I found the site Keywords to Media Theory well designed and comprehensive. It does not have any distracting graphics making navigating through it easy and seamless. Keywords within the texts are highlighted in blue and connected to definition links. Overall a very good, imformative sight. Regarding the two essays on simulation and simulacrum-in my view the first essay by Devin Sandoz, although started off interesting, contained convoluted academic speak conjuring up an image of a dog chasing its tail but never getting anywhere. Joanna Topor essay is the opposite a lot easier to understand and comprehensive. More contemporary, contextual examples would have been a bonus but the examples given served their purpose. Referencing was good although Devin’s bibliography left a lot to be desired. In both essays there was no existance to websites or links that could backup the arguments ie http://orbit.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/gallery.html.
Filed under: e-tivity04-0708, sousan, tiip
Theory.org.uk is OK if you want a quick rundown of the philosophers and academics in the world of critical theory, media and arts. I found the trading cards interesting although I was expecting to look at the flip side but to no avail. I looked at the bell hooks one but it didn’t say much, what did stand out is that her weakness is ’she dared to criticise Madonna’??? Maybe they are trying to make the website into a sort of an intro to Media Studies for Idiots. In my opinion it is a promotional website for David Gauntlett. If you want more info then you can buy the book, the cards, the t-shirt etc…. I was a bit puzzled when I read this sentence Academics have found it difficult to establish what identity means, so that at times it has been reduced to a set of categories such as gender, ethnicity, and physical ability (each of which becomes more fuzzy itself, when inspected closely). ‘ Please inspect the text in bold. What does it mean??
Anyway my contribution to performativity in daily life-I don’t know if this is relevant but I once filmed myself working in my studio. I was told by friends that in there view I was becoming a bit OCD about a piece I was working on that involved ripping bits of material and knotting them together onto a a framework to form a web. I decided to film the process for myself. Watching myself work was eye-opening, I suppose I wasn’t expecting to see myself obsess over an artwork in that way. A few days later I was burgled and the camera, tape and all were lost forever. Ironically the work ended up in a skip- but I didn’t get to film that-no camera!!!
Filed under: e-tivity06-0708, sousan, tiip
My project centres on the notion of word manipulation. I have been concentrating on embedding words, sentences and paragraphs that are evocative, philosophical or political, into word puzzles. I’m attempting to get into the mind of the audience. You might be seeing the word ‘youth’ but in fact it is part of a sentence pertaining to truth or lies. Indulging in word puzzles is an activity we choose to conduct while we are at rest, whiling away the time until a doctor’s appointment or as a distraction on a long journey. Advertising Corporations, especially in the USA have been using subliminal messages in tv ads for decades, it is illegal in the UK. In the 2000 presidential elections in the US the Republican National Committee flashed the word ‘RATS’ over Democratic candidtates Al Gore’s prescription drug proposal, being aired on tv. Bush denied any wrong doing. Did it work in persuading some voters to vote Republican?
Anyway the project is still in it embryonic phase. Check out my attachment.
belief.doc
My initial title is ‘Disturbing the Peace’ but I’m sure this might change.
Filed under: e-tivity 01-07/08, sousan
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