Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Tuesday, 30 August 2016

Week 5: Discussion


Library, Museums, Archives, Social Media, Galleries 

The archive acts as: 
- Social (Collective) memory 
- storage unit 
-a repostory for social, cultural, political ideas & values 

- Anthropology Study of human society & culture
   - Ethnograph
focus on cultural practice + values 
  
- Archeology
study of societies + cultures through material culture 

- History - Histories 
writing narratives taking archives 

- Story-Telling 

Ways of Working

  • Documenting the ephemeral 
  • tell an untold story produce new documents/archive
  • disrupt categories/orders
  • create archive to study "typologies"  
  • destabilise meaning recontextulise icons

Week 3: Portrait













Week 2: Task 2 Group Critique



For this task we had to take a portrait of someone in this case i had are class mate to take photos of me and Samuel for the task.

 






The image above are notes that class mates have put down by the image to explain what they see and how they feel about the image. The rest of the images below are of the class mates photos.








Week 2: Referencing Examples



  • If your publish are area in your reference make sure you have the state. 
  • Author Surname, Initial. (Year Published). Title of Book Place published: Publisher name. 

Week 1: Reading in Groups Discussion


Walead Beshty


  • He talks about objects aesthetics 
  • Objects are given meaning through use, and over time certain uses become Naturalise.    
  •  Meaning is made through context
Key Ideas:

  • Objects - Meaning is contextual aesthetics primary form of communication
Most Interesting Point:

Objects
  • Given meaning through use + through time 
eg. Taonga 
Nature of Aesthetics 

Different Opinions + Points Of Conversation 

  • Different Interpretations 
Carol Bove

week 2: Indexically



Class notes:
  • Trace of that light that hits the paper 
  • Document of time on how you leave the object over the paper
  • Roni Horn 
  • Photos of thames the river 
This class was interesting because the strategies that the artist used in the presentation.