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Contextual & Theoretical Studies: February 2010
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Contextual and Theoretical Studies. Sunday, 21 February 2010. Postmodernism-Not serious/pokes fun at/exhaustion/pessimision/pluralism/dissilusionist. Jean Tinguely-"Homage to New York" 1960 - performed in the Sculpture garden, museum of modern art in new york, self destroying mechanism. Friday, 19 February 2010. Photography (objective) as recording/showing the world/stepping in (capture the world). Wwwjamesnachtwey.com-bond with viewer. Sudan 1992 (explicit/shows the horror). A growler gang in session.
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Contextual & Theoretical Studies
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Contextual and Theoretical Studies. Wednesday, 30 March 2011. Urban space/hidden power structures. In all urban spaces mechanisms of control/power. Hausmanisation- to stop crime/ to segregate/control/power. Adverts/billboards change how feel/act/. Business control- spend/ consumption. Dog whistle for chavs-shops. John Berger- Single point perspective (way of representing space). Eg lighthouse-instead of light going in/coming out (appearances). One way situation/panopticism= one all seeing eye. Constructi...
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Contextual & Theoretical Studies: Lefebvre & Space - Portfolio Task 5
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Contextual and Theoretical Studies. Wednesday, 30 March 2011. Lefebvre and Space - Portfolio Task 5. In 300-400 words, use Lefebvre's Spatial Triad (above) to conduct a critical reading of one social space in or around Leeds. Leeds Train Station is the busiest social space I could think of in Leeds. Everyday thousands of people commute to or through Leeds. In 2008/9, Leeds was the busiest railway station in the North of England. According to Network Rail. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Contextual & Theoretical Studies
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Contextual and Theoretical Studies. Wednesday, 30 March 2011. IDENTITY AND THE OTHER. Analysis of visual example. Who we are/ how others percieve us/ themselves. What makes you, you? Where you grew up/ subjectivity (relationship to the world and other people). Education (different education, different effect). How do you express this/ your identity? Fashion/ clothes- individual/ conformity. Attitude (how you treat people). Speech (way you speak-bbc english/ slang/ Queens english. Production= what you make.
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Contextual & Theoretical Studies: Lecture 6
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Contextual and Theoretical Studies. Wednesday, 30 March 2011. THE MEDIA, GLOBALISATION AND SUSTAINABILITY. Process of transformation of local/regional phenomena into global ones. Described as a process by which the people of the world are unified into a single society and function together. Process=combination of economic/technological/sociocultural and political forces. Elimination of state-enforced restrictions on exchanges across borders. McDonaldization - mc donalds dominating society.
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Contextual & Theoretical Studies: March 2010
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Contextual and Theoretical Studies. Wednesday, 24 March 2010. Haussmann's changes to Paris (Extra Portfolio Task). The late nineteenth century brought a new way to how people could spend their days with the onset of urbanisation and also with world time being standardised in 1912. Due to the industrial revolution, rural workers from the countryside and abroad, poured into the major cities of the world searching for employment. Tinniswood, A. (1998). London, Reed Consumer Books Ltd. Accessed 24 March 2010].
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Contextual & Theoretical Studies: November 2009
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Contextual and Theoretical Studies. Monday, 23 November 2009. Modern, Modernity and Modernism (Portfolio Task 2). Harrison, C and Wood, P. (eds.) (1997) 'Art In Theory: 1900-90', Oxford, Blackwell, pp. 125-9. Write no more than a few paragraphs but try to include what you see as the five key points that the authors are trying to communicate about Modernity and various Modernists subsequent responses to the condition of Modernity. Include a bibliographic Harvard reference for the text at the end. The last...
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Contextual & Theoretical Studies: March 2011
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Contextual and Theoretical Studies. Thursday, 31 March 2011. Constructing the other - Portfolio Task 7. Compile an annotated photo essay that analyses the visual and linguistic construction of a specific other within a magazine, journal, periodical or newspaper of your choice. You could focus on gender, race, class, sexuality, fashion, etc but make sure that you comment on how the construction of such an 'other' secures and stabilises the identity, and sense of self, of the publication's core audience.
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Contextual & Theoretical Studies: Lecture 5
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Contextual and Theoretical Studies. Monday, 28 March 2011. REALITY, VIRTUALITY and HYPERREALITY. Plato-alergy of the cave. Teaches us a lesson on how we react with the world/ Ignorance is bliss. Only know shadow/1 dimensional view of cave. Only see what were shown/close minded e.g. how wars are portrayed. Hyperreality - inception/coca cola ads. Coca-cola ad- Santa in red. Before this santa was portrayed wearing green 1930's Haddon Sundblom. Guy Debord- images of the world, rather than world. 28/01/11SIGH...
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Contextual & Theoretical Studies: January 2011
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Contextual and Theoretical Studies. Thursday, 6 January 2011. FILM THEORY, 'THE GAZE' and PSYCHOANALYSIS. Psychoanalysis - way of thinking linke. D to psychology psychiatry. Laura Mulvey- (Film writer informed by both feninism and psychoanalysis. Most famous work 'Visual pleasures and narrative cinema' (1975) later turned into a longer book of the same name. Some key points developed by Mulvey:. Rther, developing scopophilia in its narcissistic aspect.'. Mirror Stage- 'The moment when a child recognises ...
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