Lectures 1 - 5 Flashcards
(112 cards)
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Semiotics
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study of signs & symbols and their use of interpretation - creating & communicating meaning
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Signs
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anything that passes meaning to the receiver - or emotions, signs can communicate feeling
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“The Medium is the Message”
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how you send a message says more than the message itself - Media is a bridge vs media is a wall
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Vito Acconci “Claim” 1971
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man sitting at the bottom of stairs with a bat - about how you’re separated from danger through media - reality vs media - the staircase is technically the art
- He is king when you are down there, but a clown when you are only watching
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Media is the thing between us.
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It is a tool to pass a message. The thing between us is a bridge and a wall.
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The Artist is Present - Marina Abramovic
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the artist is literally there, and thats the art - media-less art
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Technology
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using scientific discoveries for practical or creative purposes in our life
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HK Arts Tech - Tech in Art
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applying technology (such as virtual reality,
extended reality, real-time animation, etc.) in
artistic creation to enhance the content and
delivery of artistic creation, support the success of arts and deepen audience engagement and experience.
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Vantablack
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Anish Kappor, 2018 - He owns a color
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Chromism
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a reversible change in color (can be triggered by: light, heat, pressure, friction electricity, etc.)
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The Moving Image: Persistence of Vision
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Slowness of human brain interprets still images as moving
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Stereoscope
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a device for looking at a couple of seperate, stereoscopic images, left and right eye view of the same image –> creates a three dimensional image
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Optical Toys
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Our eyes and ears don’t mirror reality truthfully - the mind creates the reality (optical illusions) - being “fooled”
is fun!
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Media Archeology
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a study of how older media were used to better understand the roles of today’s ‘new’ media
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Etienne Marey - Chronophotography 186
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synchronized cameras, movement studies
capturing movement with a single camera - First ‘motion capture’ system - basically took pictures of people performing action and layered them on top of each other
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Marcel Duchamp 1912 - “Nude Descending a Staircase, #2”
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Cubism, taking this same idea from chronophotography and just painting it
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Cubism
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Losing the single viewpoint of perspective space
Machines are cool new way of seeing
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Surrealism
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focus on the wild imagination of the human mind
Salvador Dali - “The Persistence of Memory”, 1931
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Dadaism
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modern times are dangerous and need to be critiqued
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John Heartfield - Propganda posters
“Hurrah the Butter is Gone!”, 1935
“Superman Adolf”
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the ‘other’ first media artist: his media: political propaganda poster
Take down nazi posters, change them a little, put them back up
“We regarded ourselves as engineers, and our work as construction.”
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Fernand Leger - “Le Ballet Macanique”, 1925
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Our bodies are like machines - basically a short film of a comparison between human actions and machine movement
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Photomontage
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a collage constructed of unconnected images
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Heemskerk and Paesmans - “Jodi.org”, 1995
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web-based artwork - intricate designs made in basic HTML
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Tamas Waliczky - “Imaginary Cameras”, 2016/2018
argued that the camera itself changes the image - Calling out the assumption that photographs are changing how we look at things
Series of invented picture-recording machines that take strange view of the world
Instead of “cameras change the world”, inventor’s vision decides the kinds of images a camera takes first
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“Earthrise” - Apollo 8 Mission, 1968
first picture of the earth from space
Cued environmentalism for people & environmentalist movement
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Art+Com - “Terravision”, 1994
The first ‘google earth’ - 3D map of the planet - overlapped on textures
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Charles & Ray Eames - “The Powers of Ten”, 1977
intended to explain scale to scientists and engineers
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Nam June Paik - “Magnet TV”, 1965
Fluxus, interactive TV with a magnet - you can move the magnet and change the image on the screen - interactive readymade
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Ant Farm - “Media Burn”, 1974
Car literally powering through TVs and creating an explosion - hatred for certain new media
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Bruce Nauman - “Video Corridor”, 1968
cameras make it so you get smaller on the screen as you get closer to it
Less important, smaller, taking away your identity, forced path
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Analog vs digital?
Analog (continuous flow - smooth transmission) vs Digital (incremental steps, binary code, always a gap)
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Ei Wada - “Flying Records”, 2014
balloons floating in a church, connected to old tv records, when they rewind, the balloons go down
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Does new media make old media obsolete?
“Photography did not kill painting, film did not kill photography, video did not kill film, but did the computer kill video? New media do not make old media obsolete… they assign them other places in the system.” - Friedrich Kittler
no, they get assigned other places in the system
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Marcel Duchamp - "The Bicycle Wheel", 1913
a "readymade" - an object that existed before and is now given new meaning, purpose, and status
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Readymade
Ordinary manufactured objects
presented as works of art.
