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Knowing how different the attitudes, standards, and expectations were for the boys and girls placed me in a dire disposition because how can society act like this to them ever since the start of everything and actually perpetrate such until now. IT'S 2018. IT'S TIME TO BREAK GENDER NORMS. AND ACTUALLY, IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN BROKEN A LONG TIME AGO. 

Moving on, I find it quite nice that there is actually a convergence in some of the motives for sex between men and women. It just goes to show that gender is indeed fluid and that in the future, when things people have become more open about what seemed to be a taboo topic before, then maybe, we can see more confluence of what is thought to be two entirely separate people.

With this topic at hand, I learned about the differences between gender identity, gender expression, biological sex, and being sexually and romantically attracted. I also knew about how there is really no 100% male nor 100% female. Gender is fluid — part of a proof in that would be why it was more fitting or apt to create ranges than points in the Genderbread person activity, although points could work too. Besides the aforementioned, I also took note of people’s motives for sex, the libido and its physiological foundation or sourcepoint, some sex myths, the sex drive and sexual double standards. 

I think that gaining more in-depth knowledge about romance, intimacy and commitment, as well as negotiations on the sexual encounter is not only relevant but also beneficial to me and my PSY-I classmates since I, along with them, are at this stage where we begin to transition from being an adolescent to a young adult. Moreover, according to Erik Erikson’s theory of Psychosocial Development, the young adult stage is where we are most likely to seek intimacy and love. Thus, it is better to become critical at our current dispositions and it is thanks to this topic that I have become evaluative of myself and my surroundings. 

As a whole, I can apply these learnings when dealing with my relationships (not just romantic relationships coz I never had and I never plan to aHA) with girls and boys alike. I should treat everyone with respect, no matter what or who they are, and learn of their boundaries and give them my utmost regard.

AAAAND THAT’S ALL. 

The video, ‘Grosse Fatigue’ directed by Camille Henrot, it definitely is an amazing video. The sound of background and all images in the video are really good. In the video, Camille tells the story of the creation of the universe by covering wide-ranging knowledge, such as anthropology, ethnography, and the history of technology. In the video, the most impressive thing for me is that the whole video is covered by dense images and sounds, and these images ceaselessly pop up, collide or implode across a computer screen with the background music. I feel that the visual effect is very successful, I will consider to use this technique in my future project. The video gives me a strange feeling, which is real and unreal, separation and coordination,scientific and religious, and it is hard to conclude what is the main line that they want to talk about, because it gives me so many information, but I really enjoy this feeling that it brings to me, because the whole video like the processing of development of universe.

Not All Errors Are Created Equal

Dada (Dadaism) 

Although Dada only lasted for a few years its impact was considerable. The Dadaists introduced and explored techniques and concepts that we take for granted in art today: automatism, chance, photomontage, assemblage, and the idea that an artwork could be a temporary installation. They also expanded the boundaries and context of what was considered acceptable as art, which in turn inspired future developments such as Action Painting, Pop Art, Happenings, Installations, Conceptual Art and its various post-modern splinter groups.

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude. ― Marcel Duchamp

ArtyFactory http://www.artyfactory.com/art_appreciation/art_movements/dadaism.htm

Fluxus and Zen

Zen is a Japanese Buddhist philosophy that focuses on meditation and the importance of the present moment. No single moment is to be more important than another in life. Zen had a powerful impact on John Cage who thought that art should be concerned with equivalency of values instead of elevating artistic experiences from everyday experiences - "in this way art becomes important as a means to make one aware of one's actual environment." This comes directly from Buddhist teachings on the importance of being aware of every moment and present in every moment in life.

ArtStory http://www.theartstory.org/movement-fluxus.htm

Minimalism 

Minimal Art is a school of abstract painting and sculpture where any kind of personal expression is kept to a minimum, in order to give the work a completely literal presence. The resulting work is characterized by extreme simplicity of form and a deliberate lack of expressive content. The central principle is that not the artist’s expression, but the medium and materials of the work are its reality. In other words: a work of art should not refer to anything other than itself. As minimalist painter Frank Stella once said: “What you see is what you see”.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. ― Albert Einstein

http://understandingminimalism.com/introduction-to-minimal-art/

Quotes

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work. When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art. ― Sol LeWitt

Language is the most formless means of expression. Its capacity to describe concepts without physical or visual references carries us into an advanced state of abstraction. ― Ian Wilson

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces. ― Eckhart Tolle

More Sources

Tate http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/f/fluxus

ArtMovements http://www.artmovements.co.uk/fluxus.htm

WideWalls http://www.widewalls.ch/conceptual-art-movement-and-conceptual-art-examples/

This week’s assigned podcast was an episode of Design Matters featuring Stefan Sagmeister. This particular episode was admittedly difficult to absorb. This was a “vintage” edition of Design Matters from the dark days of 2013. Debbie sounded like she was recording the interview with a Nokia brick phone, and it seemed as though she had yet to develop her signature edge as an internet radio host. She conducted the interview like a middle-schooler meeting Justin Bieber, at one point asking Stephan breathlessly if he had felt a change now that he was like, totally famous.

Sagmeister shrugged audibly and told her that no, not really, and that he was really only famous to designers.

I knew that his name sounded familiar, and after a quick Google search I found out why: we literally looked at his firm’s work in class just weeks ago, and I looked through his “Things I Have Learned” piece myself. Beyond Sagmeister & Walsh’s strange live-feed homepage, I also found that Sagmeister himself is a king of experimental typography. Light, fabric, splatters of paint, hair, and even people are all up for grabs in his works, and his canvases range from thin air to human flesh. One piece I remember Steve Skaggs showing us back in Intro was a talk poster of Sagmeister’s where he had an assistant help him carve the details of the event into his own skin.

It makes my own experimental type feel really pedestrian by comparison.