Look At Me Look At You

What is significantly different about the act of making when the object of the maker is an image of the maker?

The following assigments are due Monday, March 3:

Make a copy of the following article. Read and Annotate your copy and write a (350 word-count at least) response that includes your thoughts on the topics brought up in the article, your experience with self-image using any of the recent technology including Webcam, Cellular Cam-Phone, Digital Video or Photography, MySpace or Facebook or other imaging device. Discuss what is brought up in your thinking when you make a self image. Use MLA formating for your typed edition. So that other classmates can share in your thinking, make a 50 word-count comment to this page about self-image

As a way of entering into a deliberation on the topic of self-imaging and reflectivity in contemporary art please use the following link that will take you to…

Watch Me! Webcams and the Public Exposure of Private Lives
Brooke A. Knight
Art Journal > Vol. 59, No. 4 (Winter, 2000), pp. 21-25
Stable URL: http://ezhc.ez.cwmars.org:4000/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/browse/00043249/ap030159

Effigy of the Art Dealer Mike Tillyer

Thats Head is a Gift of Driftwood

from the Painter Ryan McDonnell

Holding a Painting by the Painter

Ryan McDonnell

of the Head of the Effigy

of the Art Dealer Mike Tillyer

Standing with McDonnell (left) and Tillyer (right)

Clay Vessel

How old does a thing have to be to be ancient? Ancient wisdom is so because it is timeless? Eternity belongs to all time? Is eternity at hand?