Lecture #1, Web Tech #1

Art = Form + Content
The second day of school, sunny day. Had herbal chicken soup at Bugis food court. Mmmmm... School starts at 9pm and ends at 6pm! But I managed to stay awake of course, I'm always in low energy consumption mode. Today I actually feel that I'm learning something from lecture, because Noora's lecture last year was just a whole bunch of theory to me

August 5, Tuesday

• Introductory lecture for Issues in Media Arts by Rashid
• Screening of a video (forgot the title >_<)
• Examples of ways of seeing and interpreting an artwork
  
• Group tutorial with Rashid
• Learning how to judge an artwork
  
• Web Tech class with Andreas
• Created a blog for school documentation
  

7 factors to look out for in an artwork

• What? Where? Why? Who? When? What happened before? What happened after?

Form - Visual aesthetics

• Elements
• Principles of design - balance, contrast, emphasis, proportion
  
• Actual materials used - paint/brush, video, film, etc

Content - What the artist wants to say

• Semiotics
• The medium is the message - Marshall McLuhan
• Metaphor
• Cultural Plurality
• Consciousness
  
• Stream of Consciousness
• Culturalism
• Multiculturalim

Effect vs. Affect