We can argue that using social media is a case of mass production, a phenomenon that our previous readings warn us against. However, I believe that true meaning of art is to touch as many lives as possible, regardless of the medium. These artists who spread their work through social media is riding the wave […]
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artifacts (roksolana k.)
I found a lot of interesting points while reading “Artifacts: A Conversation Between Hito Streyerl and Daniel Rourke”. “Today the majority image production, dissemination, and commentary takes places online…the best place to go to grapple with the digital condition not the art gallery, but tumblr, youtube and even 4 chan.” “If artists do not expose […]
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Immersive Worlds Exhibition (Extra Credit)
I had heard about the Occulus Rift a couple years back and was so excited for the world of immersive technology and its impact on the gaming world. Only a year later, Facebook bought the company. I thought this was a weird move for the social media giant but I knew something big was going […]
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Hamza Saab
Response to Artifacts. The artifacts article discusses the major changes in art throughout time with the introduction of technology. Unlike paintings, Digital arts are majorly being accessed through the internet rather than art galleries, the article states: “Today the majority of image production,dissemination, and commentary takes place online. it strikes me that the best place […]
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Blog 6
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 […]
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Response to “Artifacts”
The poor image expresses the full ambivalence of Fanons idea of lumpenproletarians, which Arendt already beautifully and much more precisely described as mob in her “Elements of Totalitarianism”. The mob does not consist of the underclasses, but the “refuse of all classes”. The mob is composed of people expelled into a world characterised by violent […]
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Blog #7
“Digital information is thus characterised by transformation, degradation, circulation, but also by its surprising ability to mutate and produce unpredictable results.” What a fascinating read. One of my favorites so far. You can tell the writing was so fluid and packed with concrete ideas and wonderful theories. The glitch. A common word for gamers explaining […]
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Debord and Benjamin
Debord In “The Society of the Spectacle,” Guy Debord developed the concept of “Spectacle” and the negative sides of a “Society of Spectacle” which continues to coexist with arts and humanity. Debord introduces spectacle as equivalent to mass media at its peak of “superficial manifestation.” He is saying that because of mass media, people are controlled and […]
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Blog 06: Aura of mediums
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 […]
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Response to Debord’s “The Society of the Spectacle” & Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
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 […]
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