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
March 2, 2008 at 3:36 pm |
In my opinion, it takes a certain type of person to broadcast their life with the entire world. Quite frankly, these attention hungry exhibitionist qualities are something that I seem to lack. As a result, I don’t see any purpose in the concept. In my day to day life I really make an attempt to avoid trouble and to maintain my privacy. The webcam throws these goals out the window. I could never sleep at night if there were a chance that some peeping tom was getting off on my vulnerability. Furthermore, I see no artistic value to something as degrading and simple as a streaming live video of someone’s life.
March 2, 2008 at 7:27 pm |
Is it automatic that, if an artist–or a non-artist for that matter–uses media to look at oneself, then the motivation is attention-hungry or exhibitionist? Is there a difference between exhibitionism and hunger for attention? Does image making need to have value beyond simple existence as an image?
March 5, 2008 at 3:51 pm |
An artist must be self-centered, you know- meaning centered upon oneself. If you’re not centered upon yourself then what are you centered on, what are you creating from? If you’re ever going to reach anyone you first have to reach yourself. It’s absurd to think you can try and create anything from beyond you. I think that’s what a lot of people try and do. Try to create from something other than themselves, someone other than themselves and it turns out completely awful. You’re your own blueprint. The artist has to be self-absorbed. It’s the curse but it’s also a luxury.
April 9, 2008 at 12:38 pm |
Invite me to be an author, Mr. Tillyer!!!