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Week 16 Rumination

The Global Flows of Visual Culture

This week, we learned about the global flows of visual culture. Global image reproduction in the 20th century. Overall improvements in color/quality, volume. Some of the hallmarks of globalization are increases cross-border migration, decline of sovereign state, and formation of communities not bound by geography. Anthropocene is the current geologic age in which humans have irreversibly altered the global environment. Anthropocene visuality is Imagined in art and visual culture. Today’s image circulation bears legacies of circulation of analog images prior to internet era such as 1440s Guttenberg press and 1790s Lithography. Overall improvements in color, quality, and volume improves in the 1980s with its digital processes for reproduction and storage and the 1990s with its internet being used for circulation, paperless viewing, sales.

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Week 14 Rumination

The Scientific Looking

This week we learned about scientific looking. This is about how looking inside the body becomes a privileged form of medical knowledge during Enlightenment. Focault also said that the anatomical dissection reveals human structure, provides classification systems linked to knowledge and power. Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man is one of earliest drawings of human as universal signifier of nature and universe. This is why it is shown everywhere all of over the world and is also why everybody recognizes the drawing. This was made for technical and artistic purposes. The human body and the fascination with dead bodies has been used in surgical theaters and museums as well. As you can see it is seen and used in many public places. A camera is supposed to capture things that the human eye can not see that is of high value. An example would be , that medical equipments like Pet scans and sonograms are supposed to see things that the human eye cannot see very closely.

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Week 13 Rumination

In this weeks class, we learned about the controversy surrounding the infamous Obama Hope poster. We learned about how there are different parodies/memes that are spin offs of the original poster. The circulation surrounding one image, can cause an imitation of others. Visual Ideographs like the Obama poster usually have four characteristics: it's easily recognizable, culture bound, warrant certain uses of power, and high order abstract. Some people use the poster for satire or political art to show different versions of Obama with failed policies to replace the hope poster. Although, certain people have committed into something that can be worn on the runway or worn as an accessory as a pin on your book bag.

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Rumination (Week #12)

In our society, because we have with active Internet use and, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.” This is called postmodernism. This is the interaction in simulated environments. This includes creations of remakes, remixes, appropriations, and pastiche