Week 1+2 Representation
Case 1: Hall's tree (arbre): from 'a large plant that grows in nature' to 'sharing the code'
Henrique Oliveira, Baitogogo, 2013
Case 2: the author's character(s): Emily (2020) vs Amélie (2001)
Mass-communication: process as a ‘complex structure in dominance’
Outside, inside, without... Hors de Paris - Dans Paris - Sans Paris: Why and how might encoded and decoded meanings not be symmetrical?
- 'situated local not physically local'
- 'imagology' through 'cinematography'
- 'reproduction' by the audience via social media
- shifting of content production and distribution
Case 3: encoding / decoding
Lyrics, Vive le vent (Jingle Bells)
Vive le vent, vive le vent,
Vive le vent d'hiver,
Qui s'en va sifflant, soufflant
Dans les grands sapins verts, oh !
(English translation)
Long live the wind, long live the wind,
Long live the winter wind,
Which goes whistling, blowing
In the big green Christmas trees, oh!
'thought', Kundera, Immortality, 1990
“I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. I feel, therefore I am is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything that's alive. My self does not differ substantially from yours in terms of its thought. Many people, few ideas: we all think more or less the same, and we exchange, borrow, steal thoughts from one another. However, when someone steps on my foot, only I feel the pain. The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of egocentrism.”
Case 4: The 'treachery' of artefact(s)
Mass cultural after Magritte's 'Ceci n'est pas pipe'
With moving objects
Phenakistoscope
Incunables de l'animation, 1833-1897, auteurs divers, 18:25, silencieux
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with the moving body
Marcius GALAN, Diagonal section, 2013
Case 5: SOS distress signal (Morse code)
- 'internationally' ... ___ ...
- transmitted via written signals (dots and lines)
- audio/raido signals
- visual signals e.g. lights
Week 3 Context
Case 1: Passage de Choiseul, from 19th-century to present, Paris
Baudelaire's Paris
- Metropolis: Paris functions as a capital
- Paris Renovation 1853 - 1870
- Vieux Paris 'destroyed' by Haussmann
Les Fleurs du Mal illustrated by Matisse
- 'Tableaux Parisiens': Rêve parisien (À Constantin Guys)
- English translation from 1954, 1952 , 1936
Benjamin's Paris
Passage Choiseul, Paris (IInd district), CIRCA 1900 . (image © LL/Roger Viollet via Getty Images)
Paris, NOW (image © DR)
Case 2: flâneur vs 'foule' (crowd)
- gender: Baudelaire's [flâneur(s)] ||
flâneuse
e.g. excerpt from The Crowd, King Vidor, 1928
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F.W. Murnau, Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans, 1927
Case 3: Commodity + Art practice
- From salon into art galleries, museums
- Artist's working (art making) and exhibiting spaces
- Artist(s) to branding
- Fondation Louis Vuitton, Lafayette Anticipations (Fondation d'entreprise Galeries Lafayette
- Subscription mode for modern/contemporary art consumption?
- Museum of Contemporary Commodities
Case 4: Deconstructing/constructing the context
Artefacts being displayed in museum space
- e.g. Japanese samurai armour, British Museum
99 replicas. 'a peaceful gathering of predator and prey' Heritage, Cai Guo-Qiang, 2013
Week 4 Context
Case 1: Evergreen Micky Mouse and context: 'Present' of whom?
- Creation of Micky Mouse
- Entertaining us vs (also) ‘training’ us
- W. Disney's comic attempt (1930s) vs Motion picture rating system (1966) as 'Rated G'
Case 2: 'Micky Mouse is our subject'
- Problematics as Mickey Mouse figure
- Hard (STEM) and soft subjects (arts, languages, media)
- STEM vs STEAM
Case 3: The Narrative Ark ('berettermodellen')
Benjamin's text
"All Mickey Mouse films are founded on the motif of leaving home in order to learn what fear is... the public recognizes its own life in them."
*This refers to a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm–"the Boy Who Left Home in Order To Learn the Meaning of Fear"–which also served as a principal theme in Wagner's version of the Siegfried legend.
Fritz Lang, Die Nibelungen: Siegfried, 1924
Case 3: KAWS
Video:
- The Figure Taking Down Mickey Mouse and Disrupting the Art World | Behind The HYPE: KAWS Companion
- Exhibition Yorkshire Sculpture Park
- Exhibition Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Case 4: Banksy
Napalm, 2004
"The Terror of War", Nick Ut, 1972
Show Me the Monet, 2005
'Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies', Claude Monet, 1899
Week 5 Form
Case 1: NONOTAK ( Noemi Schipfer and Takami Nakamoto), Parallels, 2015
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Case 2: Numen / For Use, Tape (Tokyo, Paris, Moscow...), (2013 - 2015)
Case 3: Yoann Bourgeois, The Mechanics of History, 2017
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Case 4: Yoann Bourgeois, Celui qui tombe, 2016
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