COMM 100B
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When Judging Artâs Authenticity, the Law vs. the Market As art prices rise, so does the temptation to use the courts to settle disputes over artistic authenticity. But in the art world, judge and jury can be overturned by a higher authority: the market.
This is an article about artistic authenticity and how judges mark the rule on it in the courtroom but the market overturns their power and determines the authenticity. I thought this was an interesting article because it relates to the theme of the class and the many various cases on copyright, right of publicity, “suggest that reproduction has become an important issue not only because copies and their technologies are more pervasive” but because the originals have been staked at higher prices. This was article was a great way to integrate what we have been learning in class, into real life.
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This is an image where the Disney princesses have been reproduced and drawn to match the culture of our time today. The Disney princesses are a famous trademark that have been embedded into our culture since the day I was born from what I remember. This trademark was digitally edited and the princesses signature dresses were replaced with trendy clothes of the current time. The digital has “thus altered the noeme, the “that has been” effect” and it brings a different kind of understanding to this trademark. And because the trademark is bound to exist forever, it is easy to make changes to it and alter it.
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This is an image of 21st century panopticism. It shows the modern day of panopticism and I interpreted this illustration as our inability to understand how much our eye can see and experience in this world, more than we can conceive. This relates to the concept of panopticism as it is looks like the eye is able to be an unseen force upon the city that is reflected in the eye. It is like how our eye is probably able to see and acknowledge the unseen forces like the government or video cameras that are watching us, but sometime we do not think twice to the option that they could be surveilling us.
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This is an article about the recent bombings during the Boston Marathon. It features videos that actual runners and spectators recorded and captured while running the race which were immediately uploaded to the Internet. It shows how rapid technology and cell phone use has grown throughout the years. Cell phones and social media have especially been used to upload and share breaking news on the Internet with fellow peers. “The camera phone’s greatest potential in global news terms is in the immediate recording of public events and in its ability for data to be shared and viewed via Bluetooth, Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), and the World Wide Web.” Additionally, through the use of the camera phone, mobile witnessing has provided a different and more personal view in comparison to actual news stations. It shows the importance of mobile witnessing as citizen journalism and how there is always a political and historical context surrounding it as well because of the witness’s direct recording of the event. Additionally, it gives the witness a chance to veer away from the position of spectatorship and engage deeper into the witnessing.
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http://nymag.com/thecut/2013/04/male-gaze-dwight-howards-pearly-whites.html
This is a link of Los Angeles Lakers Dwight Howard and a short description of him through a “male gaze”. I thought this article was interesting because usually with the male gaze, it is the heterosexual male looking at the woman and her curves but this article was the writer (a woman) looking at the man (Dwight Howard) through the male gaze. In the article, she compliments Howard’s “massive biceps” and how “hilarious” he is and this is yet another example of how society has norms not only for women but even for men and as to how a man should look physically, and even with his personality.
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Adriana Lima Debuts The All New Angel Card
This is a gif set of how Adriana Lima is glamorously and unnecessarily presenting the new Angel card from Victoria’s Secret. As an example of the gaze, when a person looks at this gif set, they don’t only see Adriana Lima holding a piece of plastic but they see a beautiful goddess that they should covet to be like due to societal norms. The gaze is a field of looking rather than an individual looking by themselves with no influence whatsoever. In relation to gaze, the way people usually look at this gif set is through the male gaze and how their eyes settle on her curves and how voluptuous and sexy she looks. This in turn relates to spectatorship and how the way a person recognizes an image is a representation of their world of meaning. In this case, the spectator recognizes the image (or gif set) as a beautiful woman and that to be like her or to even feel a smidgen of what it is to be like her is to purchase the Angel card. It just shows that the world of the meaning lies in beauty according to Adriana Lima’s facial characteristics and to be beautiful and even considered cool and pretty is to be in the Angel club card.
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This photo is an example of how an artist takes a famous image which appropriates pop culture, in this case the popular name brand Obey, and puts a political twist behind it to make a statement. The Obey brand is of great importance in our pop culture today and the way the artist put a picture of Jesus rather than the Obey face made a political statement. It is like the poster is saying Obey Jesus and follow Him. The artist is trying to convey the idea of following Jesus and becoming a believer in the Gospel rather than giving in to the things of this world like materialism which is extremely evident in the Obey clothing brand.
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This Dove Commercial has been the all over social media and the Internet lately because of the way it interpellated viewers, particularly women. This commercial starts off with all these women describing their facial features to a man that draws what they are describing without looking at them. Then the women are looked at by other women and they describe the women to the man as well. The big difference is that the women describing themselves usually said negative things about their features but the other women talking about other women highlighted their features and made them prettier than what the actual person thinks they look like. This is an example of a picture/video that reaches out to the viewer and stirs some kind of relation and emotion within the person. Especially within many women that posted on various social media, they expressed how this video touched their hearts and helped them realize how beautiful they actually are. The message of this image was intended to draw in the viewer and reach out to the wider audience of women aged 20-60 and this kind of advertisement was very personal to many women. This is a perfect example of how an advertisement can interpellate viewers and helps each member of the audience feel singled out like an individual even though the ad is reaching out to a wider audience.
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High Plains Blogger: Don't mess with Texas? This is an article about the phrase “Don’t Mess with Texas” and how it started off with an original meaning and over time was misinterpreted by others due to the way it was embedded in its culture. It was meant to promote anti-litter but now has turned into a “macho” kind of slogan that makes Texas seem like they want to be tough. This relates to signs, signifiers, and their signified concept. Many signs can meant to signify one type of concept but could be totally misinterpreted due to circumstances within certain cultures. In that case, it would bring about many various interpretations of one sign.
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This is a picture of a rose. As a sign it is the actual picture of the rose. As the signifier, it is a rose with the red petals and the green stem. The signified concept is supposed to represent love, desire, passion or however the viewers interprets it as. Roses are always given as a gift on Valentine’s Day or when someone wants to portray and present some kind of emotions to the other person. This picture can have many multiple meanings as a sign.
