Chapter 3 questions

Celeste Olalquiaga describes the postmodern experience as: an individual experiencing a major transformation of perception and consciousness and that the body now exists in a new kind of time and place. Do you agree with what she describes of the new body? What do you think had the greatest affect when undergoing this change? 

The author states that the way new knowledge is acquired is through apperception and distraction.  Do you agree with this statement?

Walter Benjamin states that “the body becomes more mechanized at the same rate the computer becomes more “friendly”. The boundaries between the spheres of the body and of technology have begun to transgress, overlay, and blur.” Do you think he is right when he describes how the body is further distance from tactility and everything is beginning to blend together? How do you think this blend has affected the art world?

Questions for Reading Discussions: "The Medium is the Massage"

My two questions for discussion include:

McLuahn states that people tend to focus on the obvious, which is the content that provides valuable information but tend to miss the structural changes or changes made over long periods of time. Why is it that we as humans don’t realize the social implication of the medium until after the change or until someone points them out?

Each visual illustration within the book plays a specific role. What “effect” or “massage” did the pictures throughout the book have on your human sensorium?

Project #2 Animation

This assignment is an extension of my first Las Vegas assignment. My goal was to make the montage come alive. Within each frame of the animation I changed my center point and focused on different aspects of the overall images.

Project #2 Animation

This assignment is an extension of my first Las Vegas assignment. My goal was to make the montage come alive. Within each frame of the animation I changed my center point and focused on different aspects of the overall images.

Las Vegas- Montage #3

My third and final montage was focused around the aspect of gambling. It brings out a new perspective of the other side of Las Vegas. I enlarged the dice, cards, chips and the roulette table to center the viewer’s attention.  I faded the pictures into the city’s landmarks to show my friends and I within the city’s boundaries and within its craziness.  I tried to show that the photos are less important than what the city has to offer. Altogether, I feel that each one of my montages are too busy, but I feel that the busyness fits with the city’s atmosphere.

Las Vegas- Montage #2

Since my first montage was very busy I tried to have a focal point within my second montage. I put the Las Vegas words in the middle with the pictures around it to try to bring out the importance of the photos that were taken during my Las Vegas trip. Without my friends, this trip would have never taken place.  Although this montage was still somewhat busy I feel that there is more of a focus. Again, I was still having fun with the tools and options I had within Photoshop. 

Las Vegas- Montage #1

My first montage illustrates how other people and I may think of Las Vegas and the specific landmarks that represent this city. I also chose to illustrate Las Vegas because I just took a trip there, and the memory was fresh in my mind. In this first piece I was mostly just playing around with Photoshop and learning all the various tools within the software. I do not like how it turned out to be very busy, and I think it needs some focus.