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Marcel Duchamp - "Rotary Demisphere", 1925
a machine that creates 3D (a little swirly thing) - basically worhtless in its time, but worth tons now, he saw the future of art
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Marcel Duchamp predicts the future...
- Machines in art
- Optical illusion in art
- Interaction and tactility in art
- Changing the relationship between viewer and artwork
- Viewer CREATES the art
- Art as a commodity, bought & sold
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Constructivism
"Not the old, not the new, but the necessary." - Vadimir Tatlin
Emphases on materials and construction
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Ideas of Constructivism
- Artist = engineer
- Artist is industrial production
- Equality: artist is a worker
- Art = design
- Material ARE the beauty
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Vladimir Tatlin, “Monument for the Third International” 1920
A moving building, kinetic, that was also a political statement
It was never made
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Bauhaus
form follows function: shape is distated by its use
"honesty of construction, death to decoration”
Mies van der Rohe, director
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“Light-Space Modulator” Laslo Maholy-Nagy 1930
an object that creates and reflects light in an interesting way, reference to machine and tech in the artwork - painting come to life
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Pop Art
Art inspired by popular and commercial culture - ACTIVISM
Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein (used comics for art)
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David Rokeby, “Very Nervous System” 1988
as he moves, he creates music with sensors and lasers - how we view our bodies
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Technology Two Ways...
Technological determinism - tech creates social change
Symptomatic technology - social changes create technologies
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The Turing Machine, 1936
the first computer - two histories become one: automated numerical calculation and mediation of images
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John Whitney 1961
Motion Graphics invented using military missile tracking computers
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Spacewar! 1961
first computer games & first computer game with multiple users, very simplistic, required a huge computer and a ton of data
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Nine Evenings: Theatre and Engineering 1966 (Open Score, 1966)
Art performances start to use computers
- Open Score - Tennis with contact mics
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E.A.T.
Experiments in Art & Techn, founded in 1966
Matching agency for artists and engineers, like a dating app
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Georg Nees, “Computer Sculpture” 196
Early 3D Printing
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Manfred Mohr, “Une esthétique programmée” 1971
first solo show in a museum of art entirely calculated and drawn by a digital computer
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Fluxus
Art is an action! get rid of everything but the process from an artwork
The audience becomes participant and
interactivity is started
Instructions introduced into art - "programming"
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Yoko Ono - "Cut Piece", 1965
viewers are invited to cut away her clothes - commentary on the objectification and sexualization of women
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How did the Fluxus movement influence media art?
The audience becomes participant: interactive
Art can be an action: immaterial
Instructions come into art: programming
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Conceptualism
the idea is the only thing that matters
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Sol LeWitt, “Wall Drawing #146
1972
just a poem with instructions on how to create the artwork - what is the art here?
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Joseph Kosuth, “One and Three Chairs” 1965
Three chairs, exisitng in different ways - one is a picture, one a written description, and one is physically there
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Conceptualism influences New Media Art
Art as a set of instructions...programming
Escape from Materials—completely immaterial
Escape from Commodity—nothing to sell
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POSTMODERNISM
art is a critical investigation
If everything is changing, all we can do is explore.
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Eduardo Kac, “GFP Bunny” 2000
Genetically altered money that glows in the dark
The art is: the rabbit, the dialogue it creates, and the rabbit in relation to other rabits (social integration)
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Samson Young, “Liquid Borders” 2014
sound compositions between HK & China
sound comp, graphical notation, photos, maps
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KAWS (Brian Donnelly) - "Companions", 2020
grafitti --> toys --> inflatables --> augmented reality
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Dematerialization in Art
“We’ve always talked about dematerialized aspects of art, since the birth of conceptual art, and AR really is an extreme example of this, where you can do global things that are not material but still visually overwhelming.”
Daniel Birnbaum,
Artistic Director
Acute Art
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George E. P. Box, 1970’s British Statistician - Models
"All models are wrong, but some are useful".
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Data visualization:
the graphical representation of information
Visually show the numbers
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Infographics
information + graphics) utilize graphics
to help understand deeper meanings in the numbers.
