Handling History, ‘-isms’, and Texts...
Theo Humphries Constellation
2012
Tuesday, 23 October 12
Handling History, ‘-isms’, and Texts...
Theo Humphries Constellation
2012
Tuesday, 23 October 12
1. Handling History
2. Handling ‘-isms’
3. Handling texts(close reading)
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Circa 1929 Wall of Death, Revere Beach, MA, USA
HandlingHistory...
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A problem with history as a chronology of
‘facts’
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Another problem with history...
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Another problem with history...
...there are a lot of things in it.
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Dawson & Lockyer, 2009Network Complexity DiagramTuesday, 23 October 12
Dawson & Lockyer, 2009Network Complexity DiagramTuesday, 23 October 12
Dawson & Lockyer, 2009Network Complexity DiagramTuesday, 23 October 12
MAMIYAM645, 2009‘Trees in Central Park’Tuesday, 23 October 12
Dylan Winter, n.d.Starlings flocking over Otmore
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rspb.org.uk, 2010Flocking Starlings
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ALL HISTORIES ARE CONSTRUCTED
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ALL HISTORIES ARE CONSTRUCTED
Never say “The history of...”
Always say: “A history of...”
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symbolism, romanticism, positivism, holism, fauvism, primitivism, Fordism, pessimism, liberal optimism, avant-guardism, neoclassicism, radicalism, utopianism, surrealism, cubism, Fluxus, abstract expressionism, abstract illusionism, minimalism, dadaism, theism, constructivism, impressionism, futurism, pragmatism, functionalism, materialism, spiritualism, existentialism, radicalism, primitivism, surrealism, elitism, narcissi formalism, consumerism, anti-consumerism, capitalism, postmodernism, metamodernism
Handling‘-isms’
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symbolism, romanticism, positivism, holism, fauvism, primitivism, Fordism, pessimism, liberal optimism, avant-guardism, neoclassicism, radicalism, utopianism, surrealism, cubism, Fluxus, abstract expressionism, abstract illusionism, minimalism, dadaism, theism, constructivism, impressionism, futurism, pragmatism, functionalism, materialism, spiritualism, existentialism, radicalism, primitivism, surrealism, elitism, narcissi formalism, consumerism, anti-consumerism, capitalism, postmodernism, metamodernism
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‘Campbells Soup Can’Andy Warhol, 1964
‘Hopeless’Roy Lichtenstein, 1963
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‘Théière Sécante’Atelier Polyhedre, 2011
‘Compositie 10 in Zwart Wit - Pier and Ocean’
Piet Mondrian, 1915
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Mond.
Minimalism Modernism
Abstractionism
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Mond.Mond.
Minimalism Modernism
Abstractionism
Purism
Neo-Plasticism
Cubism
De StijlConstructivism
ReductionismIdealism
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examples of the differences
Jean-Francoise Lyotard Ray Kurweil
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Polish Military Experiment, 1920Acoustic booster (pre-RADAR)
Any questions...?
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HandlingText
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Close reading
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Kusterle, 2002‘Abbandono sul fondo’Tuesday, 23 October 12
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Prof. André StittThe Little Summer of St. Michael2011Oil on linen120 x 120 cm
My recent work reflects a concern with the visual codification of post-colonial landscapes and inhabited futures. Paint is utilised as a synthetic transmitter of experience that reflects the historical uncertainty of place and proposes contemporary genre painting as a transformative medium with redemptive potential. These paintings aspire to a condition of association and evocation rather than representation. As such, they occupy a liminal space that might be defined as ambiguous abstraction. This often reveals itself as a searching out of small, elusive moments and unconscious dilemmas that may implicate us in a larger communal, collective or cosmological narrative.
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Pair up...
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1. Circle any words, and/or small groups of words, that you don't fully understand. Talk about them, and look them up on your phones/laptops/tablets/etc.*
*please make notes on the paper.
Tuesday, 23 October 12
1. Circle any words, and/or small groups of words, that you don't fully understand. Talk about them, and look them up on your phones/laptops/tablets/etc.*
2. Circle the keywords in a different colour or form of line.
*please make notes on the paper.
Tuesday, 23 October 12
1. Circle any words, and/or small groups of words, that you don't fully understand. Talk about them, and look them up on your phones/laptops/tablets/etc.*
2. Circle the keywords in a different colour or form of line.
3. Pick a sentence and try to define its meaning in your own words*. This is paraphrasing.
*please make notes on the paper.
Tuesday, 23 October 12
1. Circle any words, and/or small groups of words, that you don't fully understand. Talk about them, and look them up on your phones/laptops/tablets/etc.*
2. Circle the keywords in a different colour or form of line.
3. Pick a sentence and try to define its meaning in your own words*. This is paraphrasing.
4. Summarise the whole text into a single sentence. (remember to utilise your circled keywords). This is a summary.
Elect one of your pair to read out your summary sentence at the end of the session.
*please make notes on the paper.
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Tuesday, 23 October 12