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Intro to Visual Culture Vocabulary
Vocabulary - Test 1
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Art/Design
Undergraduate 2
09/09/2013

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Culture
Definition
TH best that has been known until the time. It is appropiative and corresponds to the elite.
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culture
Definition
Entire social network of a particular society. Anthropological. Every image is a point of entry to social media.
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Art
Definition
A category of work that defines the best. The bed that falls into a canon. Provided objects or images.
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art
Definition
Art describing a craft, ability to modify, create something different and reflects a particular kind of knowledge.
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Visual culture
Definition
Aspects of culture that are manifested in visual forms.
A.k.a. How we know the world through seeing it. Connection of little c and little a
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Icon
Definition
An image that refers to something outside of its individual components, something (or someone) that has greater symbolic meanings for people. often perceived to represent visual concepts, emotions, and meanings.
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Tankman
Definition
A man who stood in front of the incoming tanks during the uprising of 189 in China's Tinanenman Square. A banned image in China
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Quoting
Definition
To edit or manipulate images in order to evoke specific responses or emotions
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Tuol Sleng
Definition
Mug-shots of Cambodian children. Means "Hill of the Poisonous Trees" or "Strychnine Hill". Tuol Sleng was only one of at least 150 execution centers in the country, during 1970s when the communist party rose to power in Cambodia until in 1979 Vietnamese invaded it. As 20,000 prisoners in this jail were killed. Tuol Sleng is the name for the museum where once stood prison S-21 (Security prision 21)
http://www.tuolsleng.com/history.php
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Machinima
Definition
Animation where you role play, designed in a pre-made platform but gives us a sense of power or control since we are making the cartoon do something. Ex. Mario Kart, Grand Theft auto; you tell Mario where to go, turn, stop, crash, etc.
This is interactive and an animation from general design platforms, interactive. With machinima, artists let you role play with voice over and control.
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Balaclava
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A kind of resistance against the state, used by pussy riot to comment on the state. "Pussy Riot" and "Ski Mask"
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Surveillance
Definition
A representation of our values and bureocreacies. Surveillance induces conformity, things on a system of power,_____, ____.
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Scopic regime
Definition
A culturally specific way of seeing that replaces the traditional order of vision as a natural phenomenon. DOes not come out of the natural sense of vision but it is ted to how we learn to see. In this sense, vision has a history and varies with time.
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Jeremy Bentham - Panopticon
Definition
1787. A prison designed with a central viewing tower that invokes conformity. Done for watchman to see inmates without them knowing they are being watched. observe (-opticon) all (pan-) inmates.
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John Haviland, Eastern State Penitentiary
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1821, completed in 1838. Prison built using panopticon design for guard to see the people. This prison also had many elements to prevent interaction between inmates and ease the job of the guards.
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CCTV
Definition
Closed circuit television
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Representation
Definition
The use of language and images to create meaning in the world around us.
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Ideology
Definition
The broad, often unarticulated, but indispensable shared sets of values and beliefs through which individuals live out their complex relationships to arrange social structures.
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Fauxtography
Definition
Images that have been manipulated through photoshop or other programs. Photographic works that transgress the assumed boarders of presumed mechanical objectivity, truth and simulation. Stages scenes/ photoshopped.
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Audiencing
Definition
Process through which an image is negotiated.
4 ways:
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Visuality
Definition
How vision is socially and culturally constructed.
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Systematic relationships
Definition
Its relations exist within a broader scheme of things.
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Semiotics
Definition
The science of signs. The world can be seen through a system of representation and it is not absolute.
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Roland Barthes
Definition
A writer and philosopher who utilized semiotics extensively and changes mane of these schools.
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Charles Peirce's semiotics
Definition
an account of signification, representation, reference and meaning
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Aesthetics
Definition
How things appear, the immediate reality.
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Aesthetics effects
Definition
May be seem as broad or reactions but they are always working.
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Commodity culture
Definition
A culture in which products are bought and sold.
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Cannon
Definition
The categorization of things into a specific groups based on specific qualities. This means that when looking at things in a certain way they may fall in x category adn when looking at it in another we may not put them there. I.E. A red shirt can be placed in the cannon of shirts if we are dividing jeans and shirts but placed in the pile of red if we are dividing all the clothes based on colo.
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Canonicity
Definition
The relation stage achieved through a dual act of inclusion and exclusion. Entails a constructed authority that is ultimately owned, and categorical in nature.
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Reify
Definition
Reification a process that an object, image or other tangible or concrete thing stands in for an abstract concept.
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Anxieties of authenticity
Definition
One of the necessary components that defines the cannons
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Authority of margins
Definition
What you achieve is an idea of a body of work that is of importance with the modifier. Some kind of art that has the lead in as a modifier.
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Cannonicity
Definition
The things that are excluded from the cannon
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