DoubleBubble, 9/24

Tuesday’s Class in the museum was different and I thought very interesting. We were able to take the ideas we have been learning in the classroom and applying it to the everyday images that we are exposed to. Although the exhibits we saw in the museum were not things we see in our day-to-day lives it was interesting because in a way, it is. With the “reading” exhibit we were exposed to the idea of ‘reading’ through the photographer’s eyes. He used his camera and went to numerous different places and took photographs of people simply reading. He found a topic and an idea and basically used it for his artwork. What I thought was great was that although he was sick and had to stay in his apartment, he never gave up and still shot pictures from his apartment. I really enjoyed the pictures of the children and also the pictures of older people. What I did not like as much were the pictures of women sunbathing. I felt those were semi out of focus and also that they were in a sense kind of stalkerish.

After this week’s reading and class I understand better the concept of Zizek and Baudrillard idea’s but now there begins to be confusion of what is real? Do we know what is real? We never really take the time to look into what is real in our society. When we see something on the news we instantly assume that what they are saying is true. When we look at things we are accustomed to know the meaning behind what we are looking at. In a way, isn’t our life compared to the life in the movies? Dr. Rog mentioned in class how we use to look at vampires and be terrified of them, but now in our society we want to fall in love with vampires. Our society is changing as a result of our media.