Visual Noise as a Painting Method. An Attempt to a Manifesto

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogdan Alexandrov ◽  
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In the era of image, painting loses its privileged position on the typological scale of visual arts. The horizontal leveled order changes essentially its coordinates to transform them into a media, equivalent to visual arts based on technology and/or time. The change does not happen without resistance. We find traces and testimonies of the desire to preserve the “self-centered” memory of the ever-prevailing painting in the attributed elements of initially considered to be her denials – photography and digital arts. We are witnessing a strange paradox – in an attempt to preserve itsclaiming perfection nature, painting recognizes the inherentin technology imperfections. The report discusses the visual noise as a possible painting method, demonstrated in the author’s artistic practice and specifically stated in several cycles of works, presented at four exhibitions.

Forum+ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Manju Sharma

Abstract In this essay, visual artist and writer Manju Sharma reflects on the use of autobiography as a methodology for storytelling in the visual arts. She focuses on the methods that she uses to explore the self and its relatedness to the world that she wishes to grasp. She also sheds light on how autobiography fits into her artistic practice as a means of finding hidden narratives and to keep the personal narrative related to the world. The essay touches upon the use of personal stories, cross-linking and note-taking to unpack everyday sensitive issues that can allow people to find their voice and to speak out.


Author(s):  
Michael Moriarty

Although the concept “baroque” is less obviously applicable to philosophy than to the visual arts and music, early modern philosophy can be shown to have connections with baroque culture. Baroque style and rhetoric are employed or denounced in philosophical controversies, to license or discredit a certain style of philosophizing. Philosophers engage with themes current in baroque literature (the mad world, the world as a stage, the quest for the self) and occasionally transform these into philosophical problems, especially of an epistemological kind (are the senses reliable? how far is our access to reality limited by our perspective?) Finally, the philosophies of Malebranche and Berkeley, with their radical challenges to so-called common sense, and their explanation of conventional understandings of the world as based on illusion, have something of the disturbing quality of baroque art and architecture.


2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-311
Author(s):  
STEPHANIE LEWTHWAITE

This short introduction provides a brief overview of the special issue, by addressing the main historiographical and theoretical concerns that unite the individual contributions and by placing the essays in comparative, inter-American and interdisciplinary perspective. What do comparative analyses tell us about patterns of cross-cultural exchange in the visual arts? More specifically, what do these analyses tell us about the role of ethnic agency and audience, and the complex relationship between artistic practice and the “mainstream,” the local and the global?


2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-114
Author(s):  
Zeina Maasri

Abstract Shedding light on the postcolonial Arabic book, this article expands the literary and art historical fields of inquiry by bringing into play the translocal design and visual economy of modern art books. It is focused on the short-lived Silsilat al-Nafa'is (Precious Books series, 1967–70), published in Beirut by Dar an-Nahar and edited by modernist poet Yusuf al-Khal (1917–87). The series engaged prominent Arab artists and foregrounded the aesthetic dimension of the printed Arabic book as a “precious” art object. Situated historically at the threshold of contemporary globalization, this publishing endeavor formed a node connecting transnational modernist art and literary circuits with book publishing and was thus paradigmatic of new forms of visuality of the Arabic book. This materiality was enabled by a network of changes in the visual arts, printing technologies, and the political economy of transnational Arabic publishing in late 1960s Beirut. Relations between these three fields are analyzed through a multifaceted lens, focusing on the book as at once a product of intellectual and artistic practice, a commodity in a capitalist economy of publishing, and a translocal artifact of visual and print culture.


Problemos ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 165-175
Author(s):  
Nerijus Milerius

