This chapter broadens the application of simulation to a larger environment and discusses the relationship between the law and crime, demands and production, the game of power… In my opinion, Baudrillard is a Nihilist. He believes everything is hyperreal and simulation. The hyperreal system conceals that there is nothing beneath. People working in a factoryContinueContinue reading “Simulations 4 and little update”
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Simulations 3
This chapter is quite philosophical and hard to read, so I did a lot of extra readings on Baudrillard’s idea. (also why this post is late) Fundamentally, Baudrillard is illustrating the point that any second-order simulation is essentially a third-order simulation. This links to The Precession of Simulacra chapter where he points out four phasesContinueContinue reading “Simulations 3”
Post No.5 (follow up)
Follow-ups on my project: I made a brief plan for this term. First, I’m aiming to produce one final picture at the end. For this weekend and next week, I’ll be learning software skills and practice on them. At the middle of the term, I’m planning to make two small pictures from draft to finish,ContinueContinue reading “Post No.5 (follow up)”
Project Idea
Since this is a a large project through the whole term and I’m also taking a photography course, I don’t want to take more photographs. I see myself as a person that isn’t super into new media art, such as performance art, digital art etc. But started with this initial tiring of photography, I wantContinueContinue reading “Project Idea”
Simulations 2
“For ethnology to live, its object must die.”—Jean Baudrillard “Simulation p13” It is such an irony that for this subject to continue, its object must be died or will going to be. Taking the subject out of its living context is like taking a whale out of the ocean and place it in aquarium. TheContinueContinue reading “Simulations 2”
Simulations 1
While reading the section, I kept relating the text to my experience. Are the idols that I admire really who they are when presented on media, or else they are my inner fascinations? It is hardly able to find out. They are packaged perfectly by companies and polished by the media. Perhaps they are theContinueContinue reading “Simulations 1”
Final Project
My final project consists of some archive photos and rephotographs. I found all the old photographs online, and then made a “modern version” of them. https://flic.kr/s/aHsmM4As4j My goal is to help the viewers to see through time. It is easy for people to forget history and forget to give credits to what was new thenContinueContinue reading “Final Project”
William Wordsworth in The Medium is the Massage
It was hard to accurately describe the connection between these two people in a sentence. After I rewrote and reread for tons of times, dig deeper and deeper, I came up with this one: Wordsworth and McLuhan both think that seeing is not as important as the ability to feel, as everything coexists at theContinueContinue reading “William Wordsworth in The Medium is the Massage”
Something is Happening
Since I had experience on photography exhibition in my previous photograph class, I was pretty familiar with the whole procedure. I ordered a new art book in the premium magazine instead of the economy so that the cover and pages are harder and I can also edit some layouts that I didn’t like on theContinueContinue reading “Something is Happening”
Sound Sound Sound
I’d like you to listen to the piece first 👉 Soundcloud link When I heard about the prompt, I thought about a story I read long ago. A famous Chinese MC told the interviewer that he enjoys listening to “sounds”, like the sound of nature, ambient sound, and languages. He once had a recorder in hisContinueContinue reading “Sound Sound Sound”
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