#visualrhet2015

I found this image this week and thought it was relevant to everything we have been reading related to Ferguson. The author of the image is very clever in comparing an angry bear to the way police men treat black people. 

At first I believed this image was something that the author had found and worked over, but after a quick Google image search, I was not able to find an original, so I think the author made the entire thing.

At lunch today, I was hearing some friends complaining about how one of their professors insists on talking about memes, live tweets, and other digital interfaces on their class. They thought it was pretty annoying, and they had their reasons: they had gotten into that class because they were expecting to learn something, but the syllabus was changed this semester so now the class is pretty different than what they had expected. This is a valid reason but whereas they were complaining about it, I was trying to defend their professor.

I'm pretty this is not only my opinion (and I think most people in this class have a similar opinion), but I think it is great that digital interfaces are being taken into consideration in an academic setting. After all, it is something worth studying. Everything related to internet culture, is by the nature of the internet, extremely universal, and hence, affects human society a lot. This is specially true when talking about younger generations and how youth culture is so closely knit with internet culture nowadays.

· Direction: Iñigo Orduña and Claudio Molinari · Animation and postproduction: Iñigo Orduña · Translation: Ivan Bergquist · Narration: Sally Blips

I watched this art piece by Lorna Mills in my Video Art class the day after we had to watch Ways of Seeing for this class. Because of this connection, I thought it would be the perfect thing to share for my weekly blog post. The entire film uses the audio of the John Berger's first Ways of Seeing episode. The visuals were made by different artists who were commissioned to create a minute each. One of the requirements for the artists was to include subtitles of the audio in their video, hence why the text is present all throughout the video.

It might have been that I watched this piece right after watching the original film, when I still remembered all of the images used in that one, but I thought every choice taken by the artists made a lot of sense. It provided a new interpretation on Berger's statements in 1970. Also, because this was created almost 45 years after the original film, it shows how Berger's words apply or cease to apply in our current setting. 

I could argue that this video is not only a new interpretation on Berger's work, but in a way it is a portrait of different things. For example, this is a portrait of what art has become in the past few years and how digital media has affected the perception of art. Also, it represents human society during the digital age and how we value certain things over others nowadays. This is very clearly shown in the part where Berger is talking about relics and idols, but there are images of Google being shown to the viewer.