http://madeinbritain.zxq.net This is the link to myself, Hannah Mew and Hannah Lees’ final website. Here we attempted to capture the meaning behind everyday life within Britain by collecting the British public’s own experiences. Continue reading
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Regarding the Pain of Others
Within this seminar we discussed Susan Sontag’s text about desensitisation as a result of new media. The first point Sontag makes is about how the public attention is steered by the media; what we see is what they want us to see. This method was famously used when the feeling that something had to be … Continue reading
Intention and Artifice
The illusion of photography is the presumption that a photograph does not lie. Where photographs have often been used as a means of evidence, there is in fact more evidence that photographs do in face lie. They can be easily altered or even interpreted in a totally different way to what is actually occurring. For example … Continue reading
Hybridity and Music
Throughout this lecture we discussed the way in which ‘Asian’ music and ‘British’ have collaborated to create a hybrid, therefore developing a new genre of music. We first discussed what was Asian music and what was British and then seeing how the two had been used to make this new sound. We looked at bands such … Continue reading
Interrogating Public History
At the beginning of this lecture we were faced with the statement “We can never properly know about the past” and asked to discuss it. We were then asked if we believed whether ‘real’ history is a contradiction of itself. While discussing these points we talked about the British transatlantic slave trade. We watched the … Continue reading
Composition and Framing
Throughout this seminar we were introduced to the theme of our next project. Our new theme was photography and web based media. We were told that we would have the task of creating our own website for our final project which would continue with the ‘everyday life’ theme. During this seminar we were introduced to … Continue reading
Website Project Proposal
After looking at various websites that represent the everyday as well as human interaction and emotion we decided to create our own. We took inspiration from websites that let the American public give their personal accounts of 9/11. We did however want our website to depict events that had happened in Britain from 2000 to … Continue reading
Structures and Navigation
During one of our seminars we were given the task of depicting the network structure of certain programs. We had to draw out the structure of navigation for Facebook but before that we had to understand the key structures. A linear structure is where something has a set line of navigation, where one type of action … Continue reading
Images vs Memory
Whilst exploring the correlation between images and memory we looked at the photographs created by the Polish photographer Zbigniew Libera. Libera reenacted well known traumatic images and turned them into ‘positive’ versions. Libera explains how we are always dealing with memorised objects as opposed to the objects themselves. How does this reflect on the reliability of … Continue reading
One day project: Quitting
For our one day project we felt that the most effective piece would be one that affected the most people. We believed this could be generated by a self help ‘stop smoking’ video. We decided to combine and contrast a peaceful soundtrack of a hypnosis tape and some shock images of people smoking. The contrast … Continue reading
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