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Information Art:
resenting the data using methods that
comment, critique or reinterpret the numbers. --> the numbers given feeling
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False Color
a data visualization technique that uses
colors different from reality to highlight information
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Lise Autogena and Josh Portway, “Most Blue Skies” 2006
Using global data sources to find the bluest sky - constantly finds the bluest sky and displays it on a projector
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DATA MATERIALIZATION
create physical 3D objects from data-informed design
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Luke Jerram, “28 Seconds of Hiroshima”
the sound of hiroshima bomb materialzed and created as one long metallic tube of sound
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Data Sonification
converting data into sounds
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Data Sculpture
large data materializations usually
placed in public places as artworks
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Real-time data
information that is collected and
delivered at the same time
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R. Buckminster Fuller - “Chronofile” 1920-1983
attempt at complete documentation of his own life from 1917 - 1983 - correspondence, bills, notes sketches, receipts, newspaper clippings
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“TextArc” W. Bradford Paley 2002
"alice in wonderland" as a database - basically a word cloud of the most common words
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Talking to the database: The Interface
An Interface is a translation between
independent systems (human/machine
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George Legrady, “Pockets Full of Memories” 2001
everyone from the public contributes an object in their possession to the database and it all accumulates
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A Timeline vs. A Stack
Narrative: the world is a cause and effect journey
Books, Myths, Movies...’the plot’
Database: the world is a list of connected items
Relationships...’the details’
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Database Narrative
Story is revealed by exploring a database
‘Search’ becomes the story...
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Ai Weiwei “Sunflower Seeds” 2011
a bunch of sunflower seed husks intricately hand-crafted in pporcelain
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Eduardo Kac, “Natural History of the Enigma” 2009
flower genetically incoded with his blood, anyone can own it
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the copy vs the simulation
copy: reproduced reality
simulation: false reality
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Simulation
a mathematical model of the real,
a new kind of representation.
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Jeffrey Shaw - "The Golden Calf", 1994
a golden cow that can only be seen with a tablet on an empty pedestal - biblical reference - commentary on worshipping things we don't interact with physical, beyond his time
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Art with no object:
a software
a system
an action
an experience
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Eduardo Kac, “Time Capsule” 1997
art as an action
implanting an animal tracker in his own ankle
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The ‘Aura’
Walter Benjamin
a quality in an artwork that cannot
be communicated through mechanical
or digital reproduction techniques,
That you can only experience through its actual
Presence.
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another walter benjamin quote
art is not complete without its time and space
'even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: Its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be.
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“The Terrible Uncertainty of the Thing Described” - Doug Hall 1987
news showed things completely differencty, there is a sistance between viewer and the experience - the danger is nullified
electric chairs and natural disasters on tvs
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“Sky Ladder” Cai Guo-Qiang 2015
a ladder made of explosives that was just really tall
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NFT
non-fungible token: digital asset or artwork that is guaranteed unique through the blockchain
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Four major periods in Image Value
Ancient Art—value in uniqueness
Age of Perspective—value in accuracy
Age of Reproduction—value in ability to distribute
Digital Age—value in ability to change
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Edward Muybridge, “The Horse in Motion” 1878
horse in motion, frame by frame - time was frozen, slowed, studied
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John F. Simon, Jr. “Every Icon” 1997
Basically creates every image, i think?? and it will take several billion years for it to be completed
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Dynamic System (quote)
“For the first time in history, the image is a dynamic system.”
Peter Weibel
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Jim Campbell,”Illuminated Average #1
Hitchcock's Psycho”, 2000
the average picture of every image in frame in psycho
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Ant Farm, “The Eternal Frame” 1976
reenactment of the jfk assasination that they did over and over until they were stopped by police
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fixed object
there is no fixed object = there is no fixed meaning = no fixed author
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David Small, “Illuminated Manuscript” 2002
Anyone can re-write the United Nations Guarantee of Human Rights
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How is new media changing text?
Because now the reader can construct the text, it changes the roles of reader and writer
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Nick Monfort, - “Taroko Gorge” (ongoing)
Anyone can look out at the nature ahead and add a line of poetry and it forms one long poem.
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What is the death of photographic truth?
because of video and photo editing apps, people can no longer trust things they see in photos
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Mariko Mori, “Birth of a Star” 1995
editing photos of herself before anyone really did it
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Potential Fraud? (quote)
“With the end of truth in photography
comes a corresponding loss of trust.
Every image, every representation,
is now a potential fraud” (10)
Anthony Aziz
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Deepfake
videos where the faces are swapped useding machine-learning
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Stan Brakhage “Mothlight” 1963
silent short film that incorporates real world elements - used moth wings and natural elements and pressed them between splicing tape to create film
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Len Lye 1930’s “Direct Films”
painting and scratching the film itself
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im Campbell, “Church On Fifth Avenue”, 2001
shows people walking by a church after nine eleven
analog to digital
living to dead
real to immaterial
