moments of contemplation – Week 10 Lecture

  • Emphasizing moments of contemplation:
    – poetic approach, openness of form
    – the amount of glue sticking the parts together
    – looseness
    – viewer working out and contemplating the relation between the parts
    – not going through the work in a cause and effect way
  • Timed keywords – slow down the work internally
  • Think about how we build within camera and in the work: eg, 30 different views of a teacup in a different light and at different times of day
  • Repetition
  • What about the user’s media literacy? How do we know how much glue to use?
  • The more gaps the more high art, whereas popular literature try to remove the gaps
  • We can make our work as banal or sophisticated as we want: online means that if it is any good it will find an audience
  • Associative relations = more abstract, eg shape, colour, movement, mood
  • Don’t portray an emotion – build a way for your audience to experience an emotion
  • The more literal, the more banal
  • Know the difference between showing and telling
  • As humans we like to find patterns: without them we interpret things as chaotic and messy
  • Infer rather than portray – subtlety
  • Risk of losing cohesion – sketch, show, make changes. Start with the shell and keep building
  • When you look at an artwork you’re not necessarily looking for a narrative or a conclusion, you’re looking for meaning
  • In traditional media things have a definitive ending: a book has a last page
  • The rules of engagement with online media have changed. The user dictates when they’ve seen enough of the K film – they takes their meaning away and can come back and take something different away if they choose, etc
  • Kuleshov experiment – it demonstrates that meaning is not internal to the shot, it’s established through the relations between the clips. By changing the sequence of shots, the shot’s meaning changes
  • Things are made up of parts, and the relations between them matters. With media such as Korsakow we can now have multiple relations between things
  • Correlations can be as open or as strict as we like

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