My selected picture is a picture of an pair of old and parallel bars standing in a messy grass. The parallel bars were bounded with several wood sticks and the rust on it is quite obvious. The grass field is disorganised and dirty with plenty of wild plants growing wildly.
Though the whole image does not demonstrate a beautiful view, it is precious for me. Because it carries lots of unforgettable memories of me.
This pair of small parallel bars are located in a small county of China. It is too small to find it even in a local provincial map. My grandparents had lived there before I was 10 years old. My mother had suffered from depression since I could remember. I was sent to this small county and lived with my grandparents when I was very young. My grandparents lived in a small suite of a building in a big courtyard. There was a big backyard in the big courtyard. I always played with my little friends there. In the spring we always bought big tubes from our homes and collected snails together; In the summer, everyone of us would prepare a 2-liter big empty coke bottle and collect grasshoppers together. I can still remember that I could fill up the bottle with the grasshoppers in 2 hours! In the autumn, we would use a long wood stick to hit the pomegranates and loquats from the pomegranate tress and loquat trees. When the fruits dropped off from the trees, we picked them up and divided them equally to everyone. I could still remember the taste of the first pomegranate that I got. Actually, it was not that sweet, it was sour and bitter. But the happiness it brought to me overtook the bitterness of the fruit itself. In the winter, we would dig a whole on the grass ground, and baked yams together. Every time when we are tired of playing, we would climb on to the top of the parallel and watched sunset together, then we suddenly realized that, one day had just passed.
I shoot this photo many years after I left that small county. Every time I look at this photo, I could not help thinking how time flies and how simple the children’s world was. The difficulty of my life is getting higher and higher as my age increases. The things and people around me keeps changing and getting more and more complex. It is impossible to fix a friendship or build a new friendship with a 2-cents snack. The sun is still the sun that I watched when I was young, however, the mood of watching the sunset has changed a lot. I miss my childhood and the friends of my childhood. Where are they now? What are they doing now? I think no one knows, everything stuck in the time of the day that I left.
Week 2 class notes: What is an image?
Michel Focault:
is a secret that carries within itself, though near the surface, the decipherable signs of what it is trying to say” (35, THE ORDER OF THINGS)
Philosophy
Mental imagery
-varieties of which are sometimes colloquially referred to as “visualizing,” “seeing in the mind’s eye,” “hearing in the head,” “imagining the feel of,” etc.
– quasi-perceptual experience
– resembles perceptual experience, but occurs in the absence of the appropriate external stimuli.
Manifest vs Scientific
-the major problem confronting philosophy today is the “clash” between “the ‘manifest’ image of man-in-the-world” and “the scientific image.”
Memory as the image of an image
-An experience? / A concept? / A feeling/ Something we cannot fully comprehend?
Poetry
-Imagery is the name given to the elements in a poem that spark off the senses. Despite “image” being a synonym for “picture”
– images need not be only visual.
-any of the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) can respond to what a poet writes.
Technical Images– human civilization has seen two fundamental turning points since its beginnings.
the invention of linear writing
– The first occurred approximately during the second half of the second millennium, B.C., and may be defined as
the invention of technical images
– we are witnessing it
After reading the article “The Truth of Experience”, I intend to analyze the parts that I like the most in the article and my interpretation after reading it. In the article, the writer claimed that “photography is losing its historical and its medium specificity, and expending its scope. It is our daily fare. We constitute ourselves both as individuals and communities through this visual alphabet and database, a language that is neither written nor verbal, but visual.” I have read a book named ” Forms and Lives”, a book demonstrates the relationship between art’s forms and the lives of forms before, in the book , the writer stated that the art is the fourth world. The first world is a physical world; the second world is the world of behaviors which including both human’s behaviors and animals’ behaviors and even plants’ behaviors; the third world is the world of thoughts and spirits; and fourth world is the world that use physical objects to represent thoughts and sprits. Photography is an integral part of art, it should be classified in the fourth world: Using physical object to represent thoughts and spirits, which is totally the same as language.
Moreover, the writer of the article also demonstrated that ” The photographical is a whole body of experience that embraces (and is mediated by) a great variety of relations, interests and possibilities to become the manifestation and constitutive element of our human condition in the 21st century. ” and “Photography is a mechanism that transforms reality into images, we can invert the terms and see the photographer as a translator, as a facilitator.” I agree those points of views. I think people make images is like making other art work, like music, painting, or sculpture. You make it, because you have the inspiration of it. Where does inspiration come from? The answer is reality, real life. I would like to call it as purity. To be specific, the purity of art. People live in reality, people can feel from reality. Then people can transfer those feelings into any art form. Image is a part of them. It is reality, the reality that people lives in makes people highly sensitive with the content of the art they are making.
I like to visit image sharing website in my spare time. Some of the image are made by some image making software like Photoshop, some of them are photography which shot by people. I think one thing very common of them is they all have the power to express information. The information of data, emotions, feelings and so on. They are transforming the reality into digital form.
