Lecture 2

Question 1

New media definition (3) elements ?

Answer 1

It depends on the social group defining it
1- remediation tool that MASS DISTRIBUTION of broadcast/content
2- REPURPOSEMENT of industrial standard tech. for cultural purposes
3- art historical MOVEMENT - tech/ forms/ themes/content / conceptual

Question 2

what are Plato theories?

Answer 2

1. art is representation (worlds of illusion)

2. artist is a prophet - better truth than ordinary

Question 3

Renaissance main struggle between what 2 forces?

Answer 3

Science and religion

Question 4

What does Descartes say?

Answer 4

I think therefore I am, and the mind and body can be separate

Question 5

When was and what was the Age of Enlightenment ?

Answer 5

1620-1780
Reason, analysis, individualism&raquo_space;> traditional constitutions like Catholic Church and redefined the profession of an artist

Question 6

What were the qualities of the 18th century fine arts?

Answer 6

Artisan is a skilled maker/practitioner

Greek term “skill” techne

Question 7

In the 18th century what did visual arts combine ? (2 elements)

Answer 7

Aesthetic / intellectual

beauty / meaning

Question 8

19th century defining art technology?

Answer 8

Photography

Question 9

20th century art values ?

Answer 9

Designer and concept are important

and science and religion are separated

Question 10

What elements of visual culture (6)?

Answer 10

1- representation 2. disembodied experience 3. intellectual 4. ideals(beauty /religious /social) 5. documents the past 6.memory

Question 11

What are histories of experience/ embodied culture?

Answer 11

Prehistoric = personal sensory ritual.
Dance / music/ spiritual / ritual
Isolation : in wilderness
Animism = internalized personal E.E like scars or tattoos
Shamanism = drug

Question 12

Liturgical drama of 10-14th century was with what collpase and was limitedd to what?

Answer 12

Roman empire collapsed and theatre was limited to court and churhc

Question 13

Star system / celebrities began in what era

Answer 13

18th century

Question 14

What was 19th century and 20th century theatre based on?

Answer 14

1. romanticism, melodrama, realism, symbolism

2. representation/ conceptual and star system