Straipsnyje analizuojamas pramoginio apokalipsės kino ir kasdienybės santykis. Kinematografinius pasaulio pabaigos vaizdus ir kasdienybę įprasta traktuoti per jų tarpusavio opoziciją. Tačiau straipsnyje parodoma, jog tokia įprasta traktuotė yra smarkiai modifikuojama, jei domėn priimama kasdienybės  kontrfaktinių negatyvių galimybių sritis.Kaip argumentavo anglų teoretikas A. Giddensas, įprastoje kasdienių veiksmų, įvykių ir situacijų tėkmėje kontrfaktinės negatyvios galimybės yra suskliaustos ir užblokuotos, nes gresia kasdienio subjekto egzistencijai. Kad ir kokios, globalios ar lokalios, būtų kontrfaktinės galimybės – nuo Armagedono iki banalaus komiško eksceso, – jos neutralizuojamos kaip ardančios įprastos kasdienybės nustatytą tvarką.Apokalipsės kinas aktyvuoja suskliaustas kontrfaktines galimybes, bet kartu sukuria specifinį mechanizmą jas neutralizuoti. Taigi tai, kas kasdienybėje funkcionuoja savaime, beveik automatiškai, apokalipsės kine eksploatuojama intencionaliai. Kinematografiniame santykyje „matyti–būti matomam“žiūrovui suteikiama privilegijuota pozicija, leidžianti matyti, bet išlikti nematomam, nepaveiktam globalių destrukcijos vaizdų.Pagrindiniai žodžiai: apokalipsės kinas, kasdienybė, negatyvios kontrfaktinės galimybės.   Apocalypse Cinema as Counterfactual PhenomenonNerijus Milerius SummaryThe article deals with the relationship of apocalypse cinema genre to the everyday. Usually cinematic images of the end of the world and the routine everyday are treated through the prism of their mutual opposition. It is argued, however, that such interpretation should be essentially modified, by taking into account the realm of the negative counterfactual possibilities of the everyday.As Anthony Giddens has put it, in the habitual flow of everyday actions, events and situations, counterfactual negative possibilities are bracketed out and blocked, since negative counterfactual world threatens the self-identity of the everyday subject. All the counterfactual possibilities, irrespective to theirlocal or global character, small misunderstandings or Armageddon, are neutralized as something that destroys the pre-established everyday order. Apocalypse cinema activates bracketed counterfactual possibilities but also creates the special mechanism to neutralize them. Procedure, which functions in the ordinary everyday automatically, is created intentionally in the apocalypse cinema. In the cinematic relationship “to see – to be seen”, a spectatoris given the privileged position that allows him/her to see, but remain unseen, not affected by the images of the global destruction.Key words: apocalypse movie, the everyday, negative counterfactual possibilities.  


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 361-375
Author(s):  
Basia Nikiforova ◽  
Kęstutis Šapoka

The body is an important starting point concept throughout deconstruction, reconstruction and recontextualization of the body’s concept. This change of focus in research that stems from the results to the process of contextualization means that the researcher should engage with texts or images, as they are reflected in the process of cultural development and exchange, through which decontextualization is exhibited. This article deals with the concept of new materialism and endeavors to explain, how discourses come to matter. It examines the issue of how new materialism tackles visual art in innovative ways – through the intersections of artistic practice, art-as-research, and philosophical analysis. Such definitions as Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s “a bodily being”, Julia Kristeva’s “the abjection of the self”, Arjun Appadurai’s “the aesthetics of decontextualization” and “singularized object”, Igor Kopytoff’s “the cultural biography of things”, and Nicholas Thomas’ “entangled objects”, constitute the methodological frameworks of our research. We will analyze such approaches as Hans Belting’s concept of body as a “living medium”, Giorgio Agamben’s view on body as an object of commodification and Jacques Derrida’s “trust in painting”. An attempt to understand body reconceptualization and deconstruction through the categories of new materialism is the most important aim of this article. Karen Barad’s concept of intra-action (that implies a clear-cut subject-object distinction) is crucial to our research, which underlines that bodies have no inherent boundaries and properties and that the analyzed representations are “material-discursive phenomena”. The artworks under consideration will be confronted with a diagnosis that, according to Barad, all bodies come to matter thanks the intra-activity and its performativity. The case studies of Svajonė Stanikienė and Paulius Stanikas, Evaldas Jansas and Eglė Rakauskaitė works show how the image of the body is developed through the processes of their deconstruction and decontextualization.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydia Kastner ◽  
Nora Umbach ◽  
Aiste Jusyte ◽  
Sergio Cervera-Torres ◽  
Susana Ruiz Fernández ◽  
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An active engagement with arts in general and visual arts in particular has been hypothesized to yield beneficial effects beyond arts itself. So-called cognitive and socio-emotional “transfer” effects into other domains have been claimed. However, the empirical basis of these hopes is limited. This is partly due to a lack of experimental comparisons, theory-based designs, and objective measurements in the literature on transfer effects of arts education. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to design and experimentally investigate a theory-based visual-arts education program for adolescents aged between 12 and 19 years (Mage = 15.02, SDage = 1.75). The program was delivered in a museum context in three sessions and was expected to yield specific and objectively measurable transfer effects. To conduct a randomized field trial, three strictly parallelized and standardized art courses were developed, all of which addressed the topic of portrait drawing. The courses mainly differed regarding their instructional focus, which was either on periods of art history, on the facial expression of emotions, or on the self-perception of a person in the context of different social roles. In the first and more “traditional” course portrait drawing was used to better understand how portraits looked like in former centuries. The two other courses were designed in a way that the artistic engagement in portrait drawing was interwoven with practicing socio-emotional skills, namely empathy and emotion recognition in one course and understanding complex self-concept structures in the other. We expected positive socio-emotional transfer effects in the two “psychological” courses. We used an animated morph task to measure emotion recognition performance and a self-concept task to measure the self-complexity of participants before and after all three courses. Results indicate that an instructional focus on drawing the facial expressions of emotions yields specific improvements in emotion recognition, whereas drawing persons in different social roles yields a higher level of self-complexity in the self-concept task. In contrast, no significant effects on socio-emotional skills were found in the course focussing on art history. Therefore, our study provides causal evidence that visual-arts programs situated in an art-museum context can advance socio-emotional skills, when designed properly.