Week 5
Information vs Art
The power of information
Simple symbols (words) can describe anything in the universe.
Electricity-perfect media of transmitting information-fast-telecommunication
Poetry takes as its purview what is deeply fely and is essentially unsayable; that is the paradox on which poem necessarily turns-Meena Alexander.
The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather, is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images.
Can art change the society?
Personally, I think art can change the society, because I think in today’s world, art does not only stay in a visual aesthetic level, but a spiritual level.
I definitely agree with that image can change the world. It could not change time, climate, but it can change us, human being. I believe in butterfly effect. We are small parts of the world. I believe that once we have changed, the world will somehow change.
I do not think image could change the society, however, I believe that it is society changes the image in the world.
Week 8
ART TECHNOLOGY FREEDOM
Fillipo Tomasso Marinetti
Italian
Recons Truction of the universe.
Futurism-freedom
Free this land from its smelly gangrene of professors archaeologists, ciceroni, and antiquarians.
Fluxus
-an attitude
-not a movement or a style
-intermedia.
Fluxus creators like to see what happens whendifferent media intersect. They use found and everyday objects, sounds, images, and texts to create new combinations of objects, sounds, images, and texts
-works are simple, art is small, the texts are short, and the performances are brief.
-art is for everyone
-a position as an approach, it began as an idea for majorities
-revolution
-anti-classical, anti-professional, anti-ordinary, anti-traditional
-post post modern
-secret, you can never catch it
Manifesto
Fluxus reminds me of Dutchamp, which is a great artist that equalized the art and life. Art is free, everything in our life could be a piece of art. Art is an integral part of every single culture, and everyone’s life. It is a tool of expressing the nonphysical objects to physical objects. It could be a thought, feeling, or emotion.
My selected picture is a picture of an pair of old and parallel bars standing in a messy grass. The parallel bars were bounded with several wood sticks and the rust on it is quite obvious. The grass field is disorganised and dirty with plenty of wild plants growing wildly.
Though the whole image does not demonstrate a beautiful view, it is precious for me. Because it carries lots of unforgettable memories of me.
This pair of small parallel bars are located in a small county of China. It is too small to find it even in a local provincial map. My grandparents had lived there before I was 10 years old. My mother had suffered from depression since I could remember. I was sent to this small county and lived with my grandparents when I was very young. My grandparents lived in a small suite of a building in a big courtyard. There was a big backyard in the big courtyard. I always played with my little friends there. In the spring we always bought big tubes from our homes and collected snails together; In the summer, everyone of us would prepare a 2-liter big empty coke bottle and collect grasshoppers together. I can still remember that I could fill up the bottle with the grasshoppers in 2 hours! In the autumn, we would use a long wood stick to hit the pomegranates and loquats from the pomegranate tress and loquat trees. When the fruits dropped off from the trees, we picked them up and divided them equally to everyone. I could still remember the taste of the first pomegranate that I got. Actually, it was not that sweet, it was sour and bitter. But the happiness it brought to me overtook the bitterness of the fruit itself. In the winter, we would dig a whole on the grass ground, and baked yams together. Every time when we are tired of playing, we would climb on to the top of the parallel and watched sunset together, then we suddenly realized that, one day had just passed.
I shoot this photo many years after I left that small county. Every time I look at this photo, I could not help thinking how time flies and how simple the children’s world was. The difficulty of my life is getting higher and higher as my age increases. The things and people around me keeps changing and getting more and more complex. It is impossible to fix a friendship or build a new friendship with a 2-cents snack. The sun is still the sun that I watched when I was young, however, the mood of watching the sunset has changed a lot. I miss my childhood and the friends of my childhood. Where are they now? What are they doing now? I think no one knows, everything stuck in the time of the day that I left.
Week 2 class notes: What is an image?
Michel Focault:
is a secret that carries within itself, though near the surface, the decipherable signs of what it is trying to say” (35, THE ORDER OF THINGS)
Philosophy
Mental imagery
-varieties of which are sometimes colloquially referred to as “visualizing,” “seeing in the mind’s eye,” “hearing in the head,” “imagining the feel of,” etc.
– quasi-perceptual experience
– resembles perceptual experience, but occurs in the absence of the appropriate external stimuli.
Manifest vs Scientific
-the major problem confronting philosophy today is the “clash” between “the ‘manifest’ image of man-in-the-world” and “the scientific image.”
Memory as the image of an image
-An experience? / A concept? / A feeling/ Something we cannot fully comprehend?
Poetry
-Imagery is the name given to the elements in a poem that spark off the senses. Despite “image” being a synonym for “picture”
– images need not be only visual.
-any of the five senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) can respond to what a poet writes.
Technical Images– human civilization has seen two fundamental turning points since its beginnings.
the invention of linear writing
– The first occurred approximately during the second half of the second millennium, B.C., and may be defined as
the invention of technical images
– we are witnessing it
WEEK 3 NOTES:
Color
-represents emotions feelings
-warm color-happy, joyful
-cold-sad, painful
Communality of image?
