newhive.com/cheerchercer/visa-210-final-discussion
the final version:
http://newhive.com/cheerchercer/210