The 'Real Lesson of an Education in Visual Culture'

2001 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Kerr
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsiao-Cheng (Sandrine) Han

The purpose of this research is to improve the understanding of how users of online virtual worlds learn and/or relearn ‘culture' through the use of visual components. The goal of this research is to understand if culturally and historically authentic imagery is necessary for users to understand the virtual world; how virtual world residents form and reform their virtual culture; and whether the visual culture in the virtual world is imported from the real world, colonized by any dominate culture, or assimilated into a new culture. The main research question is: Is the authenticity of cultural imagery important to virtual world residents? This research investigates whether visual culture awareness can help students develop a better understanding of visual culture in the real world, and whether this awareness can help educators construct better curricula and pedagogy for visual culture education.


Author(s):  
José Colmeiro

Galician audio/visual culture has experienced an unprecedented period of growth following the process of political and cultural devolution in post-Franco Spain. This creative explosion has occurred in a productive dialogue with global currents and with considerable projection beyond the geopolitical boundaries of the nation and the state, but these seismic changes are only beginning to be the subject of attention of cultural and media studies. This book examines contemporary audio/visual production in Galicia as privileged channels through which modern Galician cultural identities have been imagined, constructed and consumed, both at home and abroad. The cultural redefinition of Galicia in the global age is explored through different media texts (popular music, cinema, video) which cross established boundaries and deterritorialise new border zones where tradition and modernity dissolve, generating creative tensions between the urban and the rural, the local and the global, the real and the imagined. The book aims for the deperipheralization and deterritorialization of the Galician cultural map by overcoming long-established hegemonic exclusions, whether based on language, discipline, genre, gender, origins, or territorial demarcation, while aiming to disjoint the center/periphery dichotomy that has relegated Galician culture to the margins. In essence, it is an attempt to resituate Galicia and Galician studies out of the periphery and open them to the world.


2018 ◽  
Vol 168 (7) ◽  
pp. SS1
Author(s):  
Alison Bell
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  

Author(s):  
Brian Leiter

Instrumentalists think the history of philosophy is as relevant to philosophy as the history of physics is to physics: if past philosophical or physical theories are true, or help us get to the truth, then we should know about them, otherwise not. Sceptical instrumentalists (such as Carnap and Quine) think history fails on these counts, optimistic instrumentalists think it does not. By contrast ‘anti-philosophical’ instrumentalists—such as Marx, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein—are not simply sceptics, because the sceptics still believe there is something for philosophy to do, some knowledge it can produce, some truths it can reveal. The anti-philosophical philosophers think we should give up philosophy as traditionally conceived: the real lesson from the history of philosophy in the Socratic canon is that philosophy is ‘garbage’, or, as Nietzsche thought, disguised moral advocacy. For Nietzsche, this is the real lesson of the history of philosophy.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Soeprapto Soedjono

ABSTRAKSebagaimana yang terjadi pada ranah seni sastra dan seni rupa, pengaruh surealisme sebagai moda artistik penciptaan karya seni, ternyata juga memengaruhi perkembangan bentuk dan genre baru di ranah fotografi. Sebagai bagian dari upaya-upaya penciptaan karya kreatif fotografis, beberapa fotografer menggunakan berbagai aspek dalam domain fotografi untuk juga bisa menampilkan karya-karya yang bernuansa surréal dan terkesan bersifat surealistis dengan berbagai teknik-teknik penciptaan visualnya. Prinsip-prinsip surealisme yang berkaitan dengan upaya memadukan elemen visual yang nyata dan yang bersifat tidak nyata (virtual, dream-like, fantasy) dalam karya-karya fotografi merekamenghasilkan sebuah fenomena ‘keraguan’ dalam menyikapi karya fotografinya. Hal ini terjadi karena yang selama ini karya fotografi diyakini sebagai medium penghasil karya seni visual yang nyata/realis dan merupakan satu bentuk representasi realitas yang faktual telah menjadi ‘ragu’ terhadap hasil karya fotografi surrealistic yang diciptakannya.Visualisasi bentuk-bentuk yang riil tertampilkan bertentangan dengan kelayakan konvensi logika visual alamiah realisme media fotografi yang ada. Namun, secara artistik tentunya kehadiran fotografi surealistik ini bisa dijadikan sebagai salah satu upaya alternatif penampilan visual karya seni fotografi yang ekspresif. Dalam arti bahwa ranah fotografi juga memiliki moda ungkapan ekspresif estetik yang juga memiliki kemungkinan untuk mengekplorasi aspek-aspek dunia mimpi bawah sadar, fantasi, yang bernuansa simbolisme visual dalam kancah pengembangan budaya visual yang bernilai ‘nyata - tidak nyata’. Surrealism Photography: Aesthetic Visualization of the Imagination Fantasy Imagery. As appeared in the sphere of literary and fine arts, the influence of surrealism as an artistic mode for the creation of works of art, apparently it also influences the development of new forms and genres in the sphere of photography. As part of the efforts to create photographic creative works, some photographers use various aspects in the photographic domain to also be able to present works which are surreal in nature and seem surrealistic in their various visual creation techniques. The principles of surrealism are associated with the attempts to combine visual elements which are real and not real (virtual, dream-like, fantasy) in photography works produce a phenomenon of ‘doubt’ in addressing the photographic work. This happens because all this time photography is believed to be a medium that produces visual art works that are real or realistic and is a form of factual reality representation which has become ‘doubtful’ of the surrealistic photographic works that it creates. The visualization of the real forms that appear is contrary to the feasibility of the natural visual logic conventions of the realism of the existing photographic media. However, artistically, the presence of this surrealistic photography can be used as an alternative attempt for the visual appearance of expressive photographic artworks. In the sphere of photography, it makes sense that it has an aesthetic expressive mode of expression which also has a possibility to explore the aspects of the subconscious self, fantasy, having the nuance of visual symbolical in the domain of developing visual culture which could be valued as ‘real-not real’.


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