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CMS.405 Media and Methods: Seeing and Expression Spring 2009

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• Likeness: the self in the other

• Disseminating information and cultural ideas

• Synthetic memory: objectify and immortalize

• Mirroring the self (special case of the self portrait)

Portraits and Self-Portraits

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• likeness of the self in the other - leaving a sign of being there

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Dynamic figure tradition: Ubirr (ca 40,000?-presemt http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/ubir/hd_ubir.htm

Images removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see Kjellgren, Eric. "Ubirr (ca. 40,000?–present)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2000. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hg/hg_d_ubir_d1map.jpg http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/images/h2/h2_ubirr3.jpg

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http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/SculpturePrize03/Detail.cfm?IRN=122544&BioArtistIRN=16314&MnuID=5

PUAUTJIMI, Mark

Australia 1965

Purukuparli - The Tiwi Warrioi 2002

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/SculpturePrize03/Images/LRG/122544.jpg

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• synthetic memory: objectify and immortalize

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• coin pair

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Moche Portrait Vase 400A.D .Larco Museum Collection

excavated

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_art

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Images from Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org

A Mayan stone carving of Pacal the Great c. 650 AD

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palenque

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Museo del sitio Palenque Ruins

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Museo_del_sitio-_Palenque_Ruins.jpg

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see http://www.flickr.com/photos/hummanna/337077/

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A typical portrait from 1634, when Rembrandt

was enjoying great commercial success.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Portrait of

Saskia van Uylenburg, ca. 1635.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rembrandt

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Rodin#The_Burghers_of_Calais

Monument to Balzac (1891–1898).Images from Wikimedia Commons, http://commons.wikimedia.org

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http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/Isabella_Stewart_Gardner.htm

John Singer SargentIsabella Stewart Gardiner

//link to movie//

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object carries synthetic memory surrogate experience stimulates imagination

pleasure of back story - it is pleasurable to know who the model of Europa was

//tie to lecture 1 and 5 //mediate fear or stimulate pleasure and desire

myth you make an idyl, you can see, handle transforming shapeless fear into something tangeable

- desire more through synthetic adventure lumiere, train tracks

Porter: great train robbery robber putting gun in faceJAWs//

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• Mirroring the self, the other and society

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Daughters of Edward Darley Bolt1882

Natasha EssayMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston

Oil on canvas 221.9 x 222.6 cm (87 3/8 x 87 5/8 in.)

Gift of Mary Louisa Boit, Julia Overing Boit, Jane Hubbard Boit, and Florance D. Boit. In memory of

their Father, Edward Darley Boit

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daumierthomas nast (brought down tamany hall because even

people who couldn’t read could understand pictures and invented santa clause)

Visual literacy (church, political cartoons)amt of likeness necessary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nast

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http://www.germanheritage.com/biographies/mtoz/nast3.jpg

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Excerpt from Leacock, Richard. On the Pole. Robert Drew Associates, 1960. In the sequence, the race cardriver, Eddie Sachs, describes how he drives; he then prepares for and starts in the Indianapolis 500.

• Mirroring the self (special case of the self portrait)

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Self Portrait, 1658, a masterpiece of

the final style, "the calmest and

grandest of all his portraits".[42]

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Van Gogh, Self Portrait 1886Oil on Canvas, Paris: Autumn, 1886

The Hague Haags Gemeentemuseum, F: 178v, JH: 1198

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Self portrait with Straw Hat, 1887

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/2105/Self-Portrait-with-Straw-Hat.html

Painting, Oil on Canvas, Paris: Summer, 1887Amsterdam Van Gogh Museum, F: 469, JH: 1310

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Van Gogh, Self Portrait,

http://www.vangoghgallery.com/catalog/Painting/2119/Self-Portrait.html

Oil on Canvas, Saint-Rémy: September, 1889Paris Musée d'Orsay, F: 627, JH: 1772

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Courtesy of Cyrus Shaoul. Used with permission.

the dynamic self26

Hugo Liu, Identity Mirror, 2004 computer, video camera, display - size variable

New Text

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see http://larifari.org/labs/labs-identitymirror.gif

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Myron Kruger, Videoplace, 1970

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see any description of Krueger's Videoplace installation, such as http://www.jtnimoy.net/itp/newmediahistory/videoplace/

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"The responsive environment has been presented as the basis for a new aesthetic medium based on real-time

interaction between men and machines. " ---- Myron Kruger, 1970

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Daniel Rozin, Mechanical Mirrors Wooden Mirror, Isreali Museum, 1999

830 square pieces of wood, 830 servo motors, control electonics, video camera, computer, wood frame

http://www.smoothware.com/danny/woodenmirrormov.html

Image removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see http://www.smoothware.com/danny/woodenmirror.html

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Daniel Rozin, Software Mirrors Mirror #5, 2001

Projected screen, computer video camera, custom software, size variable

http://www.smoothware.com/danny/mirror5.html

Images removed due to copyright restrictions. Please see http://www.smoothware.com/danny/mirror258.jpg http://www.smoothware.com/danny/mirror5.jpg

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Texts Hugo Lui, Glorianna Davenport, Self-reflexive performance: dancing with the computed audience of culture, PADM, 2004

WWW ref assigned reading: http://www.artmuseum.net/ Daniel Rozin web site, http://www.smoothware.com/danny/ Myron Krueger, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myron_Krueger Myron Kruger, http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/timeline/Krueger.html

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Mom movie - puzzle at edge lea

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• marc downie

• Hockney

• maude morgan

• isabella stewart gardiner Europa

• sedna

• my mother and movie my mother

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• edison invented the phonograph, he had the idea that it for recording and preserving the voices of the dead

• recall of the voice was important

• ancient stone monument important to ancient king

• ~synthetic memory /recall

• history of coins

The other

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• Synthetic memory - associative, reflective, generative

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