Homework 1

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Aesthetic force is power that is formed with the concern of beauty or the ultimate appreciation of beauty, focusing on a particular artistic element. It allows a gateway to form in the artistic world that allows individuals to rationally have the ability to form thoughts that are influencing their everyday actions and inspirations. As Sarah Lewis mentioned in her clip featured in Episode 1 of the Big Think: Think Again Podcast, she referenced within the spontaneous podcast that Frederick Douglass inspired her by his thoughts during the Civil War, in which he stated "it wouldn't be combat that would get America to have a new vision of itself, but pictures, pictures he said, and the thought pictures that thought they create in the mind, that we could slip through the back door of our rational thought and see the world differently". She used this reference to focus on the argument that pictures have influenced the events of monumental historical events, due through the element of photographs. Aesthetic force has been what has shifted and turned the tide of justice, it is a force that affects the most impactful movements within the country. 

Subjectivity is quantified into how many people are liking a particular photograph and becoming more apart of tension competition. Society has been evolved around the commercialized idea that produces an ultimate standing money value. As an example from the Big Think: Think Again Podcast, mediate subjectivity happens when one goes to the movie, which is a form of art, more specifically film and cinematography. This trip has been designed not only with the building and layout, but the process of purchasing tickets and the experience that is associated commonly with going to the movie. Viewing art in the darkness and with no cell phones or distracts allows the audience to disconnect and focus on the current realistic situation before them. As told in the podcast, it is a fusion for condition and a dream, it's ultimately a daydreaming atmosphere that allows an individual to internalize what they are viewing in a clear state of mind. Context is created within the element that is set up for the viewing of particular art within a given medium. 

Cinema is the greatest "engine of compassion", due to the breaks through the screen that creates the "reality for the virtual" that allows the viewer to experience a transformation due to the experience that is created for a particular film. Following the film, it gives individuals the opportunity to feel an emotion from the art coming across, that allows the individual the ability and urge to want to share and reciprocate the emotions of this film. In New Media in Late 20th Century Art, Gene Youngblood wrote, "all art is experimental", "or it isn't art". This is a reflection of the individual state of mind the artist has to register within as well, in comparison to the viewer that is processing the art. The artist should consider and rethink the possibilities of interpretation for a given piece of art, whether it is a painting, video, photograph, sculpture, or a form of dance. Each form of art entails a different expression and given meaning associated it that is open for individual interpretation. 

Everyday activities fall under different forms of conscious awareness within society depending on the viewpoint of the individual. Everyday actions are often mislead or misinterpreted, that in return produces a more subjective outlook. As pointed out in the Big Think: Think Again Podcast by the host, everyday life is noisy and in order to grasp the ability to move into subjectivity the individual has to be able to shut out the noise and adjust their settings to fit the experience. The artist has the ability to break through the resistance, as well as individuals have the ability to be selective on what their reception should entail. 

In today's society, new media was inspired throughout the text in New Media in Late 20th Century Art, that art has been forming into a watershed period of a technological advancement. Art has transformed into a field that was "once dominated by engineers and technicians". The evolving transformation of new materials as well as new forms of media allows the individual to continue to expand the experimentation curiosity that art provides. 

Tying in the piece and element of photography, the online gallery for the Smithsonian American Art Museum features a work of art titled "Cory Arcangel", which is a depicted piece of artwork that was formulated through the realms of photoshop. Without the advancements of art and the continuing expansion of history pertaining to art, society would not have the ability to continue to grow, and for that the blessings of technology advancements are only adding to the realm of the art world and the different mediums art can provide. 

Lastly, Mark Batterson, American pastor and author of Washington, DC, stated in a comparison, "New Media is like a megaphone. It amplifies your ability to reach more people." This particular quote recognizes the evolving expansion of art history into a beneficial opportunity that allows the world the ability to connect on a new level.