#image world

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transformation imagination

Let’s do an imagination exercise. Imagine yourself transforming in any ways you like. Imagine your skin change colors, your hair grow and shrink, wings sprouting out of your back, your toenails painted or growing into long swirls. Imagine your skin turning to shiny mermaid scales, then to feathers then to tiny bubbles.... imagine your feet sinking into the earth, your hair growing up into the sky. Your arms spreading out across the whole universe. Feel your body sensations as you imagine your body changing. You can keep it simple or imagine as elaborately as you like... notice how you feel as your self image shifts. I like to imagine tiny flowers blooming out of me, all over

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Image World

The second gallery on our tour last Tuesday was Sprüth Magers and the Gretchen Bender exhibition, Image World: “Gretchen Bender gained renown in the 1980s as a key observer of the effects of capitalist society and mass media on the human experience.”

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PZ326 - Library Mischief

1000 pieces; 20 x 27 inches

Depicts seven playful kittens playing  on or near a book-filled shelf and desk with related materials on it including quill pen and ink well, glasses, globe, candles, and an oil lamp.

Company: Image World; MHS Licensing; Cra-Z-Art; La Rose Industries; Kodak, ©2020 #: 4895145487009 | #8700

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PZ053 - Running with the Pack

500 pieces; 15 x 21.25 inches

A painted depiction of three wolves in a hunting pose while a fourth looks on from slightly behind them. The scene takes place in a snow covered, wooded area next to a mountain lake.

Series: Amazing Nature Company: Image World; Buffalo Games #: 079346037940 | FT1-080520

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I took a screenshot of this photo from the university’s home page. The image shows a group of students all smiling and looking like they are having a good time. The girl in the middle is proudly wearing Tommie gear and the university’s new phrase highlighted in the corner. This is the image culture promoted here at St. Thomas. UST very proudly promotes their new phrase “for the common good” and there are images and signs everywhere on campus and on their website to show it off. On the website, there are many photos of students smiling and also of them volunteering, which greatly promotes the phrase and shows that St. Thomas students are very giving and work to promote “the common good”. The image world of the student life at St. Thomas is images of the activities and events at the school. Students take pictures at the sporting events, clubs, volunteer events and everything else that the school organizes for the students. This image world creates the sense that the university is very dedicated to providing fun things for the students to take part in. My image world here is very similar to that. I take pictures at sporting events and other activities the school organizes for us. All three of these image worlds, mine, the student life, and the university’s, show the same thing. They show what the university’s phrase tells, St. Thomas is “for the common good.”

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My image world at St. Thomas is all about social media interactions with friends whether it is showing each other pictures or videos from our personal experiences or the ones we find on Twitter or Facebook that are too funny not to share. I think the university does promote a certain image culture because they encourage students on their social media pages like Instagram and Twitter to post pictures of themselves in St. Thomas gear or at the game to show and circulate their support on the web. The image world of student life includes, at least I would say, a heavy snapchat use to communicate with each other and to show everyone where we are at and what we are doing, all while having the capability to filter the picture to make it look better or funnier.

In a close-read of this interesting picture I found online, you can tell a few things about what is changing in our image-based culture. First off, you can see that technology is being introduced to kids at a younger age than ever, and that can be looked at in both positive and negative light. On the positive side, technology increases learning opportunities and communication, but negatively it can become an addiction of social media and games that leads to little to no real-world interactions. What I am getting at is that we are moving away from the real world towards the virtual world. Sontag talks about how images/photography is a form of acquisition of things/people, events, and information. Photography is a kind of means to possess a part of reality for people, and the intense consumption of photos seems to deaden our experience of the real world.

Picture: (https://digitalhubblog.wordpress.com/)

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Here is a (not very good) picture that I took using my phone with a snapchat filter on my recent trip out to California. I took this photo because I guess it is the cliche thing to do when you visit places like Hollywood because it is something that you are excited about doing and want to capture and remember the moment as well as show everyone that you were there. Taking pictures is a way, as Susan Sontag said, “Of certifying experience…” and goes on to say that people are trying to, “convert experience into an image as a souvenir.”(9) Even more interesting is when Sontag mentions that “Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.” (9) I think the previous statement is a powerful one in the sense that most people strive to capture those moments when they are vacation as a reminder of what a great time it was and to also showcase their experiences. If Sontag were to comment on my picture think that she would say reiterate and point out how pictures (especially from a phone) cannot provide an exact replica of reality and fail to capture the true beauty of the moment no matter how hard people try. My punctum is definitely the Hollywood sign in the background because it evoked a certain excitement in me upon seeing it and just thinking about all of the movies and tv shows the sign has been shown in.