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Archive for June, 2010
archetype: Wise old man
June 26, 2010
Jung’s archetypes
June 26, 2010What is the soul? Jung considered the activity of the soul to be the ceaseless flow of images that move through dreams, daydreams, fantasy, and myth. Images are as present during the day as they are running through our dreams at night, but during our waking lives they operate more or less unconsciously, affecting our lives in ways beyond our conscious knowing (Sardello, 1995).
The contents of the collective unconscious are called archetypes. Jung also called them dominants, imagos, mythological or primordial images, and a few other names, but archetypes seems to have won out over these. An archetype is an unlearned tendency to experience things in a certain way.
The archetype has no form of its own, but it acts as an “organizing principle” on the things we see or do. (Boeree, Dr. C. G, 1997/2006)
The archetype is like a black hole in space: You only know its there by how it draws matter and light to itself.
Sardello, R. (1995). Love and the soul. New York : HarperCollins
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/jung.html , accessed 23/06/10
Jung’s soul
June 24, 2010What is soul? – an answer which applies to it in its full extent. It is substance in the sense which corresponds to the definitive formula of a thing’s essence. That means that it is ‘the essential whatness’ of a body of the character just assigned. Suppose that what is literally an ‘organ’, like an axe, were a natural body, its ‘essential whatness’, would have been its essence, and so its soul; if this disappeared from it, it would have ceased to be an axe, except in name. As it is, it is just an axe; it wants the character which is required to make its whatness or formulable essence a soul; for that, it would have had to be a natural body of a particular kind, viz. one having in itself the power of setting itself in movement and arresting itself.
Next, apply this doctrine in the case of the ‘parts’ of the living body. Suppose that the eye were an animal-sight would have been its soul, for sight is the substance or essence of the eye which corresponds to the formula, the eye being merely the matter of seeing; when seeing is removed the eye is no longer an eye, except in name-it is no more a real eye than the eye of a statue or of a painted figure. We must now extend our consideration from the ‘parts’ to the whole living body; for what the departmental sense is to the bodily part which is its organ, that the whole faculty of sense is to the whole sensitive body as such.
…To the thinking soul images serve as if they were contents of perception (and when it asserts or denies them to be good or bad it avoids or pursues them). That is why the soul never thinks without an image. The process is like that in which the air modifies the pupil in this or that way and the pupil transmits the modification to some third thing (and similarly in hearing), while the ultimate point of arrival is one, a single mean, with different manners of being.
It follows that the soul is analogous to the hand; for as the hand is a tool of tools, so the mind is the form of forms and sense the form of sensible things.
Carl Jung
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/soul.2.ii.html
substance
essence
We are all children, because we were once children. A young child, I believe, is close to being the epitome of the soul – or the closest we get to portraying the soul in the physical. Unedited, uncensored, ruled by needs, yet untouched by self-consciousness, belief that all will be well, a tendency to dwell in fantasy.
“In every adult there lurks a child—an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education.” (Jung, C.)
rrrrrrrrrRotoscoping!
June 17, 2010
I love the (not so new) idea of rotoscoping! (Snow White, Scanner Darkly, A-ha video, to name a few more obvious ones!) This started with drawing over a glass plate tracing real film footage projected onto the glass, and evolved to become a digital computer effect. It can still involve laborious tracing and sketching over frames, but the end result is often wonderful.
