Ja Rona Manifesto!

EXERCISE 2

UTOPIOS AND MANIFESTOS

•       DEFINEING MENIFESTO
According to wise Geek a manifesto is a document that sets forth the prindples and goals of an organization. It is typically designed to medley distributed to the public its serves as an official declaration. Often the document is political in nature as is the case with the communist manifesto. Manifestos are intended for a larger audience, as it plans to enlighten them about the movement.

Thou the ages of art an culture the have been manifestos created we are only going to look at 5 manifestos that were created in art

•       Dada

•       Surrealism

•       Expressionism

•       Futurism

•       Cubism

Dada
The Dadaeriters and artists were concerned shock , protest, and nonsense. They rebelled against the horrors of war, the decadence of European society, the shallowness of blind faith in technology progress, and the inadequacy of religion and conventional moral code in a continent in upheaval. Rejecting all tradition, they sought complete freedom.(P.B.Meffs,A.W.Purvis,2012,Canada,Wily& sons.)

Surrealism
Surrealism came from the Dada movement. Surrealist searched for the more real than teal world behind the real, the world of intuition dreams, and the unconscious realm. it was founded by a poet called Andre Breton. This young poets and artist rejected the rationalism and formal conventions dominating postwar creative activities in Paris. they found ways to making new truths, to reveal the language of the soul.

(P.B.Meffs,A.W.Purvis,2012,Canada,Wily& sons.)

Expressionism 

Revolution against conventional aesthetic forms and cultural norms, expressionists felt a deep sense of social crisis, especially during the years prior to World War 1. Many German expressionist rejected the authority of the military, education and social outcast, who were frequent subject’s of their work .(P.B.Meffs,A.W.Purvis,2012,Canada,Wily& sons.)

Futurism

Futurism was a revolutionary movement in which all the arts were to test their ideas forms against the new realities of scientific and industrial society.

It intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and fearlessness. Courage, audacity, and revolt will be essential elements of the poetry(P.B.Meffs,A.W.Purvis,2012,Canada,Wily& sons.)

Cubism

Cubism came with a new artistic tradition and way of seeing that challenged the 400 year Renaissance tradition of pictorial art. it was founded by Pablo Picasso. it applied elements of ancient Iberian an African tribal art and human figures. The drawing and painting of these artists demonstrate the new approach to handling space and geometric planes, and classical norms for the human figure are broken.(P.B.Meffs,A.W.Purvis,2012,Canada,Wily& sons.)

Different generations

1900-1924- G.I. Generation

1925-1595- Silent Generation

1946-1964- baby boom

1965-1979- Generation X

1980-2000- Millennia’s or Generation Y

2000/2001- Present - new silent Generation

The most resent of this generations is "generation z also known as the new silent generation. They are more enlightened in terms of the economy and how to use money. As much as they know how to use money spending it is one thing they like.

in our group we chose a music video of Amantobazana by Ricky Rick. The video like most of the youth is filed with materiel thing. Materiel things in todays world act as a  symbol of success. In this video the artistes tell the life stories on how they came up form nothing and now they making it big in the music industry. Most of the young generation of today believe that success is determined by the the amount of women and how much money you make.

The Modernly assessed utopian world consist of similar traits from the past like preserving the attempt of ethical Christian values into a religiously stabled social culture. However although indirect has a quote from a political point of view by Frederic Jameson, “what is crucial in Marx is that the perspective does not include a concept of human nature; it is not essential or psychological; does not position fundamental drives, passions, lust of power, greed or pride ” .

Today many contemporary utopian seeks to evade the urban lifestyle due to its demands for perfection being to pricey. Its as if people now falling back on the William Morris’s behaviour to rejecting the overlap of technology/industrial society.

US

We are about change in a world filled by realistic barriers, governed to

Bind us by the laws of society, urban society. We do not need rules to express our views to the world , if god truly exists then  the earth shall be our silver platter/canvas depicting a nation’s  blind dreams. What we see and dream becomes  more than a fantasy in and we pursue what others choose to give up. Utopia is something said to be impossible to reach, however we dream its fictional reality therefore it shall be possible if not by the founders, let it be the followers. The future is always at our disposal just like an object easily becoming our medium at any given moment. Materialism is not about obsession but the ability to construct the right world with a correct medium. Nothing is accomplished without sacrifice or action mainly force.   

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Bend the rules, have a break from norms should you truly wish to be reborn. An

Artist will always be as good as his tools and his works bare the quality of a destaned future. All  is meaningless without action.

My manifesto= Contrastratic

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Atomic Effects

The Atomic Bomb

It was during the peak of Hitler’s rein that high school dropout known as one of the world’s greatest minds discovered a way to end the coldest war of them all. A. Einstein made the first atom bomb formula, yes people the very one which levelled Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan during the year 1945.

