During the lecture, we discussed everyone’s “image of image” for a long time. And the interesting thing is that people response differently. Therefore, I think when an image sends the message to people, people sometimes have different emotions towards the image. THe reason may be deep subconsciousness, personal experiences, knowledge about the subject, and so on.
When we talked about the photography, there is a part suggests “image = real” which means we can be certain that sth is real and existed. However, I think sometimes the photography lies. The photographer tries to make and create something to make you believe. For instance, nowadays people like to take pictures and post them on their social websites. Sometimes, it is sth they create for others to believe, and the image is not real.
What is an image?
Visual representation, picture of language, memory, experience, evocation, etc.
*Relationship:
Experience/mental – visual/equations/poetic and literary/sounds – experience/mental
(the device sparks similar experience and emotions to somebody else)
????
Imaging technologies
Also has the connection between image and technologies – prevalent worldview
1. Medieval representation
2. Renaissance perspective (lines and vanishing points: we are the center! Renaissance perspective conveys powerful messages about the new place occupied by human in the new world)
3. Photography – industrial revolution (daguerreotype; we are simply provide to make it happen; it is reality itself)
*Photography: image = real
OBJECTIVITY! We can be certain that sth is real and existed.
-Documentary photography
-Scientific photography
-Police picture
What is an image today? And what do our images reveal about our world?
(why the image placing us in the world today?)
Today we started class by looking at our “images of images”. This homework assignment required us to create abstract images from the descriptions we wrote about an image we are connected to in Week 1. Like last week’s exercise, this activity was effective in showing diversity in expression and also diversity in interpretation. Also like last week, some students chose to take a very abstract approach to their works while others kept representational content. It seemed that some reactions to images were exactly what the student creator intended with the work, while others were not. In the case of my image, the reactions were essentially what I intended. I was hoping to communicate the very specific kind of love and connection between a mother and daughter in the work, and that seemed to be how people interpreted it. Though, there was a bit of variability in whether people found that work to be overall “happy” or “sad”.
The rest of the class time focused mainly on the idea of images as a reflection of the cultural period they exist in. For example, we discussed Medieval paintings and the way that they embody the idea of life as a temporary time before the after-life. We moved on to looking at the perspective techniques seen in Renaissance paintings, and how this can represent the Renaissance ideal that humans had agency and were thus “the centre of the universe” in a sense. We then moved on to discuss the very important invention of photography in the Industrial Revolution. We talked about how photography represented a substitution for the real, and was trusted as an artifact of reality. For example, photos have been trusted in scientific and forensic settings. We progressed this discussion to images today and what the nature of today’s images says about our current society, which we were assigned to think about as homework.
I agree that the nature of images, and art, are a fairly direct representation of the epoch they are created in. I believe this is one of the reasons that art and images are so essential, as they exist as artifacts of culture and evidence of the thoughts and beliefs of a certain time. Discussions like the one we had in class today remind us how creative expression is a communicator of culture, and thus why the role of artist is an important one.
During the lecture, we discussed everyone’s “image of image” for a long time. And the interesting thing is that people response differently. Therefore, I think when an image sends the message to people, people sometimes have different emotions towards the image. THe reason may be deep subconsciousness, personal experiences, knowledge about the subject, and so on.
When we talked about the photography, there is a part suggests “image = real” which means we can be certain that sth is real and existed. However, I think sometimes the photography lies. The photographer tries to make and create something to make you believe. For instance, nowadays people like to take pictures and post them on their social websites. Sometimes, it is sth they create for others to believe, and the image is not real.
What is an image?
(Social images)
Author!
What is an image?
Visual representation, picture of language, memory, experience, evocation, etc.
*Relationship:
Experience/mental – visual/equations/poetic and literary/sounds – experience/mental
(the device sparks similar experience and emotions to somebody else)
????
Imaging technologies
Also has the connection between image and technologies – prevalent worldview
1. Medieval representation
2. Renaissance perspective (lines and vanishing points: we are the center! Renaissance perspective conveys powerful messages about the new place occupied by human in the new world)
3. Photography – industrial revolution (daguerreotype; we are simply provide to make it happen; it is reality itself)
*Photography: image = real
OBJECTIVITY! We can be certain that sth is real and existed.
-Documentary photography
-Scientific photography
-Police picture
What is an image today? And what do our images reveal about our world?
(why the image placing us in the world today?)
Today we started class by looking at our “images of images”. This homework assignment required us to create abstract images from the descriptions we wrote about an image we are connected to in Week 1. Like last week’s exercise, this activity was effective in showing diversity in expression and also diversity in interpretation. Also like last week, some students chose to take a very abstract approach to their works while others kept representational content. It seemed that some reactions to images were exactly what the student creator intended with the work, while others were not. In the case of my image, the reactions were essentially what I intended. I was hoping to communicate the very specific kind of love and connection between a mother and daughter in the work, and that seemed to be how people interpreted it. Though, there was a bit of variability in whether people found that work to be overall “happy” or “sad”.
The rest of the class time focused mainly on the idea of images as a reflection of the cultural period they exist in. For example, we discussed Medieval paintings and the way that they embody the idea of life as a temporary time before the after-life. We moved on to looking at the perspective techniques seen in Renaissance paintings, and how this can represent the Renaissance ideal that humans had agency and were thus “the centre of the universe” in a sense. We then moved on to discuss the very important invention of photography in the Industrial Revolution. We talked about how photography represented a substitution for the real, and was trusted as an artifact of reality. For example, photos have been trusted in scientific and forensic settings. We progressed this discussion to images today and what the nature of today’s images says about our current society, which we were assigned to think about as homework.
I agree that the nature of images, and art, are a fairly direct representation of the epoch they are created in. I believe this is one of the reasons that art and images are so essential, as they exist as artifacts of culture and evidence of the thoughts and beliefs of a certain time. Discussions like the one we had in class today remind us how creative expression is a communicator of culture, and thus why the role of artist is an important one.