Discussion questions #2: Digital Divide

1.In the article "Digital Divide", Claire Bishop states that the relation between digital technologies and visual art. Do you believe artists intend to connect the world with digital technologies and want to make it as a part digitized?

2.Claire Bishop asks some questions, she said"Does work premised on a dialog,  prosumer model, seeking real-world impact, need to assume representation or an object form in order to be recognized as art?"  How do you understand the sentence? Does design as an important factor for art to create work with inspiration? 

    

Project #3: Animation with sound

Project #2: Animation

    The animation shows the relationship between human activity and natural environment. Some industries built new factory in order to promote the economic development, but maybe they are blot on the environment if people do not think of control pollution. Now more and more serious pollution of the earth, it is too not paying attention to environmental protection, in order to the emergence of these problems. If in the process of economic development pay no attention to protect the environment, they are subject to nature's revenge and the earth's resources will run out soon.

Discussion questions #1: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

1. What is the meaning of quotation by Paul Valery? What is the concept of authenticity that Walter Benjamin wants to express? What is the difference between European and Russian films?

2. Walter Benjamin states that “The uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable from its being embedded in the fabric of tradition.” what does this sentence mean?

Project #1: Diptych Montage

    Apocalypse means a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil. It contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world. The environment destroyed by human activity. Human activities cause some natural disasters. For example, storm, earthquake, drought, tsunami, and nuclear bomb.  We live in the age of the final, ultimate Apocalypse. If human do not realize to stop polluting the environment which we live. The world will be on the brink of apocalypse.