Answer:
The Industrial Revolution was a period from the 18th to the 19th century where major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of the times. The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in human history; almost every aspect of daily life was influenced in some way. Most notably, average income and population began to exhibit unprecedented sustained growth.
2. Research both Modernist paintings in order to comment on the subject matter, form and style used to celebrate the machine and motion in each painting. Answer the question in 2 parts for each painting.
Answer:
RMB City is a virtual city in the online world of Second Life, planned and developed by Beijing artist Cao Fei (SL: China Tracy). Launched in 2008, and open to the public since January 2009, RMB City is a platform for experimental creative activities, one in which Cao Fei and her collaborators use different mediums to test the boundaries between virtual and physical existence. As a laboratory for investigations in art, design, architecture, literature, cinema, politics, economy, society, and beyond, RMB City is constantly nourished by new and innovative projects, and supported by leading international art institutions and networks. As a model of avant-garde urban planning, it traverses the boundaries between past and future, real and virtual to link China and the cosmopolitan contemporary world.
3. Research Cao Fei's RMB City (2007-9) in order to comment on this work in more depth.
Answer:
4. RMB City is described as a utopia/dystopia. Comment on what these terms mean, and how they can be applied to the work.
Answer:
Throughout the “construction process” and actual operation period of RMB City in 2008, the Serpentine Gallery in London displayed its progress in a dedicated physical space. Since then, RMB City has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and institutions around the world.
Virtual institution- and individual collector-“managed” buildings inside RMB City will hold regularly-changing exhibitions and events open to all Second Life users.
After much anticipation, RMB City opened to full public access in January, following construction since the summer of 2008.RMB City is an art community in the 3-D virtual world ofSecond Life and was realised by Beijing-based artist Cao Fei as a public platform for creativity.
Second Life is as an online platform that has amassed 14 million registered users. Participants create a parallel reality in which to live out their dreams. Each user is represented by an avatar, a digital figure that they can customise and control. Cao Fei has constructed a virtual city that will continue to grow and change over its two-year run with the participation and support of leading international art institutions and creative practitioners.
The project explores the potential of an online art community, seeking to create the conditions for an expansive discourse about art, urbanism, economy, imagination and freedom.
One of the first art projects taking place in RMB City is Master Q’s Guide to Virtual Feng Shui by Huang He, a young artist who brings the ancient Chinese spatial methodology into the new virtual metaverse of RMB City.
Reflecting on China’s recent urban and cultural explosion, the architecture of RMB City is an amalgam of ancient and modern Chinese icons from the panda to the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics.
Reference: http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/georgians/industrial/industrialisation.html
http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vindust.html
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2008/05/cao_fei_rmb_city.html
http://www.journal-online.co.uk/article/6296-cao-fei-rmb-city
No comments:
Post a Comment