Photography & New Media

New media
- Medium: information carrier
- Mobile phones
- Computers
- The internet 
- Video games
- Virtual reality
- Digital film & photography
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Culturele en kunstzinnige vormingMiddelbare schoolhavoLeerjaar 4

This lesson contains 23 slides, with text slides and 4 videos.

time-iconLesson duration is: 80 min

Items in this lesson

New media
- Medium: information carrier
- Mobile phones
- Computers
- The internet 
- Video games
- Virtual reality
- Digital film & photography

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Photography
- First photograph taken in 1825
- Foundation of film, video, visual culture
- Enables us to record what we see 

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Slide 3 - Video

Video games

- Interaction between screen and user
- Takes place through an interface
- Games created by artists focus on discovering and reflecting rather than winning and shooting. 

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Net Art
- Art inspired on interacting with the digital world. 

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Representation
- What is depicted, how we interpret the artists work
- New media has changed the form of art and the way we perceive the world. 

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Form
- Often lens based, relies heavily on art forms created with cameras. 
- Often perceived as looking at it through a lens. 

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Space
- New media paves the way for compelling experiences. 
- Film projections, surround, sound 
- Therefore take up more space

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Time
- Often time based; there's a time interval involved. 
- Not only the creating is time consuming, also watching it. 

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Carrier
- Means with which or on the work is presented. 
- Photographic paper, computer or projection screen

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Network
- New media has changed our lives. 
Internet and social media have speeded up spreading of images, giving us a different perception of the world. 
- We're all part of one big network
- But: who controls the network? 

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Cindy Sherman
Take a look at this picture by Cindy Sherman. She creates self portraits that look like film stills. Here she has portrayed herself as a helpless woman in the big city. She's critisizing the male gaze

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Assignment
Like Cindy Sherman, make a self portrait inspired on a film still. 
Try to recreate it as well as you possibly can. Say something about:
- Light, the angle of the camera and composition. 

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Lost in translation
Very badly done

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Criteria:
- Example of the filmstill and your picture
- How well you've recreated it
- What you say about the features light, camera angle and composition 
- Respecting the deadline: Friday March 29 23:59 submit through private message in teams 

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