Yvonne Spielmann seminar6 December 2007
Japan research
Aesthetics - hybridity - Cultural studies - modernity, colonial, Stuart Hall - closing down of debate - Romly back to syncrhotism
Common ground between themes?
Blind spots: Media people specify different types of convergence tend to say that analogue media reality – each photo camera, chemical, electronic – say hat none of them apply anymore, since area of simulation; they call this digitl and hybrid, since no physical reality; if combine, then hybrid
This is often neutral to outside world, but not debate of different cultural influences. Now q over global.
In CS, always vague specification of media
Lack of understanding of the media’s specificities Including evol of genre, technology, etc
So this is a bigger blind spot, though political understanding of hybridity politics - nationalism, etc
eastern western compositions
how specific thought processes have been reworked
Fiona Tan - Indonesian artist, raised in Netherlands, photographer - Represn of modernity within media in 20th century - Also with performativity of medium - Transgress - Comment on content, but also specific apparatus of the medium - Creating dynamics and possibilities of change - Film and video used to rework other
Art Historians - auber XXXX - ar - human size scale installation
interested in exemplary
plurality, postmodern,
image in a dynamic
hybrid, because in between
projected film of photograph of people standing still
used to classify people and society
she brings an external
- sarah ahmed – familiarity
western socialization of 20th century media
then, she travels to japan and does video installation in temple in souther Kyoto
‘Saint Sebastian’ - arrow being shot. - Target not the focus - Refers to Christian mythology, but there would show tortured body - She takes position of san Sebastian, shooting back from camera, victim position captured by film maker, also a gender change
Indiv not s indiv, but as exemplary of particular profession
Tang
Sanjusangendo Temple in Kyoto, each year on Kyoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto – famous Japanese photographer - still photography, horizon lines - Sea of Buddha - Appears as same image, but they are each different – taken from 1000 buddhas - Impression of single image is product of modernity. - Require knowl of the 1000 buddhas to know that it is not simply duplication
Is this specifically Japanese approach in photography
Sugimoto – show in Rapongi
Shoichi Auk - Freshfruits
Katrin Paul
Tokio Hotel
Masaki Fujihata - Making of Landing Home - Gps, angle of camera.