Bolt opens this investigation into art beyond representation with a particularly poignant statement which resonates loudly with regards my research: ‘Art is a representational practice and its products are representations’ (2010). Upon reading this I quickly scanned and printed out the first 2 chapters of this book in order to be freely able to annotate as I read. The image shown here is one such page, I have been reading and gathering in this manner […]
Here are a couple of really valuable quotes from Baudrillards’s book The Ecstasy of Communication, I will no doubt be drawing from this book in my future research. ‘Today the scene and the mirror have given way to a screen and a network.” (2012, 20) “The public stage, the public place have been replaced by a gigantic circulation, ventilation, and ephemeral connecting space.” (2012, 25) Baudrillard, J., 2012, The ecstasy of communication, Semiotext(e), Los Angeles
Over the past couple of days I have read Vilem Flusser’s book Towards A Philosophy Of Photography. Here are some of quotes I found to be of particular interest to me: “The Magical nature of images must be taken into account when decoding them. Thus it is wrong to look for ‘Frozen Events’ in images. Rather they replace events by states of things and translate them into scenes.” (2013: 9) I find this to be […]
Having read some Walter Benjamin today in the Library this quote is lingering in my mined. I cant quite get my head around the intended meaning here and weather this is somehow a double negative or just an out right statement. The language seems at first straight forward and then quickly decimates in my mind into contradictory outcomes which are hard to articulate. ‘What Shrinks in an age where the work of art can be reproduced […]
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