Although an exact number had not been truly recorded those who were present in that city were either instantly killed or mutated and shortening life-span due to nuclear waste end results. As radiation took place in Utero, people other than children who survived were found to have a lower increase rate in cancer during the attack, and that those born after or during the radiation were not so as much as being affected.

Atomic warfare has the ability to level cities into complete wastelands high levels of radiation which can harm all living things in its path, if not instant death, you can be sure to those exposed will have a long term effect. It destroy organic matter-limiting vegetation for a while or completely, tears apart human tissue while infecting white cells to embrace molecular disruption which in-turn breeds mutation of some sort and diseases. They can either be cancer, leukemia, mental disability. It even be capable of burning fabric straight into skin of any kind. Unlike the tests in Nevada most of the radiation decayed before hitting the ground which allowed the contamination to pass over a few days, although some fail as black rain. The number of death don’t matter, it is the horrors of its aftermath which are a concern. Human genetics are altered due to the damaging of DNA, innumerable incidences increase severely such leukemia. Bombings like naturally Uranium can take millions of years to re-shaped a wasteland so it is worse of its kind knowing that only half its radiation decayed and the other is still pending.

They are two stages to an atomic bombing. 1^st water is contaminated thanks to the radiation particles being released, when the bomb hits the soil it instantly evaporates the liquid completely. This is due to high heat energy levels being released and as soon as these particles or radiation surf within rivers and seas, marine life dies in a matter of time. 2^nd all life in the nuked area will not survive for years and the effects wear off very slowly, thus decreasing the hope of rebirth in a village or city.

In all accounts atomic warfare should be avoided at all cost cause both sides will not only suffer physically but mentally as well. No one wants to be response for taking down hundreds of thousands of lives to their grave in such a manner. Such casualties do affect the atmosphere on a global scale. And it is quite clear should a nuke war pursue in future, our children’s, children’s, children’s children will suffer the consequences on a large and nightmarish scale.

No more fumes no more war- no more guns no more loss- no more hatred  no more gods. He who stands before thee shall only be judge be he who came before me and said before we and made the earth before we are!

Tech from the Ongoing

Technology is the method of making modifications to improve pre-existing solutions to a problem. It can also be a tool which helps both humans and animals to adapt to their environment faster or easier-the impossible is now possible in essence-where the difficult then becomes easy now.

Science is a system of structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observing and experimenting in order to understand something. It simulates natural processes in a controlled condition to better assess or understand something.

Reflexivity is the process of examining yourself as a researcher and the relationship of research. It is the values and thoughts of a person that will be reflected through their work, the idea of a ones thoughts and ideas end to be inherently based.

Technicism is a technological process of viewing and approaching society driven by today’s technology in a particular way. The assumption of new version being better than the old and humanity hopes that it will one day be able to control of things and the future for their benefit.

I used to rely on techs to better my days significantly in plug-in physical sources such computers, television and musical equipment to tell or reflect my vision. As an artist I thought a day without technology would be sin to my inner temple, but at some point we need a break from it all. This is what I call the human reboot system. You see one cannot truly know his value to technology unless they have been shifted off it for a brief time. My personal daily opinion is that we can go for days without tech and function naturally to a developing environment because true technology is science and we use it more than we notice. Humans thrive on understandings things to feel comfortable naturally this is done through observation and attempt to experiment. However where I stand today, without technology my days speed would be reduced and more physically active rather than turning to a semi-coach potato.

The funny thing is that both tech and sci have been at our disposal for the very beginning, we just took long to notice. For example...waking up and actually getting your body to move in the day or just in motion is a series of connections, for instance. My mind being able to reboot me to know that im on and it allowing me naturally to send messages to get me in motion is a tech based situation. The science applies to you understanding why what happened happens, whether its constant or varies each time of day. Like a computer overheating and needs to restart, we eventually get tired and our eyes similar to a monitor need sleep and a system shut down which is exhaustion.

I find it essential to embrace technology because it makes life easier and lazy to maintain, I mean who wouldn’t like to be a millionaire without effort or a king without life threatening challenges. In all accounts it is meant to make life easier therefore it continues to reduce manual labour and its risks.

My experience is that a world without technology is not logical, no one can truly run from it even the disabled a minor techs that still need assessment to become a final product like human prototypes. It is essential and though it is harming the earth’s true nature it is a vital entirety to the modern age to thrive off. However at times I do feel that it should be limited to those in control of its reality than again you could never know who can do what with what to reshape the worlds view or inspire someone.

Most of the stuff we have, we claim to not need but that’s what is clear is that these items served their purpose when they needed to and the stage of regret tends to be ungrateful to the naked eye. I enjoyed all my past products and the feelings or thoughts programmed into me. It helps you get to know what is important and vital and what isn’t to have or reproduce in future.

