Notes from Mid-review

Robin:

Centered on the issues of voyeurism:
Consider the difference between the Lucasian Gaze and the Sartrian Gaze or “Regarde.” The difference being that Sartre spoke of the gaze as always involving another person, as opposed to the gaze of any object.

Look at:
Blow-Up, Antoinioni
Knut Asdam “Heterotopias”

It was commented that the film was “very analytical,” at the same time you need to do more investigation into the workings of the film.

Alanna:

Consider using not light as an editor of space, but notions of geometry and material as an editor of light/space.

It was said that we tend to focus only what happens in film, instead of focussing on how it was constructed. In this way, how does the “shot” (“frame,” maybe) incluence the structure of architecture?

As a general comment: Things my be lost in translation between media, but there also can be something gained. Concept of the “artifact.”

Consider the concept of the blindspot, and more specifically, how the brain lies to fill in the blindspot.

To what degree does this also lead to “internal censorship,” in which the mind makes an decision of what information is valuable and what is not?

Turn to physiology in studying vision: “Techniques of the Observer.”

What different aspects of the screen are present?

In this way, it is more about desgning the “lens” than the light itself...What are the colors/qualities/textures of light that you wish to filter or expose?

The Mary Miss piece could be considered in that it will cause people to respond to nature more in the way that she does, so the question is: why did Mary Miss make the decisions she did, not only in the veil itself but in the structure around it. In what ways do these things influence the experience of the piece?



Look at:
Thomas Kumem (sp?): Light as Paradigm.
James Turrell...although Eng is not a fan, it is still worth looking at.
Kristof Wodiczko, runs MIT media lab.
Alberti’s works on perspective. (Movie and Miss: “Alberti-esque” pictures of the world)
Jonathan Crary: “Techniques of the Observer”
Foucault: Disciplinary aspects of perception

Noorah:
Consider:
Mirror and the role of person in Antonioni,

It was said that the more we appropriate context, the more we can get into poetics.

In regards to program choice, what if you could connect a war memorial with an orphanage, or make some kind of a displacement center. If this is an option, how do you get people to find each other quickly after a disaster or displacement? An embassy could also have a displacement function.

“Sophistication of the game is in the rules”

As a general note, consider thesis as a “top down” process, in which an idea comes first, then program, site, etc. can be considered through the lens of the idea: It can be dangerous to become pinned down by all of the associations and notions connected to a particular place, program, etc.

Critics liked the way that you switched back and forth between the computer and hand drawings.

How does the “state” reflect itself in US culture (by state, I believe that foreign countries and their cultures was meant).


Unfortunately, I did not have my notebook in hand as Derrick presented...sorry about that.