Art 330/530 Photo; “the sudden piercing awareness of another person’s presence”

Know that it's odd to skip to the back of the book right off but thought we should just get to the point of it. Think many of us know about “the sudden piercing awareness of another person’s presence” via Instagram. Or maybe that's not quite 'piercing' exactly...as we know the average Instagram view lasts about three seconds. Yet this personal connection via an image is likely 'the thing' that makes Instagram so important.
Have many of you feel that you've had the experience of knowing “the sudden piercing awareness of another person’s presence” via a photograph?
For me it's actually been the piercing awareness of two people, both photographer and subject, and it's been about being in the presence of these platinum prints, and touching the object that the artist made. And it was one of the most powerful things I ever felt.

Georgia O'Keeffe as photographed by Alfred Stieglitz in 1919. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, The Alfred Stieglitz Collection, Purchase and Gift of The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation Purchase, [LC-USZC4-6228].

Art 330/530 Photo; Hybrid Analog Process?

We have been working on trying to get something going that would help you get film, have it processed and scanned, and pay for it with our art department supply fund. The first problem is that both Fuji and Kodak's warehouses are closed. Apparently there's been hoarding going on and many retailers are out-of-stock. Two weeks ago I put in an order to Adorama and received an email today that they shipped. We'll see.

We think we found a lab we can work with! If you're interested request a pre-paid mailer from them here;

http://www.theslideprinter.com/information/contact-e6-giclee-processing/#RequestPostagePaidMailer

and let me know of your interest via email and we'll get this going!

The Artist Best Known for Breaking Out on Instagram

Daniel Arsham is an artist who is thought to have made his career happen via Instagram. His Arsham Studio site has 703,000 followers. How does this happen? Maybe because his post-apocalyptic yet nicey-nice work is consistent and easy to recognize. He's not afraid to 'sell-out' to the fashion industry. And this is a medium that wants to support the underdog rather than 'old hat'. And he has a good story to give what he's doing relevance.

New Media 340/540; The 1970s revival of the 1950s

In Simulations p.23-37 Baudrillard references quite a bit of then-recent phenomena, including Disneyland and Watergate. Disneyland may be the most profound example in the book. I've never been there, but have had many friends with children report on it and try to explain how you are overwhelmed with stimulus but the place still feels "empty" "soul-less" "surreal" etc. For a theorist to be able to unwrap how hollow nostalgia culturally exists is a monumental act, as we spiral into this being the new normal.

I've experienced similar phenomena attending 'rockabilly car shows', the nearby one being the Symco Weekender. (we got into this a bit with our intro pptx) Just a few years ago Symco was a mix of the authentic and recreations, but as of last year I was the only person there with an authentic 1950s built hot rod Ford. (the year before there were three) The nostalgia here is clearly now more about the 1970s revival of the 1950s (this link is really good) than the 1950s rockabilly period itself. There are brightly colored 'stop staring' brand fashions made of 70s-ish polyester fabrics and cartoonish, chemically rusted 'rat-rods' that parody the simplicity of a junkyard-built hot rod Ford.

The PowerPoint link below gives a bit of background on Watergate and the odd involvement of June Carter and Johnny Cash in the whole process for a little extra added hyperrealness;

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_4yV_5W77fbVx1ZE9I8-Tvwv7G3EE5hW?usp=sharing

YOU WILL NEED TO DOUBLE CLICK nixon.pptx AND THEN SELECT THE CloudConvert APP TO OPEN THE FILE OR DOWNLOAD TO YOUR HARD DRIVE.

Email me if you're having technical difficulties with the PowerPoints, getting the videos to play, etc. My newer computer opens these so effortlessly that it's not clear to me what it's doing!

340/540 New Media; The Tasaday People

Edited 1993 Nova Tasaday Documentary Part 1

If you need some background on the Tasaday (controversy) for the p13-23 Simulations reading this is good. The YouTube description by rghwd46gf sums it up quite well.

340/540 New Media; Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising

Last term we watched Kustom Kar Kommandos, Anger's short that featured Hot Rod culture. Here's another by Anger, again think about the possible circumstances of making the film, and what may be unsettling about it, or maybe it just seems corny!

Okay, get the whole scoop on this one from a quite elderly Kenneth Anger...

How was a hyperreality created here?