Category Archives: Blog 06

“The uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable from its being imbedded in the fabric of tradition.” This was in Guy Debord’s passage and I think what he means by this is that regardless of what style of art you are creating or what type of art you are creating, the uniqueness of one’s […]

In Brandon’s video, Papier, I really enjoyed the relationship between the paper and the hand as well as the movement of the camera. The positioning of the camera, accompanied by the movements of the camera created a very intimate relationship between the pages and the hand that was caressing them. I think I was most drawn to this […]

Adrielle’s video has a subtle aesthetic that connects a standard in traditional visual art to her topic: time. Her topic (the subway) connects to time because it deals with transportation. However, her video also relates to time in a different way. Her subtle use of symmetry also relates to time. We see a green pole […]

Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” and Guy Debord’s “The Society of the Spectacle” both discuss the “images” resulting from modern means of production. Debord focuses on how modern technology influences the individual’s perception of society by the presentation of a “reality”/ worldview that is actually very different from […]

Walter Benjamin talks about the aura of mediums, so much so that he emphasizes the ability to perceive a piece of art as it is before the introduction of mechanical reproduction.  In my opinion, there’s a bigger picture when it comes to the aura of an art piece that is more easily understood given the […]

I was somewhat familiar with Guy Debord’s writing prior to reading “The Society of the Spectacle” because he is associated with Marxism and the Situationist movement, both of which I learned about in high school. In this text, Debord defines the “spectacle” as a social relation of false consciousness mediated by images. He goes on to say that the […]

 I really enjoyed Brendan’s composition of the ferris wheel, the angle that it was shot from gave an interesting aesthetic to the picture itself. I believe some of the minimal details within the frame such the blurred colors from the far away hanging lights in the back gave the fireworks a mesmerizing and repetitive after […]

It can be highly disputed that we live in a very “unreal” world. Although, we do whatever it takes to create different types of false realities, whether the topic can be expressed as global or self awareness, this collides with how we try to justify and present something with a soothing level of truthiness. This […]

The quote I chose from Debora is: “The Spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image. “The Spectacle of Life is an article that is a guideline of media, population, demand, and capitalism. The Spectacle is supposed to be the videos people record and post to their social media blogs and sites. […]