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The work of art in the age of the algorithm
(lecture by Kristian Jones)
The work of art in the age of the algorithm
A piece of art is considered art when there is an act of making, displaying and the act of collecting/buying.
An art object tends to collect time and space. It contains stories and captures moments.
"Now, we live in a world of digital reproduction. We create and reproduce more images every day than ever before."
Nowadays, we capture everything, and we share and distribute a lot of content online.
"more than 95 million photos are uploaded to Instagram every day."
The fact that it is so easier to reproduce and share information and content online can make it easier to connect, collaborate and distribute content in real-time, and we can now promote real change. We are living in a world of extreme connection through devices. It can also be bad because everything we say online and anything we put on the internet turns into data. The Ai has been trained with our data to understand people's behaviour to be sold to target people, fake news, and change behaviours. Besides this, there are systems where we can take photographs of anyone, and we can access all the information the person has online. The ai can even produce images and is now being used to make art. This digital era can recreate videos, making people look like they're saying something they've never said, and this way, it creates fake news, and it can be very dangerous to manipulate people.
The extinction and physical disappearance of objects, environments and living things are no longer physical experienced, but images and videos of those will remain to documents things that don't exist anymore.
"What is scarcity is to be NFT based digital artefacts/stories we collect because they are no longer in existence?"
Motion Graphic made for ‘Love, Life and Stories: Walking in a time of COVID’ Zine brief
Gif created on Procreate for ‘Love, Life and Stories: Walking in a time of COVID’ Brief Zine
Created in the context of ‘Life, love and stories: walking in the time of covid’ Zine Brief
Gif created for the “Life, love and stories: walking in the time of covid” Zine Brief
Stop Making Sense
Constructed narratives and found materials (Lecture by Gareth Courage)
—Constructed
Building something or putting together different parts to form something wholly
—Narrative
Can be a story or description of a series of events
A particular way to explain or to understand events
—Found
having been discovered by chance or unexpectedly
Key aspects to find objects:
Sculpture
installation
Assemblage
Photography
Film making
Photomontage
We can mix this with collage.
The Maybe. Conceived and performed by Tilda Swinton in an installation for the Serpentine Gallery created with Cornella Parker in September 1995. Photo credit: Hugo Glendinning
Pornographic Drawings by Cornelia Parker using the ‘Decalcomania’ technique (1996)
—Collage
A picture or surface, formed with various materials or objects, like paper, cloth, photographs, etc.
A detail of Hannah Höch's Cut with a Kitchen Knife through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 1919-20
Oscar Gustave Rejlander - Two Ways of Life, 1857, the first example of photo montage in the Victorian era
Murdering Airplane by Max Ernst (1920)
—The skip
Ultimate location for unexpected, bizarre finds.
The Fountain by Marcel Duchamp (1917)
Voyeurism
The Park by Kohei Yoshiyuki [1973]
Dirty Windows by Merry Alpern [1993-94]
Shopping by Merry Albern [1999]
Dear Stranger by Shizuka Yokomizo [1998-2000]
The Hotel, Room 44 by Sophie Calle
The Hotel, Room 47 by Sophie Calle
Gif created on Procreate for the “Life, love and stories: walking in the time of covid” Zine Brief
Psychogeography
“The study of precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environment consciously organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour or individuals”
Guy Debord, An introduction to a critique of urban (1995)
“How Places Feel”
Psychogeography describes the effect of a geographical location on the emotions and behaviour of individuals.
This term was invented by a Marxist theorist Guy Debord in 1995 to explore how different places make us feel or behave.
Psychogeography has its roots in Dadaism and Surrealism art movements that explore ways of unleashing the subconscious imagination.
La Route des Alpes, Tristram Hillier 1937 This painting could be described as an early example of the concept.
It gained popularity in the 1990s when artists, writers and filmmakers started using the idea to create works based on exploring locations by walking.
Psychogeography is a way to explore what's in our mind and how it connects with the environment.
“What is the relation between the territory an individual inhabits, occupies or temporarily finds oneself in and this individual mind?”
“How does the sense of place and space affect one’s mood, feelings, emotions and behaviours?”
“What is the actual correlation between the physical topography place and the “mental map” one conceives in one’s minds while experiencing that place?”
These are a few questions Psychogeography attempts to respond to.
Dérive (or Drift)
Dérive is essentially a way of interaction with the environment where you engage with it, so you're no longer thinking about it as usual functional roots to go to work.
"Let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there"
Guy Debord, Theory of the dérive (1956)
It's an environment for possibility and discovery.
We can find:
environmental typography
environmental wear and erosion
architectural form
We can find many typography and signs on buildings, and that can tell us something about a place and how people interact with it.
Architectural erosion can tell us how a place has been maintained and, therefore, how it is regarded as socially useful or may record trace of people's movement through the space or the interactions people have with it.
Architectural forms can relate to each other, creating spaces from narrow alleyways to wide-open spaces, which can tell us how people are encouraged to move through the environment or stop from doing so.
We can document what we find in a Dérive by:
sketching
photography
collecting objects,
sound and video recordings and even taking rubbings of text,
texture or surfaces (this process is called frottage
“Lisbon’s main cycling route has been transformed with this brilliant typography that makes the city’s 7,362-meter bike path along the river Tagus all that more fun and easy! A collaboration between Lisbon-based communication and environmental graphics studio P-06 Atelier and Global Landscape Architects, the Bikeway Belém is awash with symbols and text painted directly onto the street.”
Images of João Silveira Ramos
House of Terror, museum located at Andrássy út 60 in Budapest, Hungary.
