Destination Sensitive Drawing

An Exercise on "Pocket Reference to 101 excuses. How Art Legitimizes Itself" by Manuel Saiz

Traditional Phase
Rythmic- Gerard ter Borch -  Das Konzert
Natural Beauty - Mona Lisa -  Leonardo Da Vinci
Beautiful Body -  Escha Van Den Bogerd - Lumunaria
Color sensitive - Egon Sciele - Four Tries
Glory to Lord - Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen -Triptych with the adoration of the Magi
Gratitude - Matthias Stom - Old Women Praying
Master's Strength - Bartolomeo - God appearing to St Mary Magdalen and St Catherine of Siena
Already Legitimate - Creation of Adam - Michelangelo


Positive Phase
Sacret - Sandro Botichelli, Birth of Venus
Shaman -
Paternity / Maternity - Leonardo Da Vinci, Madonna of the carnation
Rousseau - Gustav Klimpt, Death and Life
Help here - Pablo Picasso, Old Guitarist
Help there -
Teenager's dilemma -
Wealth Lonely Seniors - Poul Cazanne
Embracing Democracy -
Correctness - Claude Monet, Water Lilies
Greenpeace - Dom WOgrodzie
A Window Of Injustice - 
Opression of social groups -
Gay issues - Rafi Perez, Homosexual Malerei
Socal Irony - Frida Kahlo, What I Saw in the Water or What the Water Gave Me
 Gender Inversion - Rafal Olbinski, Tosca
 Evil Corporation - Ali Miharbi - RTÜK
 US president related -
 Amnesty International - Giuseppe Arcimboldo -Earth
 Risky - Hakan Akcura - Hafriyat


Wicked Phase
Brutal Truth - Andres Serrano, The Morgue
Tough City - Darin Knupp, Dancing City
 Beehive - Lena Kapinsky, Downtown Traffic
 Privacy - Van Gogh, Bedroom.
 Pschotheraphy - Frida Kahlo, The Love Embrace of the Universe
 Bodily fluids - Andres Serrano - Piss Christ
 Self-punishment - 
Anti - innocence - Egon Sciele - Death and the Maiden
Anti - animal - 
The perversion of the innocent - 
Creepy - Pieter claesz - Vanitas
Rotten -  Delilah Smith - Rotten to the core
Stuffed animals- Pierre Maxo - Jungle Paintings
Hitler - George Grosz - Hitler in Hell
War zone - Fausto Zonaro - Mehmed Constantinople
Heretic - Dali - Geopoliticus Chils


Anti-Performative Phase
Useless - Patrick H. Bruce - Nature Morte
Crazy event - Thomas Eakins - The Gross Clinic
Out of focus - August Macke - Women with a yellow jacket
Too uncomfortable - Margareta Daley - Mother Earth
Too long - Vittorio Pellazza - A path of dreams

Too slow - Osman Hamdi - BeyKaplumbağa Terbiyecisi

Stillness - Mischelle Teague - Havoc winds and strong tree

Artist freedom - Salvador Dali - Dreams
Absense-
Clown-


Operational Phase
Mechanical - 
Absurd Science - Don Shank - Microscope
Systematic - Pierre Carriere- Belleuse
Absolute Order - Mondrian - Composition of Red Blue Yellow
Barok world - Peter Paul Rubens - The Raising of the Cross

Media Phase

Simultaneity and Zapping - 

Time Shift - Dali - Persistanc eof Memory

Celluloid - 

Hollywood - 

Look alikes - Andy Warhol - Madonna

Cult - 

9/11 - Drasco Klikovac - The Night Above New York City

Nudity

Merve Ünsal "Try" - Osman Koç "Living Istanbul"

 I have chosen Merve Unsal's "Try" and Osman Koç's "Living Istanbul" for this exercise because both of the works has an idea or a content that lies behind the work. Both of the works are not mere technology but they have a say over something. 

 In "Try" Merve Unsal focuses on a macro issue rather then an individual experience. She tries to experiment on some political issues and creates an online, open and unfixed archive on issues like political crimes, human rights, freedom of expression, law, the relationship between the state and the individual etc. When you go to the website you encounter various different tags which respresent the keywords that she has in mind to think with, and they lead you to various different contents. 

