Pipilotti Rist's video art- how can we link this to science and reason?
1. Define the 17th century 'Scientific Revolution', and say how it changed European thought and world view.
The Scientific Revolution was a period when new ideas in physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, chemistry, and other sciences led to a rejection of doctrines that had prevailed starting in Ancient Greece and continuing through the Middle Ages, and laid the foundation of modern science.
The beginning of the seventeenth century is known as the “scientific evolution” for the drastic changes evidenced in the European approach to science during that period. The word “revolution” connotes a period of turmoil and social upheaval where ideas about the world change severely and a completely new era of academic thought is ushered in. This term, therefore, describes quite accurately what took place in the scientific community following the sixteenth century. During the scientific revolution, medieval scientific philosophy was abandoned in favor of the new methods proposed by Bacon, Galileo, Escartes, and Newton; the importance of experimentation to the scientific method was reaffirmed; the importance of God to science was for the most part invalidated, and the pursuit of science itself (rather than philosophy) gained validity on its own terms.
The development of scientific research, so that people with ideas and change in attitude :
1/. Scientists spirit of seeking truth from facts affect people's attitude knowledge, seek truth on the matter and not follow blindly.
2/. The increase in knowledge and science and technology development so that people began to have confidence in their own, or even that human beings can transform nature, to become master of the world.
3/. Scientific development is regarded as the basis for prosperity of the country.
1/. Scientists spirit of seeking truth from facts affect people's attitude knowledge, seek truth on the matter and not follow blindly.
2/. The increase in knowledge and science and technology development so that people began to have confidence in their own, or even that human beings can transform nature, to become master of the world.
3/. Scientific development is regarded as the basis for prosperity of the country.
2. Give examples of how we can we still see evidence of the 'Scientific Revolution' in the world today.
Science is no doubt with us today -- it surrounds our daily lives to such an extent that we now take it as a given. We expect science to be, to exist. Its effects and products touch the statesman and the soldier, the house husband and the grocer. Science has given us nylon, fluoride, latex paint as well as 747s, ever-faster microchips and PEZ. But science has also given us fluorocarbons, heroin, nuclear waste, dioxin, sarin gas and the atomic bomb.
We still believe that scientific development is the basis for prosperity of the country. Scientific revolution created scientific thought and reasoning. Today it
helps us understand and observe the world and the way it works. The way we think of the world makes the future much better.
Research Pipilotti Rist's video installations to answer the following;
3. From your research, do you think that the contemporary art world values art work
that uses new media/technology over traditional media?
New media art forms are many, but their is only one thing in common - that is, between the user and works directly through ... This just illustrates the new media art, artistic creation and technology relations. The difference is that with the traditional arts, the network works of art can make the audience more directly communication. But I don’t think that art work that uses new media/technology values over art work that uses traditional media. They just have their own ways to representation.
4. How has Pipilotti Rist used new media/technology to enhance the audience's experience of her work.
Pipilotti Rist: The Tender Room
Pipilotti Rist (b. 1962), a renowned Swiss artist who has pioneered the use of moving images in installation art, makes her solo debut in Columbus with this expansive site-specific project.
The work here, like previous immersive installations, totally envelopes viewers, as Rist uses the transformative power of color to layer and complicate the visual environment. Perhaps she is pointing out the gap between our sensual experience of color and the ways it is captured or conveyed through technical media. As you'll discover, this project transforms a large gallery and penetrates into other unexpected spaces as well.
5. Comment on how the installation, sound and scale of 'Ever is Over All' (1997) could impact on the audience's experience of the work.
Ever is Overall (1997), in which the camera follows a female walking through city streets, smashing car windows with an iron flower as she meanders. She used a very famous song and changed the tone of it to make it sound ridiculous. Through multiple video projections, unconventional viewpoints and close-ups, and large-scale installations that envelop the viewer, Rist’s work dissolves the conventional boundaries between artist and audience
6. Comment on the notion of 'reason' within the content of the video. Is the woman's behaviour reasonable or unreasonable?
The reasonable content is behind woman's unreasonable behavior in the video. Over all symbolically provides a new female order where male laws: legal, sexual and representational, have effectively been negated. Moreover, the brand of feminism that they depict not only exhibits a dissatisfaction with increasing women’s stature in the current culture, but also breaks violently with it in the search for new ways of being.
7. Comment on your 'reading' (understanding) of the work by discussion the aesthetic (look), experience and the ideologies (ideas, theories) of the work.
“Through her use of video, Rist combines the worlds of art history and mass culture to create her own visual language,” said exhibition curator Paola Morsiani. “She uses this convergence to intelligently explore the power of our mind and its connection to the body as well as the pervasiveness of our sexual experience and its link to our mortality; and she expresses her profound empathy and hope for the times in which we live.” I think the art work is a kind of media which artists can show their ideas freedom, Even though the work seems quite ridiculous.
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I like how you have thoroughly described the process into the scientific revolution and reasoning being explained by philosophers into scientists. I agree with your point in how new art mediums are still not to be valued over traditional art but yet still be appreciated for their representation.
ReplyDeleteI especially like your line "the statesman and the soldier, the house husband and the grocer." instead of merely explaining the general public you take the opportunity to use poetic and rhythmic qualities.