A-B
B-A
A:
-emotions
-definitions/concepts/convention/culture
-imagined
-memory/experiences
WEEK 10 new ways of life
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-FwPGybecPIGcOAlHKqgmXyKlQlbsYY2Zy2wz_IDuU4/edit?usp=sharing
Week 4
Technology Humanity Images
what is an image
experience mental-visual equations literary /poetic sounds-experiences mental
Image Technologies
Photography, Printing, Photoshop, Instagram
Prevalent worldviews
Medieval Representation
Renaissance Perspective Baroque (religious) Rocco (royal)
Photography-Industrial Revolution
Photography: Image – reality
Objectivity
documentary
How image effect the social media in our life?
instagram
facebook
transmitting reality, news
sharing our life
After reading the article “The Truth of Experience”, I intend to analyze the parts that I like the most in the article and my interpretation after reading it. In the article, the writer claimed that “photography is losing its historical and its medium specificity, and expending its scope. It is our daily fare. We constitute ourselves both as individuals and communities through this visual alphabet and database, a language that is neither written nor verbal, but visual.” I have read a book named ” Forms and Lives”, a book demonstrates the relationship between art’s forms and the lives of forms before, in the book , the writer stated that the art is the fourth world. The first world is a physical world; the second world is the world of behaviors which including both human’s behaviors and animals’ behaviors and even plants’ behaviors; the third world is the world of thoughts and spirits; and fourth world is the world that use physical objects to represent thoughts and sprits. Photography is an integral part of art, it should be classified in the fourth world: Using physical object to represent thoughts and spirits, which is totally the same as language.
Moreover, the writer of the article also demonstrated that ” The photographical is a whole body of experience that embraces (and is mediated by) a great variety of relations, interests and possibilities to become the manifestation and constitutive element of our human condition in the 21st century. ” and “Photography is a mechanism that transforms reality into images, we can invert the terms and see the photographer as a translator, as a facilitator.” I agree those points of views. I think people make images is like making other art work, like music, painting, or sculpture. You make it, because you have the inspiration of it. Where does inspiration come from? The answer is reality, real life. I would like to call it as purity. To be specific, the purity of art. People live in reality, people can feel from reality. Then people can transfer those feelings into any art form. Image is a part of them. It is reality, the reality that people lives in makes people highly sensitive with the content of the art they are making.
I like to visit image sharing website in my spare time. Some of the image are made by some image making software like Photoshop, some of them are photography which shot by people. I think one thing very common of them is they all have the power to express information. The information of data, emotions, feelings and so on. They are transforming the reality into digital form.
Week 5
Information vs Art
The power of information
Simple symbols (words) can describe anything in the universe.
Electricity-perfect media of transmitting information-fast-telecommunication
Poetry takes as its purview what is deeply fely and is essentially unsayable; that is the paradox on which poem necessarily turns-Meena Alexander.
The spectacle is not a collection of images; rather, is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images.
Can art change the society?
Personally, I think art can change the society, because I think in today’s world, art does not only stay in a visual aesthetic level, but a spiritual level.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o0IiQMzXb6TnDsfNybVhTkeLH7u3dm_uBtNemM_aTM8/edit?usp=sharing
MT REFLECTION
group members: Kangkang Ding&Stephen Zheng
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AtBK2ikFMr-xpluJym5ndjk1-3Ne
I definitely agree with that image can change the world. It could not change time, climate, but it can change us, human being. I believe in butterfly effect. We are small parts of the world. I believe that once we have changed, the world will somehow change.
I do not think image could change the society, however, I believe that it is society changes the image in the world.
Week 8
ART TECHNOLOGY FREEDOM
Fillipo Tomasso Marinetti
Italian
Recons Truction of the universe.
Futurism-freedom
Free this land from its smelly gangrene of professors archaeologists, ciceroni, and antiquarians.
Fluxus
-an attitude
-not a movement or a style
-intermedia.
Fluxus creators like to see what happens whendifferent media intersect. They use found and everyday objects, sounds, images, and texts to create new combinations of objects, sounds, images, and texts
-works are simple, art is small, the texts are short, and the performances are brief.
-art is for everyone
-a position as an approach, it began as an idea for majorities
-revolution
-anti-classical, anti-professional, anti-ordinary, anti-traditional
-post post modern
-secret, you can never catch it
Manifesto
Fluxus reminds me of Dutchamp, which is a great artist that equalized the art and life. Art is free, everything in our life could be a piece of art. Art is an integral part of every single culture, and everyone’s life. It is a tool of expressing the nonphysical objects to physical objects. It could be a thought, feeling, or emotion.
Week 11
Technology and Humanity
Technology-the ways that make our life easier. Or a part of natural evolution.
– learning, make life easier
-beaver, bees
Humanity
what makes our human?
-emotion
-culture
-civilization
-desire
WEEK 9 CHALLENGE
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QKFodQIDljvWjgFG0uzvcI0qPNdceuJq5WK0MwIHBio/edit?usp=sharing