Yvonne Spielman: Vision and Visuality in Electronic Art

To see Acconci's video of 1973- theme Song, please, follow the link: http://www.ubu.com/film/acconci_theme.html

How does the video image/interface coincide with artist's reflection?

What's the difference between Acconic's and Vasulka's methods of working with video images?

What's the difference between digital visuality of the 1960s and analog visuality of the 1980s?

What is simulation in relation to electronic image?

Crary:Techniques of the Observer

What proposes did the study of vision, and specifically, the objective analysis of subjective vision serve to in the 19th century?

In your opinion, what were some of the conditions under which the 19th century subject felt the need to invent new devices of mimetic representation, such as photography.

What are some of the differences between the stereoscope and photography?

How does the stereoscopic device mark a break from the classical observer?

What are some of the repercussions (in terms of the status of the observer as well as the relationship between the body and visiom) of the triumph of photography over the stereoscope?

Assignment: Techniques of Vision-Crary

Please, address the following questions:

What does Crary mean when he says that vision is severed from the human observer?

Who is the observer in modernity? What is the difference between observer and spectator?

“Most of the historically important functions of the human eye are being supplanted by practices that in which visual images no longer have any reference to the position of the observer in a “real” optically perceived world. ”. Do we agree with this statement? What becomes of the body under new technological conditions and regimes of observation?


What does this mean –“Observation is increasingly a question of equivalent sensations and stimuli that have no reference to a spatial location"?

Any other questions, comments?

Assignment: Techniques of Vision-Alberti

Please, address the following questions:
What is a linear perspective as it has been defined by Alberti? When did it emerge and what kind of historical and philosophical implications did it have in terms of the status of the observer?

Assignment 2: Greenaway interview

Please, follow the link and post your comments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t-9qxqdVm4

First Assignment: Vertov

Please, comment on the excerpt of Dziga Vertov's film - Man With the Movie Camera. Any thoughts, interpretations and analysis are welcome.

Follow the link below and post your comments in the comments section:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLykv_SCqj8&feature=related