Signs of Change

post/industrialisation

agricutural society

manufacturing

slow process

North & South

work mill - moved to India/China

changes

manufacture

technological

communication

information

post industrialisation

- nation passes/dodges a phase of society

information society - knowledge economy - digital citizens

Daniel Bell

The Great Exhibition of 1851

- crystal palace - hyde park

- trade show - 'The British Way' - what Britian made

- people come from all over the world

Paris' Great Exhibition 1990

- the Eiffel Tower

- influencial - development of society

 inc. Art & Design

- lead to V+A eventually

Fordism

Henry Ford

manufacturing system - low cost goods + paid the workers decent wages - so they could buy them

(DeGrazia 2005)

Standardization

Ford doubled wages - justify paying more for non skills

Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times

 Lewis Hine 1974 - 1940

Norma Ray - film

Turner - rain steamtrain

      - captures the intrusion of industrial in the countryside

Head, Hand, Heart - arts & craft movement motto

head - creativity

hand - skill

heart - honesty

Eli Whitney - made a machine to pick seeds from cotton

- unientended consequences 

 - meant more slaves to pick cotton

James Hargreaves - spinning jenny

1856 - first synthetic dye created - by accident

Ghandi Marie

Walter Benjamin essay

'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction' 1936

discusses an 'aura' possessed by an original piece of art

- lots of people have reacted to it

Duchant - Urinal

"pure" art

original piece of art has links to here it was made and where viewed

mechanical reproduction

The Slow Movement Carl Honoré

return to traditional forms of production

about trying to do everything at the right speed

quality over quantity

Miguel Adrover 2009

started with recycled fashion then changed to eco fabrics

Kate Malone

Gareth Neal

- wood core material

ghost of furniture past 

- buying the idea of the artist

Daniel Bell

                                         then

economy produces goods ------> provides services

knowledge becomes valid form of capital producing ideas - main way to grow economy

DETROIT

more value given to working with head then hands

beautiful mind

Danny Boyle - nation of ideas

Paul Romer- 

      economic growth

      which education system is best

Kevin Spacey

art + culture are critical, not only for our well being, but for the economy

        

1st second life divorce

Mini Research

Find a theory/theorist about any of the lectures.

I chose Visual Culture.

J Berger said;

'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognises before it
can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes
before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the
surrounding world; we explain that world within words, but words
can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation
between what we see and what we know is never settled.'

J.Berger, Ways of Seeing. London: BBC 1972, p. 7

What I think it means;

We learn through looking/ seeing and copying/mimicking. We see things everyday of our lives and from this we can start to determine our own individual preferences and where we fit in the world. Despite seeing things all the time we don't always realise what they are or even that they are there in the first place. Other times we see things but just don't know how to explain them in words. 

Visual Culture combines a few different studies and focuses on elements of culture that rely on visual images. 

http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/visualarts/VisualCulture/VisualCultureStudies-definitions.html
http://www.carlosmoreno.info/upn/2012/0415106222.pdf
http://engl101-f12-lombardy.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/BergerWaysOfSeeing.pdf/380176156/BergerWaysOfSeeing.pdf

Thoughts and Reflections

Judy Chicago - The Dinner Party

39 settings for historical + mythical women

As soon as we were told about 'The Dinner Party' I immediately thought of Caryl Churchill's 'Top Girls', where at the beginning of the play, the main character; Marlene, hosts a dinner party to celebrate her upcoming promotion and invites iconic women from history.  I studied the play in my A-Level English Literature classes.