FAH291H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Schizoanalysis, Hollis Frampton, Nam June Paik
1 Dec 2016
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Spiral jetty: 1500 foot spiral at the great salt lake, counteracts nature"s force of decomposition. Idea that the medium can be used to [resent information or make statements rather than setting up a transcendental aesthetic experience. Detached and impersonal work involved construction of typologies. Designed to violate the photographic norms of aesthetic beauty. Rely on scientific procedures for gathering evidence only to deconstruct and subvert these same strategies: not to always trust what we are told or what we think we are seeing. Misreading of natural phenomena and sardonic commentaries on the history or art and photography. Reusing and repurposing art or commercial imagery. Copyright has become the right to copy: richard prince. New portraits - blown up instagram pictures selling at 100k. To talk about the postmodernist generation of photo-based artists who used strategies of appropriation and parody in their works that draw inspiration from mass media image and consumer culture.
