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Beau Lotto work- Research

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf5otGNbkuc

Work Of Gillian Wearing- Research

'There has been a lot written about the death of privacy in our hyper-connected world, but one certain casualty of our mediated lives is the sanctity of public space, the generational erosion of the idea that what you might want to tell your best mate you wouldn't necessarily expect strangers to want to hear.'http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/04/gillian-wearing-whitechapel-gallery-feature 

'Wearing's first landmark work was quite a quaint exercise in exposing interior lives to the world. She approached people at random on London streets and asked them to write down on a piece of card what was on their minds. She then photographed them holding the signs. The images were surprisingly revealing, intentionally and not – the City worker with thinning hair who scrawled "I'm desperate", the black policeman who wrote "Help". They not only gave her subjects a voice, they gave viewers an instant snapshot of worlds of interiors. Some of Signs that say what you want them to say and not signs that say what someone else wants you to say will be included in Wearing's compelling retrospective, which opens at the Whitechapel Gallery at the end of the month. I wonder how she sees them herself, now?'http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/04/gillian-wearing-whitechapel-gallery-feature 

In the quest to find new ways to learn about people she learn t more of herself

Find out more from 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/mar/04/gillian-wearing-whitechapel-gallery-feature 

Gillian Wearing -"Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say"
 

Self Made Trailor

Published on Apr 13, 2012 by whitechapelgallery 

available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj3_CaJOgCk

Wings of Desire Subway Scene- Reference

Uploaded by kevinahoward on Jun 18, 2008

Shared from - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2izlo8UX_PA&feature=related

Chronogram of space time analysis film

Inside the Human Brain

What happens inside our brains what connections are we making? are these dependent on who you are, where you come from and what you know? or is it a biological process? Probably both..

 

“Science DOES ‘touch the real’ its knowledge IS ‘Knowledge in the real’ – the deadlock resides  simply in the fact that scientific knowledge cannot serve as the SYMBOLIC ‘big other’.

Where we are dealing with rules/laws which function, they cannot be ever translated into our experience of representable reality

Sciences cannot provide the answer 

http://lacan.com/zizek-matrix.htm

Space time analysis 2

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The film looks at the inside and the outside, voiceover of peoples thoughts and consciousness jumping from one to the other together with my own over in places… taking the camera inside the human brain how its working at a particular time the connections it may be making, with the coordinates factual,  zooming into the body and going back out again

 We share the external space but have an internal experience

How do we think we perceive space? How do we create our cognitive map of our surroundings and environment? Is this connected to our social staus, gender, age, race, culture & background, knowlage base and educational background were we come from? what of the biological human process that occurs within the brain? Is it therefore different for everyone or is there a control of the same?

Process; 

Back on the  DLR retaking footage and interviewing people on the train recording their thoughts namely asking what are you thinking rite now.. trying to think about what was going through their minds trying to understand what they were aware of in that moment

From my interviewing I found that people who I saw to be of english origin  had comments such as

Im not thinking of anything

Im reading my twitter

What hospital have I got to get to

My dog iv left him at home

I don’t have a phone

Im thinking of where I am going.. shopping canary wharf

Followed by a questioning of what I was doing followed by their ideas of architecture in London.. a very practical level

Others from elsewhere on the train  were saying

I don’t speak English very well

Im hungry

Im thinking of going away.. going to Barcelona

Should I move my bag if someone comes?

A larger sample would obviously need to be taken to make such assumptions but could this show connections between our society and our knowledge base, background and experience

Am interested in the idea of our perception being biological & instinctive something we learn and develop instinctively over time ,through practice knowledge base and experience. Our awareness of self  & being able to be self aware based on what we tell ourselves how we train ourselves so we have connections inbuilt within us.

Being in an external reality, the factual but internally experiencing the moment.

I am inside, I am outside…

The culture and society in which we live inevitably influences the way in which we experience things, our brains build connections by what we see what we learn and what we lead ourselves to believe or what we are lead to believe. It is factual biological seemingly connecting to the global facts of location, time, actuality.

Have been looking at how the brain works, the connections it forms when it becomes better at it - Like how you learn to walk , you fall down first time but biologically you train your brain to learn it then becomes an unconscious action you do it instinctively

 The brain - consciousness where does it come from??

The readings have added to my thinking through the following interests I have picked up

Frederic Jamesons ideas on cognitive mapping and how we must understand the global complexity for you to understand it on a local level

The psychic processes which engage production and reception

The intersection of the personal and the social

Articulation of the local and the global

Instinctive or unconscious forms of genius

Kevin Lynch image of the city-  the construction and reconstruction of an articulated ensemble which can be retained in memory and which the individual subject can map and remap along the moments

Cognitive mapping as coordination of existential data the empirical position of the subject abstract conceptions of the geographic totality.

Van Goughs pheasant shoes-sight the visual the eye, a semi autonomous space in its own right, Heidegers central analysis – the work emerges from the gap between the earth and world meaningless between body and nature and the meaning endowment of history and the social

Transformation of one form of materiality the earth itself and its paths and physical objects- The earth protected in the world of the pheasant woman

Feelings & emotions connected to our images what we see what we have seen

Expression separates within the subject, inside & outside, the wordless pain, the moment which the emotion is projected and externalized, desperate communication & outward dramatization of the inward feeling

Scream deconstructs is own aesthetic expression while remaining imprisons within it, cry , raw vibrations of the human throat incompatible within its medium

Daily life our psychic experience, our languages are dominated by categories of space rather than of categories of time.

Fredric Jameson (1991) Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Colin MacCabe: Preface. In: F. Jameson: The Geopolitical Aesthetic. Cinema and Space in the World System. London 1995, xivf