In what ways do video installations differ from films shown in a cinema? List the physical differences and use these as evidence to explain the differences in experience and aesthetic appreciation. Think about the environment as well as the immediate space in which a film is shown. Consider the types of film and select an example for more detailed discussion.…
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Part Four – Assignment 4: Self-Evaluation
My self-evaluation against the assessment criteria Demonstration of subject based knowledge and understanding Demonstration of subject based knowledge and understanding Broad and comparative understanding of subject content, knowledge of the appropriate historical, intellectual, cultural or institutional contexts. With part three in the back, I was more prepared to tackle part four with the challenging topic of difference. Reading primary materials especially…
Part Four – Assignment 4: The Art of Difference and the Difference of Art
Given the nature of difference-in-itself, or what we have referred to as theoretical difference, it would be an error to say that it appears in some works and not others. It would also be an error to think that difference was the only thing a work had to offer. However, with some caution and a little licence, we can show…
Part Four – Assignment 4: Refining Argumentation
Assignment task: Given the nature of difference-in-itself, or what we have referred to as theoretical difference, it would be an error to say that it appears in some works and not others. It would also be an error to think that difference was the only thing a work had to offer. However, with some caution and a little licence, we…
Part Four – Assignment 4: Difference in perspectives and finding potential
Given the nature of difference-in-itself, or what we have referred to as theoretical difference, it would be an error to say that it appears in some works and not others. It would also be an error to think that difference was the only thing a work had to offer. However, with some caution and a little licence, we can show…
Part Four – Assignment 4: Brainstorm and Outline
After I decided which artwork I was going to use for my assignment, I went similar to my previous assignment through a step-by-step approach. Here my brainstorming results with some phrasing of concepts and working thesis for my essay: The paradox of difference – Artworks and institutions and as pdf Main aspects related to difference: Institutational critique: difference…
Part Four – Preparation for Assignment 4: Research and Refining selection
Based on my initial brainstorming, outline and further reading here my plan for argumentation What do I know of the six image? Before selecting the one for my essay I am going to look at all six artworks in chronological order, perhaps to see certain development in art history. Images collected for A4 on my Pinterest board for this assignment (https://www.pinterest.com/sjschaffeld/uvc-a4/):…
Part Four – Preparation for Assignment 4: Understanding question
Given the nature of difference-in-itself, or what we have referred to as theoretical difference, it would be an error to say that it appears in some works and not others. It would also be an error to think that difference was the only thing a work had to offer. However, with some caution and a little licence, we can show…
Part Three – Assignment 3: Self Evaluation
My self-evaluation against the assessment criteria Demonstration of subject based knowledge and understanding Demonstration of subject based knowledge and understanding. Broad and comparative understanding of subject content, knowledge of the appropriate historical, intellectual, cultural or institutional contexts. I continued my research approach from part 2 and to read around the course work, looking at current topics in newspapers and journal as…
Assignment 3: Allegory of the Cave – Final
Here my final assignment essay about the validity of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave total word count (without content list, header, header quotes, footnotes, and bibliography) : 1593 as pdf document: pdf Reflection: After my draft essay, peer review and some further thoughts I decided to completely re-write my essay. I kep a few aspects from my…
Assignment 3 Preparation: Refining argumentation
Based on feedback received (Peer review reflection) on my draft essay and with deeper reflection on what I want to say (position statements). Alongside the need for ruthless editing down and also to reject aspects that I personally find intriguing but not the most relevant, I refined my statement, conclusion and argumentation. As planned in my reflection: Starting my with position…
Assignment 3: Allegory of the Cave DRAFT – for peer review
Read Plato’s account of the Allegory of the Cave and say whether an why you think it is valid today. There are various ways you can answer this question. In what sense might we be ‘in the dark’ about the world we live in? Are we in some sense collectively manipulated or do we just think we are? Does Plato’s…
Assignment 3 Preparation: Developing arguments – draft state
The assignment task was to review the relevance of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave in today’s society. I looked at a wider scope of Plato’s motivation and Platonism in a cultural and philosophical background. Possible ways of answering where provided in the course material (guidance or restrictions?) by living in the dark, collective manipulation and resemblance of shadows with television…
Assignment 3: Brainstorming and Outline
Plato (Plátōn) 428/427 – 348/347 BC. Student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, Plato was a Greek philosopher and founder of the ‘Academy in Athens’. Plato was a prolific intellectual who influenced Western philosophy, poltical theory, and even art till today. Aristotle, Aquinus and Kant would be on a similar level. The famous ‘Allegory of the Cave’ is part of book…
Part Two – Assignment 2: Self Evaluation
My self-evaluation against the assessment criteria Demonstration of subject based knowledge and understanding After the first part of this course I went through a learning curve in understanding how to address course work and assignment essay. Intense reading plan, not that I was not able to cover this completely, and interrogation with primary and secondary sources, books and journal, as well…
Part Two – Assignment 2: Plaster Surrogates
Look at Allan McCollum’s work Plaster Surrogates shown at the beginning of this chapter and explain its relationship to Modernist art and theory. To address this question you should first familiarize yourself with the work by looking at the different ways it is displayed in a gallery. Also give due consideration to the title as well as the medium and…
Assignment 2 Preparation: Developing arguments – draft state
This part is based on my initial brainstorming and outline, my prepatory researches on Allan McCollum’s work, art history of the ‘Monochrome‘ and the relationship to today’s visual culture and appropriation of McCollum’s ‘Surrogates’. Further I leveraged my learning from the coursework of ‘Modernism Explained’ One way I do see the evolution of painting: from the Albertian perspective as painting…
Assignment 2 Preparation: Brainstorming and Outline
“In the hyperreality of pure simulacra, then, there is no more imitation, duplication, or parody.” – Jean Baudrillard Understanding the assignment question and brainstorming ideas and keywords: remark: with support Inspiration® template Online images of Allan McCollum ‘Plaster Surrogates’: available from : ‘Collection Of Forty Plaster Surrogates‘, 1982 ‘Collection of Two Hundred Plaster Surrogates‘, 1982/1983-85 ‘Plaster Surrogates‘, 1982/84. Installation: Cash/Newhouse…
Part One – Assignment 1: Self Evaluation
My self evaluation against the assessment criteria Demonstration of subject based knowledge and understanding During the exercises and assignment work I tried to look at different perspectives and how some others are seeing those topics. At the moment I do not having enough exposure to art theory to place my argumentation in a general context. However, because of my two previous and…
Part One – Assignment 1: The Innocent Eye or Perspective
Part A Look at the painting ‘The Innocent Eye Test’ by Mark Tansey (below). The phrase ‘the innocence of the eye’ was coined by the British critic John Ruskin in 1857: The whole technical power of painting depends on our recovery of what may be called the innocence of the eye; that is to say, of a sort of childish…