San Juan, Puerto Rico
“What’s going on”
12th of February 2021
In this exercise, I was supposed to grow a mural in a wall of my space and somehow show what’s currently happening in my typical days, as a visual diary.
In the last couple of days, I’ve been missing the sound and the feeling of a tattoo machine in my body, I’ve also been working in brief to produce a zine, and in the free time, I’ve been watching a lot of game thrones with my flatmate. That’s why I chose to draw these flowers and a dragon; I also found inspiration in some of my tattoos.
Video Produced with Adobe Premiere
For the “Life, love and stories: walking in the time of covid” Zine Brief
Voyeurism
(Lecture by Ally Standing)
Definition: "the practice of gaining sexual pleasure from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity" — Oxford dictionary
Some researchers find a more appropriate contemporary definition of 'a voyeur' as: "one who seeks stimulation by visual means" — Blazer 2006
‘Scopophilia’ — “pleasure drawn from looking at an object or a person (...) describes the sexual pleasure that a person derives from looking at prurient objects of eroticism, such as pornography, the nude body, and fetishes, as a substitute for actual participation in a sexual relationship.” — Wikipedia [Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language (Unabridged)(1976), p. 2036]
Voyeurism in Law
According to the sexual offences act 2003:
"a person who commits an offence if —
(a)
for the purpose of obtaining sexual gratification, he observers [or records] another person doing a private act, and
(b)
he knows that the other person does not consent being observed [or recorded] for his sexual gratification."
Voyeurism in Photography
Voyeurism and photography are linked intrinsically.
"I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favourite things about it, and when I first did it I felt very preserve"
— Diane Arbus, quoted by Susan Sontag in On Photography (1971)
Voyeurism and Desire
Some images permit voyeurism, not only to the photographer but also to anyone who subsequently views the images.
The Unseen Photographer
In the early 20th century, photography started developing, and cameras became smaller and more comfortable to transport, and the film had many developments too. This evolution had benefits for every kind of photography, but in voyeurism, it made it easier for photographs to go completely unseen.
Voyeurism as Surveillance
'Photography has been used by governments in wartime and in peacetime for various things over time, such as: policing borders, gaining an advantage over enemies, gathering information.'
CCTV cameras are the most prevalent form of surveillance photography; they are intended to protect individuals and businesses. But until what point doesn't this become an invasion of privacy?
Constructed Voyeurism
Many practitioners have used the theme of voyeurism within their work to add to the narrative.
You don't need to tell the viewer everything, sometimes that level of ambiguity makes up their minds as to what happened can be more consequential.
Mediated Voyeurism
According to Clay Calvert, a communications scholar, reality TV is a kind of "mediated voyeurism" (2000) -though not a sexual kind -
"The consumption of revealing images and information about others' apparently real and unguarded lives."
Social media Voyeurs
Sometimes we have a little leak on other people social media, and sometimes we overshare there as well, we can consider this voyeurism.
Narrative and Sequence
A Narrative can be considered as a sequence of related events occurring in time
Normally, we conceive time as moving from left to right ➡️ and from top to bottom ⬇️
We can play and disrupt the narrative flow with a non-linear narrative or changing the direction of a narrative by presenting a story in reverse, breaking the conventions of reading from left to right and top to bottom, this can gain the effect of a narrative being revealed backwards or being interrupted.
Page Breaks: where the viewer will turn over the page and can be used as a way to create surprise or anticipation
The best is considering each page as a self contained narrative unit which interacts within a sequence.
“This One Summer,” a graphic novel written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki
Paradise Regained by Duane Michals (1968) gelatin silver print with hand applied text
Chance Meeting by Duane Michals (1970) gelatin silver prints with hand applied text
Moon Games by Laurent Laveder
Storytelling
(Lecture by Jane Anderson)
Storytelling is one of the most important aspects of any creative, and a creative must be able to tell stories with their work.
When we see, hear, smell or touch something, our memory retrieves contextual information about the stimuli and builds a narrative around it.
Nero science has shown that our cognitive systems are higher hardwired for telling stories because of our memory capacity.
Storytelling happens since the beginning of our species.
Before the men learn to write and read, he had to rely on memory to learn. Priest, Judges and Ruler were ones of the most important people who've been great at storytelling.
Storytelling has the ability to connect people with each other, to the past, to the future and with the world around us.
A good story provokes our emotions, communicates information and messages.
We can tell a story by type, image,...
Artwork by Bethanne Hill
“Bethanne Hill isn’t trying to create realistic scenes in her paintings. “It’s like storytelling,” she says, “where embellishing with lots of details makes it interesting.”
Text by Linda Wright / Photography by John O’Hagan
Typography
Typography as the power to affect the readability and the reader's feeling. We should apply the right font and typeface according to the subject. If we look at a typeface choice, we can understand the text's subject without even reading it.
Typeface ≠ Font
Type ≠ Lettering
Legibility ≠ Readability
A typeface is basically a collection or family of characters, letters, numerals, symbols and punctuation and they belong to a distinct design (light, roman, italic, bold,etc...).
Most of the typefaces are classified into four basic groups, Serif, Sans-serif, Script and Decorative.
A font is the physical way used to create a typeface, it can be by using a stencil, a typewriter, letterpress blocks, etc...
Most of the typefaces are classified into four basic groups, Serif, Sans-serif, Script and Decorative.
Typography is the style and the art of arranging type.
Lettering is the act/art/technique of inscribing letters.
Legibility is how easy a text is due to clear letters, good printing, etc. Readability is the flow of content and how easy it is to read it.