 In "Living Istanbul" what Osman Koç focuses is much more individualistic. It stands between the micro and macro by linking the technological mechanism to heart beats of a human. The installation has sound recordings from different parts of Istanbul.  It needs at least one person's heart beat to start "living", heartbeats trigger the sounds of Istanbul. In that hense it poses a humanistic view and value to human experience over the city. It binds human experience and the characteristics that a city has. 

 Osman Koç we can see the new media as a technology producing a mechanism for the art work, in Merve Unsal's work we see a different use of a more common technology in the light of a different idea. Both of them has a content and an underlying idea behing their work. However while Merve Unsal was pointing attention to a political issue with a macro level an analysis, Osman Koç introduces a work which emhasizes the human experience and human existance for a city or a mechanism to work. In that sense they're posing attention to different sides of the coin by both placing a social content from human life behind their work. 

The Erasure of Technology in Cultural Critique by Belinda Barnet

 I find this article interesting mainly because I didn't know that much about the place of technology in cultural critique and this article poses differenrt arguments about not taking technology as a mere representation like language but rather thinking about it with its concrete consequences and products that effect our lives directly like an automobile. Because the article suggests that theory and technology are two different things. 

This article does not have a direct analysis about new media art but it introduces a different discussion for the way we can think about technology within the area of culture. In that sense, I think, it forms a good exercise to think about technology in general because the article introduces different angles of the issue by refering to different theorists including Derida and suggests both a material and a political approach while leaving the discussion open for questioning it as an embodied experience both as a threath or a chance in terms of its capabilities. 

Challenges for a Ubiquitous Museum: Presenting and Preserving New Media by Christiane Paul

 The article focuses on one of the most apperent challenges that the digital medium poses to traditional art world, mainly to museums and galleries on how to present and preserve the new media art works and how museums and galleries has to adjust themselves to deal with this new technology. Since new media art work has changed various concepts related to an art work such as being active, dynamic, progressive and interactive, it also shifted the attention to the process rather than the end object. Hence the way how these works are presented and documented forms a novel issue for the area of museumology. As it is discussed in the article;
"While an artwork that needs to be experienced over an extended period of time poses a challenge perse, the time-based nature of new media art is far more problematic than that of film/video, which still presents itself as a linear finished "product". New media art, however, is potentially dynamic and non-linear."


 I find this article interesting mainly beacuse it poses attention to a highly practical side of what digital media has challenged. Another reason for me to choose this article is that it also contains a discussion about the "new media" as a term and criticizes it as being so wide and operating as an umbrella term, hence remaining insufficiant to refer to the characteristics of digital medium which is highly hibrid. It also makes the point that every period of time in history has its own new media which is the digital one for us right now.

The Popularization of Video Art: A tale of power, technology and media culture by Christos Barboutis

 I found this article interesting mainly because it provides a discussion over position of video art by placing it within wider networks of discussions feeding form media theories and sociological analysis.  

In the article video art is discussed as involving the "video" as a medium or a form of technology that enables an art form to be accessable to wider masses. Hense it forms a good case study to look at the relation between technology and art. Position of technology in an art work, being an instrument for its creation/delivery or a reason for the diffusion of aesthetics, is discusses with various aspects in the article. 

 Another reason that I find this article significant is that fact that It  discusses video art in comparison to TV and cinema as being important parts of media culture which adresses to masses (an absent audience) by forming a context for interpersonal relation. The article argues that the popularity for vide art lies at this same point. Digital media too, like broadcasting, has the interpersonal character of communication. As it is posed in the article the relationship between interactivity, mass appeal and interpersonal communication set a new paradigm for the popularization of video art.  

 Article also involves a discussion over technology positioning it as an instrument of power and makes a power  analysis about its funcrtion in culture.  Involving a discussion about the power structure in digital media makes worthy of attention. Furthermore it contains another sociological argument feeding from Bourdieu and his concept of "cultural capital" to theorize about the way the audience becomes engaged with the cultural art forms. This interdisciplinary approach that this article takes appels to me most.