Understanding Visual Culture with the Open College of the Arts
The last module of level 1 of a Fine Art degree.
Feedback took place in the form of a written report. I took my tutor’s advice and revisited the assignment, trimming the history a little and using another example of Nam June Paik to extend the point about participation versus voyeurism. I also trimmed out the section about box-office sales. It was suggested that I look …
Continue reading “Reflections on Part Five, and on the course as a whole.”
Feed back took place as a written report. These are strange times for everyone, and I freely admit that my studies have taken a back seat for a few weeks. I work in the health-care profession and recently I have not had the brain-space to think about my studies; but the dust is settling a …
I admit to becoming a little frustrated with UVC. I am enjoying the research elements, and discovering new paths of thought, and hopefully am learning to harness what I discover in structured writing. I am missing practical work: I was led to believe before I began this course that it had been re-written to include …
I feel it is sufficient to have written reports at the moment: these seem to suit both me and my tutor. Overall comments from Michele are that she can see I have put good effort into part 2 , with a developing and more secure voice. Going forwards it is noted that it wold be …
I admit to having problems with understanding the notion of the simulacrum. It has caused much head-scratching, and I have struggled with trying to understand the relevance with all this. I found Baudrillard’s “Simulacra and Simulation” but found it impossible to understand. It was peppered with phrases like “whereas representation attempts to absorb simulation by …
This is the transcript from a short film published at art21.org. McCollum is speaking in 2010. My interest in the way we construct emblems is something I’ve been thinking a lot about more lately because it seems to cover my very earliest work to my very present work and when I started, for instance; my …
Continue reading “Allan McCollum: talking about his Surrogate Paintings and Plaster Surogates.”
I am always seeing similarities between pieces of art. Sometimes they make sense, sometimes they probably don’t but I thought it would make sense to record them, as they pop up in my head! Anish Kapoor and Amedeo Modigliani The first is Anish Kapoor’s monumental piece Dismemberment which made me think of Modigliani’s limestone “Head” …
Laid up with a heavy cold for a couple of days, I took to the BBC iPlayer to find something to relieve the ennui of Lemsip and tissues. I found a drama called The Capture, which concerns the use of CCTV images for evidence in criminal cases. The plot revolves around the corruption of this …
Today I had my first tutorial. Here are the main points I took from it: UVC (Part One) Tutorial with Michele Whiting 20 September 2019 General points How to reflect: going forward, reflection will become more critical, and my way of reflecting hopefully will become a “real surefire underpinning” for studio practice. It’s important …
I’ve been going to life-drawing classes for about 18 months now. So far, Understanding Visual Culture is more about reading and understanding than it is about practical work, so these classes are very useful for keeping my observational skills sharp while I learn. I intend to weave practical work into the theoretical, and while these …
Understanding Visual Culture with the Open College of the Arts