EE/UU: Exquisite expression/unsettling utterance

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Galvan
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Making Art

Through the act of making art and writing about it, the essay documents and expands on how Latinx is given meaning. The work draws upon personal experience and visual art research to consider observational strategies for sharing and shaping the perception of Latinx.

“Where Your Voice Burns Like Fire”: Visual art and radio broadcasting as semiotic practices of intergenerational political socialization among the Purépecha of Cherán, México

2021 ◽  
pp. 204361062110086
Author(s):  
Anthony Gerard Wright ◽  
Jurhamuti José Velázquez Morales
Keyword(s):  
Organized Crime ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Political Socialization ◽  
Intergenerational Relationships ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Youth Participation ◽  
Significant Challenge ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Indigenous Social Movements

This article analyzes visual art and radio broadcasting as semiotic practices that serve as crucial sites of child and youth participation in Indigenous social movements. Looking specifically at a movement against organized crime, political corruption, and environmental exploitation that emerged in 2011 among the Purépechan people of Cherán, Michoacán, México, we show how young people’s creative practices present a significant challenge to hegemonic models of adult- directed political socialization and participation, although they do not result in a total flattening of age-based hierarchies. Drawing on multimodal ethnographic fieldwork and personal experience in the movement, we show how the creative practices of youth activists facilitate the production and circulation of visual and sonic content that conveys historical and onto-epistemological frameworks which guide the movement. We also show how the circulation of this content generates the potential to influence those who come into contact with it, including both Purépechans and non-Purépechans who reside well beyond the borders of Cherán. In doing so, we demonstrate that multimodal ethnographic attention to the ways in which young people’s diverse semiotic repertoires are deployed in contexts of political activism can provide valuable insights about political socialization, intergenerational relationships, and the entanglement of a variety of politically charged semiotic forms in everyday life.

The Spectacle of Seismicity: Making Art from Earthquakes

Leonardo ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-139
Author(s):  
Ella Mudie
Keyword(s):  
Visual Art ◽  
Earthquake Activity ◽  
Psychological Responses ◽  
Public Displays ◽  
Cultural Crisis ◽  
Construct Meaning ◽  
Making Art

Representations of earthquakes in visual art have the potential to function as spectacles (defined as striking or dramatic public displays); this in turn provokes consideration of how viewers construct meaning from such representations. The author examines the work of a number of artists arguably concerned with going beyond spectacular representations in their portrayals of earthquake activity. Particular focus is placed upon performative techniques meant not only to engage audiences with the properties of seismic phenomena but also to stimulate reflection on the complex psychological responses they may trigger, as well as their analogous relationships to conditions of environmental and cultural crisis.

scholarly journals PSIKOLOGIS DALAM SENI: KATARSIS SEBAGAI REPRESENTASI DALAM KARYA SENI RUPA

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Ernawati Ernawati
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
The Arts

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mengungkap peran aspek psikologis katarsis dalam karya seni rupa. Prinsip seputar psikis dapat dipraktikan dalam karya seni, salahsatunya gerakan seni rupa kontemporer. Kajian karya berdasarkan aspek psikologis, salah satunya katarsis termasuk hal yang krusial untuk dilakukan.  Metode pada penelitian ini menerapkan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan multidisiplin (psikologi seni dan semiotika). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Perspektif lebih obyektif karena seniman sebagai kreator berbanding lurus dengan karya yang disajikan. Elemen visual yang dipilih dan disajikan seniman tersusun berdasarkan kemampuan kreatif menyusun citra visual yang berangkat dari aspek pengalaman yaitu berupa rasa khawatir/kegelisahan atau ketakutan yang mendasarinya dalam berkarya. Karya seni yang terwujud representasi dari dunia psikis seniman sebagai kreator. Pendekatan psikologis dalam berkarya dengan dipadukan kemampuan akademik dari aspek keilmuan seni rupa setidaknya mampu memperkaya keilmuan dalam keberagaman seni rupa. Dalam konstelasi seni rupa Indonesia kontemporer, kajian dari perspektif psikologis, khususnya katarsis pada karya seni berelasi dengan psikobiografi atau pengalaman pribadi seniman. This research aims to explore the role of catharsis psychological aspects in visual artwork. The principle surrounding the psychic can be practiced in the artwork. One of them is contemporary art movements. A study of works based on psychological aspects, one of which is cathartic includes the crucial thing to do.  The method in this study implements a qualitative method with a multidisciplinary approach (the psychology of Art and semiotics). The results show that perspective is more objective because the artist as a creator is directly proportional to the work showed.The selected and presented visual elements by the artist are arranged based on a creative ability to compose a visual image that influences the experience aspect of worry/anxiety or fear underlying it in the works. The artwork embodied is a representation of the part of a psychic artist as creator. The psychological approach of working combined with the academic ability of the science aspect of the arts is at least, capable of enriching science in the diversity of visual arts. In the constellation of contemporary Indonesian visual art, a study from a psychological perspective, especially catharsis on artwork relates to a psychobiography or an artist's personal experience.

Art and micro-cosmos: kinetic art and mid-20th-century cosmology

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 447-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Rycroft
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Kinetic Art ◽  
Figurative Art ◽  
Illusory Movement ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Universe

Recent work by cultural geographers on visual art has emphasized performative and participatory aspects focusing upon the embodied and multi-sensory experience of encountering and being part of a work of art. Research on non-figurative art has much to offer in elucidating the relationships and distinctions between representation, non-representation and abstraction. Non figurative artists were representing or enacting a new kind of materiality, one that was putative, in process and ever changing. That materiality was based upon the adoption of a mid-20th-century cosmology and inspired by recent advances in the understanding of matter and the universe. Kinetic art, which is characterized by a set of abstract aesthetics that represent or reproduce real or illusory movement, was, especially in the post-war period, inspired by this new cosmology. Mid-century kinetic artists created non-figurative abstract models of the latest understandings to bring their associated energies, forces and motions to the senses of the viewer-participant. The models that kinetic artists produced in a variety of media were designed to be experienced in an embodied manner rather than simply viewed. These and other models of a mid-century cosmology signify a period in which the practices of representation were shifting significantly and consequently demand our attention.

scholarly journals The Benefits of a Convergence between Art and Engineering

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Giovanni Innella ◽  
Paul Anthony Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Environmental Sciences ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Art Research

As design practitioners researchers and educators, we constantly find ourselves shuffled between humanities and sciences. In fact, the design departments in the universities around the globe are located within the faculties of engineering, architecture, visual art, liberal are or environmental sciences, thus becoming a meeting point for academics and professionals coming from both the humanities and sciences. The synergy resulting from the varieties of backgrounds and expertise creates a fertile ground for explorations on both a conceptual and a technical level. By briefly compiling and analysing a review of literature and creative works spanning from the renaissance to contemporary art, this paper reflects on the potential benefits of combining engineering and art research. The authors of this paper look at the increasingly delicate role that technicians, engineers and computer programmers play in developing technologies that impact our social, emotional and intimal lives, and advocate for art as a context and tool to help those professional developing their sensitivity and critical sense, besides their skills. In doing so, the paper makes a contribution to the STEM vs. STEAM conundrum, encouraging an education that merges arts and humanities disciplines with scientific and technical subjects. Doi: 10.28991/HIJ-2021-02-01-04 Full Text: PDF

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