User:Emily/Thematic Project/Trimester 03/01

Brainstorming and Collective visual mapping
collective notions...

encyclopedia

keywords:

archive, naming things,

modern notion:

dataset --> neutral way of ordering

the alphabetical ordering comes from Diderot & Jean le Rond d'Alembert, 18th century

connected to the enlightment movement in France

take the power from authorities and give the knowledge to the people

'god' is on the same level as 'plants'

before:

encyclopedia's were authorized by the church or monarchy

the encyclopedia was strongly structured in hierarchies(hierarchy of knowledge)

also in the university: demons and angels were part of science

[film maybe watch later] prosperus?, a adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest from begin 1990s produced by Keith Griffins?

object

drawing a line around things

example: house & tree

keywords:

possibility to name something?

florian: is an object something concrete?

solange: is there such a thing as a digital object?

thomas: a digital object is an object within an object?

i see a digital object as a concept.

julie: object can be identified + isolated

ruben: can anger be an object?

maybe anger is a state?

florian: object vs atribute?

also object in grammer, also something not physical

florian: maybe we can name a few area's where objects are used

computers & programming

fine art & sculpture

grammer

objectivication, example: commodity

economics, a currency, an object of exchange

media objects

object of desire

objection --> to disagree

florian: you can question if the division between object/subject is something that is typically for our culture

florian: example of Freud, when he talks about the 'it', the unconsious, a voice that is not a subject of control. This was first step of seeing the human being as being that is in control of itself.

florian: making an object an subject --> if you can program humans, you can also program machines to act like human --> behaviorism

florian: if you are a Marxist --> humans are objectivied in all ways

classical materialism --> you can turn everything into a commodity. That's why Marxism calls itself as materialism.

florian: the word "object" is present in all native languages here? It's a latin word.

yuzhen: in chinese 'object' means object, but also 'east' and 'west'东西（物件)

also because it's used to name a group of things

more used in the context of commodities

there is a word for 'subject' but this word is different, although the second part of the word sounds the same (主体，客体) (主观，客观)

julie: 'object' & being subject of something

florian: Latin -->

ob = against

jakere = to throw something

so, objection is literally: i throw something towards you

florian: subject and object have a mutual relation

the definition of 'object' is subjective

joana: is the opposite of 'object' maybe 'nothingness'

manetta: what about a 'hole' then for example, can you call that an object?

joana: it's only present as a negative of something that is positive

ruben: deep learning and learning concepts

florian: what about the word 'modeling'

related to AI, you can't have a machine understanding a human, without having the computer understanding a bit of the world

ruben: in deep learning it does not need to understand that on before hand, but it learns it along the way

florian: we make links to physical experiences. What about imaginary objects?

benjamin li: if someone passes away, that person is still there for me. I wrote down: translation from thoughts to matter. Then ruben said it could be also turned around: matter to thoughts.

florian: what about fairytails? example: piece of clothing that has magical properties. Would we say that these are not objects at all?

somehow maybe it is related to something that has a name?

which makes it possible to point at.

florian: example of the heart, as a love symbol, maybe more present than the association to a physicial organ

julie: are we looking for a proof of existence?

benjamin li: because i can't think of an object that does not exist yet

florian: what about the McGuffin(?) effect?

thomas: example of briefcase in Pulp Fiction

florian: object as empty signifier

object defined through its use

for joana:

gerard richter, painter

thomas ruff, photographer

made blurred work

media

florian: two uses of medium in art education:

traditional use of medium in art schools: sound, wood, ceramics.

from media studies: ... container

ruben: statistical medium / average

florian: in latin --> medium = middle

cihad: medium format in photography

'medium' in native speaker english

means of production, a middle to create something

medium as container (?)

ruben: the medium is in the middle between you and other party

the mediator (also present in economics for example)

yuzhen: medium is related to mass-media, and news-media

florian: --> "the media"

media studies:

news media, the media

piet zwart media:

- not designing with media--> as in designing templates for example

- but designing media...--> phylosophical approach and rethink media --> invent new ways for communication --> can also be not technical

ruben: each medium is a technology

florian: medium / media are words that are almost not used in non-european languages

only appears after 1960s, after McLuhan

something from cybernetics

as the notion of 'environment' is media ecology

other words are used for that: artistic material

florian: weird situation that everybody acknowledge that it is important nowadays, but a lot of people found it hard to define

what is the difference between a tool and a medium?

example: language

- is sound a medium?

- is speech a medium?

- is light a medium?

there is no strict answer (!)

example:

from media studies perception:

--> no not film is a medium, but celluloid is the medium

from scientific perception:

no not light is the medium, but particles that transmit the light

Reading List and assignment:

What is an object

Martin Heidegger, The Thing, 1935/1962 in: Fiona Candlin and Raiford Guins, The object Reader, Routledge, 2009, 113-123

What is an a medium

What is an encyclopedia