Clothing, transportation, processed food and communication are all tech experts in the science of survival to me. None may exist without the other or world would be without self culture and understanding, people the Wright brothers imagined the sky to be our travel system, today it is the fastest method to make it across. Thomas Edison so light brighter than the human vision, today the knight is beautifully lit for more than just sight but entertainment. Artists drew to capture history for the in times ahead, today lol it still does happen however, the camera captures moments which tell a thousand stories from every angle imaginable. Drums and singing brought joy temples and kingdoms for a limited time frame, today a CD can give you all the musical elements in a single composition of sound through headphones constantly at push of a button. We preach words of wisdom that have often changed or get lost as time grows, toady a microphones stores it all the way to your laptop or tape recorder to revision the moment of spectac0ular thought. Birth and health used to be a hope and guess for the best thing, today we monitor the outcome and know the form of nature before it is within our universe to explore and understanding life’s cycle at hand.

Basically I am still today a scientific phenomenon which is technically advanced to reflect the type or flaws and positives ‘I have been installed with. My maker knows the very limitations I contain and the potential to store within my core. I may know bounds but like gym, I can always upgrade my gurantee rate of success my successor. We are the tools set to surface a motherboard and only the vital shall burn a mark to further installations or carried in memory.

   I heard tech isn’t everything, but I say it is thing only thing.

Photography and New media

Photography is an art practice used to capture and document current or create past events on a durable canvas which needs light to burn on an image. It is like drawing at the speed of capturing much detail as possible including actual motion.

The first photographic process was invented by Louis J. M. Daguerre, called daguerreotype. It was born in as its public debut in Paris 1839 but, mostly famed in the United States NY city where hundreds of daguerreotypists vied for clients in the late 1850s. Light exposed in a camera obscura and developed in mercury vapour, each highly polished in silvered copper plate as a unique photograph that when view in proper light, exhibits extraordinary detail and 3 dimensionality. This style dominated picture making for the first 20 years in United States and most successful daguerreotypists built lavish studios on upper floors of buildings.

This is an image by Joseph Niepce of the Cardinal George D’Amboise, which also tells us the type of photography being made at early 1800s for political and artistic figures of importance.

Here is another method of William F. Tablot, in 1839 by sandwiching the flower between his photographic paper and a sheet of glass exposing the light-sensitive emulsion to sunlight, created less shadows.

Thus came Mathew B. Bradey, despite being a skilled daguerreotypist, this movement came to an end as he started a new era of collodion on glass negatives and wet plates for his photography in mid 1850s. Others such as James W. Black and Silas A. Holmes were able to document the city’s inhabitants and streets in moments, which was a rare skill to obtain. This was due to using glass plates which required less exposure time than Daguerre paper. The vast mass of images made were portraits until 1860 where as a studio called E & H. T. Anthony Company fulfilled the population’s desire to capture landscapes in unusual rural areas and busy urban scenes, this was called non-portrait photography. The stereograph was then made, a double photograph presented in such a manner that when you look at it, it displays or reflects a 3 dimensional view in a single image (personal favourite).

New media is the forms of communicating in the digital world, which includes publishing material using CDs, DVDs and the crown jewel of them all...the internet. This implies that a user obtains materials/resources via desktop or laptops, smartphones and tablets. Today every company in the world is involved with new media. This method has allowed communities to not only communicate but share interests and creating marketing on a global scale by using smaller groups than in the past.

Although old photography is quite influential towards the modern visual culture, it still remains as a powerful communication system. Technology has maintained the concept of context and framing through teachings and studies of social, political economic and cultural messaging, after all a picture’s worth a thousand words to you.

From a camcorder to a monitor to the web and your cellphone (smartphones) new media has a wider range and can also be quite contradicting. We are the disposal of redesigning imagery to help not only show reality how it sees itself and what it actually is, but even able to bring our fantasy view off single images, posters and collages. Thanks to the likes of Bill Gates, Steve Jobbs, Mark Zuckerberg and Martin Cooper. These are fathers of new media in my eyes and infinite stars soaring across the galaxy in my mind. We no longer need to go so far to capture or record what’s possibly happening in the other side of the world, television internet inform us beyond what we call in instant rate of response. However new media is only as good as its user and photography to me has changed its meaning to simply being able to capture what fascinates an individual, whether it be curiosity or  freedom of expression, it just means the documentation of an image with meaning if not to you then another.

Various examples design off new media:

http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/

http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/457963/technology-of-photography/

http://www.fitnyc.edu/2644.asp/

http://newmedia.umaine.edu/

http://www.theguardian.com/media/all