Beller “Paying Attention”
“One should emphasize that as with assembly line production, in the cinema and mass media both raw materials and worker/spectators are modified in the process of making a commodity-image. People and their objects/images are modified along with everything else, from the bank accounts of capitalists, the economic scale of production, and the built environment, to behavior, the sensorium, and cognition itself. Without the screen, there would be no globalization.”
This passage stood out to me because of the way in which he states that in order to have a positive outcome in the media and cinema there’s a process like everything else, this process can be edited or changed and that in order for this to happen there are always essential elements that contribute to this. He makes a very interesting to connection of how relevant this statement is to everything that we know in existence, technically as we all may know it “the cause and effect theory”. His use of common sense is something that i believed indulged me more to this reading because of the many connections he makes to every day items and actions.
TJ Demos “A Matter of Time”
“The ability to play with time, to postpone it, to quicken it, is a distinctly modern phenomenon.While the concepts of infinity, the eternal, time’s purgatorial suspension, or its termination within narratives about man’s ultimate destiny – the end of the world – were certainly important to past cultures, a change occurred in the West with the Enlightenment. Broadly speaking, an emerging secular humanism introduced ideas of mathematical time, explored its philosophical structure and conceived the relativity of temporal experience outside of divinely orchestrated progression”
I enjoyed the way in which Demos makes sophisticated associations in between how we perceive time and the way in which we portray this in art, also the fact that he uses sciences in a way to help us understand this. This passage proves how we actually have manipulated and used time in our favor. As human beings we’re able to record, reenact and recreate historical moments and imply this in art. Time is only temporal and evolutional and this is where the sciences come in; only because its temporal, this has not stopped us from understanding the past and elements from it, we are currently experiencing time and because we understand this we can make sophisticated conclusions of what time will be later in the future.
Anri Sala: Answer Me
I really enjoy when artists are able to present and at some cases disguise important societal issues with art. Some may be straight forward, some may not. I think the way in which Sala organized his exhibition on all three floors and the ways in which he placed each video on every floor was made us have a different perspective or kind of throw us off and wonder why these videos are all put together in here. But as you would go from floor to floor i came to realize that although all videos were different from one another they all connect as a whole and and way as i perceived it was kind of like the three floors were different layers of a frame and it could be understood as inner layer, a medium layer and an outer layer. I really thought that the precise syncing of his audio with his visuals is what made his work so captivating.