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College Admissions Glossary of Terms - Anil Khare

The college admissions glossary is a list of important terms that every student has to know. It is very common to find students who attend a top school and apply to that college, only to find out that there are many other top options available.

College Admissions Glossary of Terms - Anil Khare

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1. “Two rivers and a desert between” by Noam Toran 2. Collaborative Project: "I cling to virtue" by Noam Toran and Onkar Kular

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Producer as Storyteller - “Noam Toran and Onkur Kular”

Noam Toran’s work involves the creation of sophisticated and baroque narratives developed to disrupt the ruling historiographies. Drawing from neglected histories, he reflects upon the lack of relations of memory, mythology, identity and the essential force of storytelling as embodied in archives, film, literature and performance. His work is materialized through dramatizations. Onkar Kular’s work investigates how contemporary design practice, its processes, methodologies and outputs, can be used as a medium to engage with and question the understanding of cultural and popular issues.  Toran and Kular have worked collaboratively developing some projects. The pair was interested in cinematic objects, the property as protagonist.  I will talk about “Two rivers and a desert between” by Noam Toran which is a 4 minutes short movie, an elaborate narrative and a cinematic meditation on the “West”. The narrative is organized as a fictional story-cycle. The project traverses multiple genres from the conventions of the western and sci-fi, from sculpture and performance art to cinema.  One of the collaborative projects that these two had was “I Cling to Virtue” which is a mixed-media collection of items, texts and videos that reveal the intricate paths of a fictional English clan. The project takes the grand historical, literary and cinematic traditions of the family saga simultaneously as its starting point and point of departure. ​

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Producer as Curator - “Taste”

The word “taste” has the following meanings: 1.  the sensation of flavor perceived in the mouth and throat on contact with a substance; 2.  a person’s liking for particular flavors. ( but not only) At first, my mind went instantly to food - me being a gourmand, but then I realized that it is not about the taste of food or drink, but about a person’s individual preferences, the distinctions that one makes between styles, art, manners and so on. It represents an ability to critique and recognize what is good and suitable for an individual. Taste is subjective. We have compared two types of curation, conventionaland social, so the real world and the online world. These involve the individual’s taste.   The key words that define conventional/content curation would be taste maker, mass variation, communities and subjective. Having this content curation we benefit from a wide range of available content. The key words for the social curation are media platform, internet, third party, collaborative filtering and algorithm. Social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and even Youtube often use curation algorithms to match content to user tastes. Introducing curation on these platforms makes consumers less selective and increases connectivity. This algorithm creates a filter bubble and gives suggestions to an individual by making use of his individual taste. For example, if one watches a video with dogs on Facebook, later on there will appear more and more related videos as suggestions.

“Art and life are subjective. Not everybody’s gonna dig what I dig, but I reserve the right to dig it.” - Whoopi Goldberg.

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Producer as Designer - “Brutalist Architecture”

“Brutalist” is a French term that translates as ‘raw art’​. This word was invented by artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art such as graffiti or naive art which is made outside the academic tradition of fine art. This can therefore be seen as lowbrow. Brutalism within web design is intended to make an impression on a user by breaking rules on functionality and aesthetics. Some of the biggest companies in the world are on board with these trends and are making it a success​. Brutalism within building architecture is mainly based on raw construction materials such as concrete, but others like glass, steel, bricks can also be used. Brutalism can be seen as a reaction by a younger generation to the lightness and optimism. This type of architecture doesn’t concern itself with looking nice, clean and comfortable. Prince Charles of Wales name the brutalist constructions as being just “piles of concrete”. Many critics find it unappealing due to its raw and rigid look.   Brutalism today has been improved significantly in a way that concrete now is sandblasted in order to create a stone-like surface and it also contains patterned elements. The pictures show the old type of brutalism and the new one in comparison.

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Producer as Activist - “Forensic Architecture”

“Forensic Architecture” represents a research group based at Goldsmiths, University of London that uses architectural techniques and technologies to investigate cases of state violence and violations of human rights around the world. The leader of this group is the architect Eyal Weizman. The team is formed of people practicing different jobs: architects, scholars, artists, film makers, software developers, journalists, lawyers and more. Forensic Architecture’s methods place visual material, and spatial and architectural analysis, at the heart of every investigation, both as sources and outputs of our research.   The agency develops new evidential techniques and undertakes advanced architectural and media research with and on behalf of communities affected by state violence, and routinely works in partnership with international prosecutors, human rights organisations and political and environmental justice groups.​

The image shown represents one of their exhibited works, that is called “Counter Investigations” in London. ​Counter Investigations presents a selection of  investigations by Forensic Architecture. These address cases including the racist murder of a man in Kassel, Germany by a member of a far-right group, and instances of deferred responsibility by state agencies that have contributed to the deaths of migrants at sea in the Mediterranean. As historically contextualized interrogations of contemporary social and political processes, these investigations put forward a form of ‘counter-forensics’. 

“ Such exhibitions are a vital opportunity to disseminate not only our findings but our research techniques.” - Forensic Architecture Team   

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