1. Define the 17th century 'Scientific Revolution', and say how it changed European thought and world view.
Answer:
Of all the changes that swept over Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the most widely influential was an epistemological transformation that we call the "scientific revolution." In the popular mind, we associate this revolution with natural science and technological change, but the scientific revolution was, in reality, a series of changes in the structure of European thought itself: systematic doubt, empirical and sensory verification, the abstraction of human knowledge into separate sciences, and the view that the world functions like a machine. These changes greatly changed the human experience of every other aspect of life, from individual life to the life of the group. This modification in world view can also be charted in painting, sculpture and architecture; you can see that people of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are looking at the world very differently.
2. Give examples of how we can we still see evidence of the 'Scientific Revolution' in the world today.
Answer:
The Scientific Revolution: The Medieval World View
A world-view is a composite of several interpretive models through which the individual establishes his or her identity relative to everything else in the universe. In the broadest of terms, any world-view is made up of four component elements.
In the first of these components, which can be designated the Theological element, man tries to define himself in relation to the transcendent. Questions are asked, such as Is there a God or gods? What is the nature of God? How am I to relate to that which is absolutely ultimate? In general, a person's transcendent presuppositions have a determinative impact upon all other aspects of their world-view.
The second component is Psychological in nature, and asks such questions as Who am I, and what is my significance in the greater scheme of things. Does my individuality have meaning?
Third would be the Sociological aspect. How is man to live with his fellows? How should human society be organized?
Fourth, What is the nature of the universe? How did it begin and how will it end? What is the nature of my relationship with the material world? In the broadest sense, this may be designated the Cosmological aspect of a world view.
A world-view is a composite of several interpretive models through which the individual establishes his or her identity relative to everything else in the universe. In the broadest of terms, any world-view is made up of four component elements.
In the first of these components, which can be designated the Theological element, man tries to define himself in relation to the transcendent. Questions are asked, such as Is there a God or gods? What is the nature of God? How am I to relate to that which is absolutely ultimate? In general, a person's transcendent presuppositions have a determinative impact upon all other aspects of their world-view.
The second component is Psychological in nature, and asks such questions as Who am I, and what is my significance in the greater scheme of things. Does my individuality have meaning?
Third would be the Sociological aspect. How is man to live with his fellows? How should human society be organized?
Fourth, What is the nature of the universe? How did it begin and how will it end? What is the nature of my relationship with the material world? In the broadest sense, this may be designated the Cosmological aspect of a world view.
3. From your research, do you think that the contemporary art world values art work
that uses new media/technology over traditional media?
Answer:
World Views:
- Modernity and post-modernity are reductionist in their approaches to complexity
- “Old science” and its modernist and simplistic models
- Humanities with its simplistic reduction to ‘randomness’ and relativism
Personally:
- Not sure I agree here – science may be ‘negative’ in its predeliction deconstruction – it’s very epistemology. Perhaps these are are different kinds of ‘skepticism’ – material skepticism of science and the humanistic (e.g.: ‘all the world’s a stage’) skepticism of the humanities?
- Art became post-modern, science ‘remained’ modern – so when art involves science it is skeptical, dystopic, and detached from material science itself
- My biggest issue with this is that it doesn’t acknowledge my of the cross-linking of these cultures that has been on-going (computing culture, the postmodern having been informed by, if not inspired by things like ‘virtual reality’ or networked rhizomatic structures – again much ado about nothing. The good life behind our backs…
4. How has Pipilotti Rist used new media/technology to enhance the audience's experience of her work.
Answer:
Pipilotti Rist has created a series of videos for the NBC Astrovision by Panasonic that overlooks the traffic jams, flashing lights, high-tech screens, and billboards of this famous New York crossroads. Pipilotti Rist is internationally known for her rich vocabulary of sensual images, often focusing on the body, that articulates an open-ended vision of truth and identity. She is engaged in a deep dialogue with disrupted harmony, exposing the darker underbelly of her utopias and manipulating video to reveal her agenda. With her project for the Public Art Fund, Rist continues this direction in her work, realizing snapshots that glorify the ordinary, the hidden, the longed for, the ugly and the awkward as expressions of urgency and desire.
5. Comment on how the installation, sound and scale of 'Ever is Over All' (1997) could impact on the audience's experience of the work.
Answer:
Rist positively describes the negative aspects of femininity, which have been rejected by women themselves. She articulates her ideas with weightless images of love, death, everyday life, and fiction. Her unique style is a product of the pliant, sensual relationship between music and video art. Rist is also a band member and has designed the stage sets. Her video installation inspires body awareness in the audience as a totally new experience, different from large video clips shown on a huge screen. In Ever Is Over All, a young woman in a light blue dress merrily walks along the street with a huge, colorful, long-stemmed tropical flower in her hand. She smashes the flower into the windows of parked cars as she passes them. The combination of violent urban fantasy, romantic music, and destructive sound suggests the birth of a sophisticated visual language, expressing the direct, realistic senses of the MTV generation.
6. Comment on the notion of 'reason' within the content of the video. Is the woman's behaviour reasonable or unreasonable?
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7. Comment on your 'reading' (understanding) of the work by discussion the aesthetic (look), experience and the ideologies (ideas, theories) of the work.
Answer:
After I read this topic I know what is 'Scientific Revolution' and I found diiferent media gives different effect. Every different technique can practical application nowaday Through the realizable gimmic to the audience resonance.
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipilotti_Rist
