Tuesday, 10 February 2015

Postmodernism Lecture Notes 09.02.15

- How we think of humanity
- Reality and 'the real'
- How we think of culture
- Perfect world/human
- Normality?
- Placing things in a box, categorising
- Modernism and Postmodernism
- Identity
- Change, difference

- Do we live in a postmodern world? Life 10 years ago will seem shocking to us because today is so different
- There has been a major social change in the last 10-20 years

- Subcultures
- The idea of one uniform society has raised problems. Now culture is seen as little cults joined into one culture rather than a universal whole group
- We used to invade other territories to unify our beliefs and religions as we thought we were doing a justice
- New world order

- Postmodern, difference in people. No single set of rules for one unified society
- Indifferences
- You are different with one group of people to another
- Fluidity and flexibility
- People are expected to move with developing culture
- Logic of fashion

Modernism was driven by the thought of progress to one unified society. Technology and fashion unifies us

- Modernist society aimed to improve culture. To improve what humans were
- However this brought up problems with rights to individuality and diversity
- Function above all
- Universalism, global village
- Modernist progress towards new technology
- Constructed future through technology

- What is the natural way of being? Unified or diverse?

Bauhaus & Black Mountain College

- Experimentation meets human nature

*My ideal world based on modernism and postmodernism

- Developing principles to unified work
- Playing with experimentation
- How colour and shapes effect and play with our mind
- Discovering human nature in order to develop principles to use in artwork
- Creative Laboratory
- What effects us as humans
- Production od manuals, to create formalism. The science of aesthetics
- The Art machine

- Optimal human nature and way of being that we all fit into no matter of individuality
- Primal human nature

- Is there an outcome to this experimentation
- Will a formula of work and production be created
- Social manipulation
- Logical principles, getting everything right

- Black Mountain College - How complex and noisy the world is
- Bauhaus - Streamlining the noise and creating a 'perfect' world

- We are never finished or complete. Which begs the question, what is coming next?
- Are we being or going to be?

- Utility and form vs complexity
- Bauhaus vs BMC

- Experimentation and experience

The perfect Human - Film

*What is my perfect human