I love drawing the human form, love animation, love realistic movement with animation / simple line drawing. Trying to do something meaningful with this though… Want to use real audio – so what do I (or does my actor) say? I am searching through this blog, looking for something at the moment. Another idea was to scan in old photos and rotoscope, and possibly animate a few… Give them movement of sorts – insert the soul back into the ‘captured’ moment…
Why? Well some are memories / images / sanpshots of times where I felt the existence of the soul… times when I was my essential self. times when the mask fell away. Uh oh – bordering on metaphysics and purple velvety things here now. So easy to slip…! But although this is now a personal journey, do I really want to personalize it so heavily? I would rather avoid that…
I am not necessarily searching for my soul, but rather the soul in the digital… in text, in imagery, in words, in pixels, in memories, in statements, in drama, in the moment…
Tutorial 16 June 2010
June 17, 2010Issues discussed/Subject:
Project – on a website – with some interactivity – I wanted to know if there have been any issues previously in shows with online work? I.e. connection dropping, not being left on correct page, etc. Trying to think of ways around this, ie pagesaver with link, etc. Cannot do remote view, as it is interactive… I don’t think…
Check that as long as it is live and ‘hanging’ by July 5th (day before assessment) is this ok? If not, and we have to ‘show’ it completed by 28th – how and where if some work is not online?
Questions about the final essay: So are we writing about how the project itself has gone, what we have learned, how it evolved, etc as well as looking at where we will go to next with our work, etc.?
Are we looking at Digital art in general also and where we fit within this, or purely at our own work and progression? I am trying to imagine where we will quote/use references here – as I don’t want it to end up a 3k word rant!!
I know it is strange to say, but it sounds too nice to be a MA / level 7 paper – so there must be some argument we need to enter into/debate, right?
Comments/Notes
Show
- Suggested separate stand alone server for show.
- Suggested looking at changing the layout as an installation to take away that feeling of the ‘home computer’ therefore stopping email checking, etc.
- Suggested a time-out for when work is left half way through / inactive.
- Suggested Opera, or even Chrome to hide the usual ‘menu’ on screen.
Soulspace animation:
- Liked the animated Soulspace text, and thinks the submission of text a good idea.
- Thought it looked good as simple text.
Essay:
- Remember two things:
- Work in relation to project proposal
- Where you will move with this – how you will take this into the future
- Can reference own blog, and others.
More about the journey you have made on this course. What you have learned.
Name of Tutor: Jonathan Kearney
Sign: Date: 16/06/10
A show, the audience and interactivity
June 5, 2010‘Coming across some issues now regarding how I am going to show this (oh yes, I am very aware of the lateness of this discovery!)
Trying to talk through the pros and cons of having this as a live website at the show – will people just pass it by (website on a small screen)? Should I split it to two computer screens? Should I run a film on a screen, and have the interactive element stand alone on the computer?
I always intended this to be a website – and hoped that people anywhere (not just at the show) could and would access it. BUT, the cons are that as this is a gallery showing, will it (a simple computer with website) be enticing enough to draw in people? What happens if someone leaves half way through the ‘journey’ of the site, leaving it unfinished? What page will the next person see? Will they just walk past… do I need ugly ‘home’ links after all? It seems that as I want it to run automatically, yet want an element of interactivity, I could have issues here. Not on the website, but will I need to slightly alter this for the show itself? WE are booking equipment, and time is running out, yet as my work is only just unfolding, it is only now I can see the issues and work out what I might need.
I guess I can always just book equipment myself – it will cost more, but if I don’t know for sure in time, well that is that. It will only be possibly another computer or a tft with DVD… I don’t want to drive my peers nuts with my uncertainty, and so will leave my original request for equipment as it is for now.
The issue of just how workable a normal website is, is an important consideration.
Much more pondering tomorrow. I will have it decided by tomorrow.
Ahh Pixelated Postcards…
June 5, 2010My postcard image has already caused some trouble. I feared as it is an intentionally pixelated screen grab (ie low res) – that this could possibly cross the lines of ‘simply a badly pixelated image’. I expected this online (we are so often annoyed with low res images on the web), but when I printed it out, I felt it had a wonderful, almost watercolour kind of feel – ethereal maybe…
maybe I am blind to my baby’s imperfections - but it was intended to look pixelated / constructed via the pc…. / mid-process of the gathering of pixels as the eye slowly comes in focus…
maybe I could have added some more imagery or some kind of border to show that it was intentional??? Probably… Hmmmm the rebel in me wants to leave it as is…. think I will, hope I don’t regret it… it is, after all, just a postcard. And I like it. :)