Forum+ ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 45-53
Author(s):  
Carolina Bonfim

Abstract This article seeks to share the methods and strategies of the practice-based research project Ninety movements on TECHNOGYM G6508D. The research dissects the act of running in all its dimensions by fragmenting, archiving, incorporating, and highlighting what is unique and personal in each gesture and each way of moving. Ninety Movements is a continuation of Carolina Bonfim’s recent artistic practice, which explores the relationship between the body and the archive through a visual-arts approach.


2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-229
Author(s):  
Rafaèle Genet-Verney ◽  
Ricardo Marín-Viadel ◽  
Antonio Fernández-Morillas

Abstract This article explores interactions among three topics: the city, visual arts and education, all interconnected through an urban and artistic practice of walking. This reflection is carried out in three fields of thought: education, investigation and artistic creation. On an educative level, one questions how a path through the city can be a strategy for art education learning. In the research field, thanks to analysis of artistic and urbanism methodologies applied to the city, research is carried out using walking maps as tools of art and urban planning investigation. On an artistic level, aesthetic results are desired from the investigation as a result of teaching practice designed to be a creative reflection on the city. We analysed current tendencies in art education through the use of the walking path around the city and investigation using maps. We present the three educative experiences validating the use of urban walks as pedagogic strategies and instruments of investigation.


Author(s):  
José Capela

After Alberti, the “architecture project” started to be understood as an autonomous entity mediating two separate phenomena: the conception of an architectural artifact and its eventual execution. In 1967, Sol LeWitt advocates a new framework for artistic practice, which he calls “conceptual”, saying that “when an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair”. Apparently, LeWitt merely seems to claim, within the scope of visual arts, an operative model similar to what Alberti inaugurated within the scope of architecture. However, I do not believe that this is all he does. I propose to dicuss the enunciability of architectural artifacts, comparing and contrasting the operative model of the “project” inaugurated by Alberti – which is essentially formal (the project is mainly constituted by drawings) – vis-à-vis the operative model that is characteristic to conceptual art – essentially discoursive (the idea can be verbalized). In this way, I also propose to discuss how the issue of the fidelity to the “executed work” in relation to its enunciation can be addressed within these two approches. * A partir de Alberti, o “projecto de arquitectura” terá começado a ser entendido como uma entidade autónoma e intermediária entre dois fenómenos independentes: a concepção de um artefacto arquitectónico e a sua eventual execução. Em 1967, Sol LeWitt preconiza uma nova conjuntura para a prática artística, que designa como “conceptual”, afirmando que “quando um artista usa uma forma de arte conceptual, isso significa que todo o planeamento e todas as decisões são efectuados de antemão e que a execução é uma tarefa perfunctória”. Aparentemente, LeWitt parece não fazer mais do que reivindicar, para o âmbito das artes visuais, uma conjuntura operativa semelhante àquela que Alberti terá inaugurado no âmbito da arquitectura. Contudo, julgo que não é apenas isso que faz. Proponho discutir a enunciabilidade dos artefactos arquitectónicos, confrontando o modelo operativo do “projecto” inaugurado por Alberti – essencialmente formal (o projecto é sobretudo desenho) – com o modelo operativo característico da arte conceptual – essencialmente discursivo (a ideia pode ser verbalizável). Neste sentido, proponho ainda discutir de que modo, nestas duas conjunturas, pode colocar-se o problema da fidelidade da “obra executada” ao respectivo enunciado.


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