The Network Image

A network image is an image taken the speed across all forms of media, usually twitter, facebook and instagram. usually focusing on everyday situations and making them funny or readable to consumers. 

on average people spend 20+ minutes on facebook everyday, this may not seem lots but thats 121.6 hours/ 5 whole days a year. nothing can happen on social media without people finding out in 24hrs, nothing is a secret on social media in the 21st century. Vines and “memes” are very popular on social, they create a lot of attentions and views/likes.

Interactive Documentary

An interactive documentary is a document production that is different to the traditional forms of audio, video and photographic, it uses different multimedia tools. It creates a non-linear production the combines media tools, text, audio, video, animation, photography and graphics, making it different to any other documentary.

Over the generations the documentary genre has evolved, in the 21st century documentary are heavy pace and very realistic, its not just a series of images its live footage and interviews.

Technology has advanced to new ways, creating interactive documentaries, such as the Samsung Gear VR Oculus. The gadget allows the audiences to view the documentary as if they were there.

Gazing at Identity

In this lecture the discussion was on Psychoanalysis and the sexual gaze adverts attract. freud theory was also introduced into it, on how visual imagery can influence the consumers view, which connects the Laura Mulvey’s theory ‘The Male Gaze’, how men look at women? how women look at themselves? an d how women look at other women?. The gaze is all about women being processed and shown as objects in adverts. most adverts have the women looking at the male or the male only looking at the females body not face. 

 American appeal ran a campaign going on the gaze but which created an uproar by the public, they disagreed with the excessive nudity and thought it was unnecessary. it was referred to as pornographic. looking at the adverts myself i do agree the adverts have been made on a sexual intention. For example their “now open” advert with the model with her legs postponed open portrays that the copy is referring to her being open which is a sexual intention.

Henry Moore Institute - The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics

The exhibition explores how sculpture and medical science have expanded a grown over the years, originally starting in the first world war helping injured victims look and feel more like themselves. 

During the First World War prosthetics technology rapidly advanced. As shattered soldiers became a familiar sight in public life after 1914, both artists and surgeons alike sought to remake what had been lost. Sculptors Anna Coleman Ladd and Francis Derwent Wood worked directly with surgeons, creating facial masks for soldiers injured in the trenches.

The exhibition shows many examples of their work, their was a series of images that showed the process of them creating a half mask replacing soldiers eye socket, the would get photos of the solider to make the mask look as reality as possible.

Folk and Outsider Art

Outsider are is art that is created out of the boundaries of official cultures, usually self taught, mostly created by people with mental illnesses. Outside art is the equivalent for the french term “art brut”, meaning “raw” or “uncooked” art, used to describe art made by the mental patients. 

Van Gogh was an outsider of the arts at the start of his career, him himself had many metal illnesses.

examples of outsider artists and their work;

• Adolf Wolfli, was one of the first artiest to be assisted with outside art, he was the most influential outsider artist. His artworks were created at a mental asylum near Bern in Switzerland, where he spent rest of his life. He was sexually and physically abused as a child, his father also was a criminal and alcoholic that could of contributed to the reason he developed a mental illness. He worked on a pencil till it got to 5mm, he also had a fear of entry  spaces, which is portrayed in his work as he had no space that wasn't filled.   

• Lee Godie, photographer. She was homeless of 30 years, but choose to be homeless. lee did self portraits, she took the photos in a train station booth,. every “shoot” lee was a different character and would add something to every image with a pen.