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Seeing Visual Culture, Seen, Oliver Sacks, The Minds Eye, Georgina Kleege,…
Seeing Visual Culture
Visibility
Invisibility
Invisible Man
Golden Parks, Invisible Man Retreat, 1952
- It was been viewed as his own fault for not been seen, Not people who don't see him. This indicates the social role of the man.
- Even his hole was full of light, It can not make him been seen.
"My hole is warm and full of light. Yes, full of light."(Allison 6)
- Invisible: object/act that cannot be seen; not in sight; Too small to be discerned.
- What you see is a demonstration of your point of view
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- Invisibility is and visibility are not only simple binary relations. Invisibility is build in and generated by visibility. Invisibility and visibility are not separable.
Shadow
Persona
Ingmar Bergman, Persona, 1966.
The shadow in this scene is an indication that people were often driven by unconscious principles which people did not necessarily identify with.
Usage of the shadow in this shot has also expressed the stress of this woman, It creates an uneasy emotion and atmosphere to the viewers.
Plato's Cave
- Plato's Cave was a concept suggested by Socrates that people live in a cave with light behind them, they can not turn around to see the light, the only things they could perceive visually are each other and the shadow of themselves.
- This thinking experiment Created by Plato and Socrates shows that people believes what they see. The object people are seen determines what people believes.
"The prisoners in Plato’s cave were incapable of gazing directly into the light of knowledge. They had their backs to this bright light and saw only the shadows cast on the cave walls. Plato’s point was that they saw only the shadow of reality, not reality itself."
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- Shadows will always be present when there is opaque object and the presence of light. We can see the light from the center have created shadows in the background in the room.
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- Shadow has no dimension, so we can understand world's volume.
- metaphor for darkness: deviance, hollow moterousity.
- Referred to as "Zero point of painting"
- Kazimir Malevich: "This is the last painting in human are history."
Unseen
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If you are invisible, or too little to be noticed, it is one way to avoid be seen.
Blindness
Helen Keller
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- See through texture, temperature, and vibration.
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"one can no longer say of one’s mental landscapes what is visual, what is auditory, what is image, what is language, what is intellectual, what is emotional—they are all fused together and imbued with our own individual perspectives and values."(Sacks 59)
Light
Lights in L.A.
Lala Land
Damien Chazelle, La La Land, 2016.
- This is the scene shot on L.A. Freeway without any cut through entire musical.
- The atmosphere, air, and urban lights forms most of the lights element in L.A.
-Environment and weather plays an important part of natural light in L.A. Sunshine during different day time forms Exterior light on building facades and interior light where beam of light penetrating windows.
Urban Lights in L.A.
Norman Zammitt, Blue Burning, 1982
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- Strikes viewers with contrary colors with element of light to present the light aesthetics.
Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher giving that Lecture on the Orrery in which a lamp is put in place of the Sun, 1766
- The light is emanating from the center, where shows the interior illumination.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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On the other hand, Blue is darkness weakened by light.
Color
White
White Cube
"White Cube"
This White Cube was designed for gallery space. It is a symbolic space of pure, it provides visitors to interact with the presence of whiteness.
White included all colors from the light spectrum. It functions as increasing the intensity of energy in viewer's body. It awakes the creativity within viewer's mind.
Using the white cube as a exhibition place have the function to enlarge colors in the art in exhibition.
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Blue
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Yves Klein
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When the blue sinks to black, It echoes a grief that is hardly human
"What is blue? Blue is the invisible becoming visible. Blue has no dimensions, it is beyond the dimensions of which other colors partake."
Black
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square 1915
"Black is a lack, a void of light."
Giorgio Agamben remarks that being able to see darkness reveals that we are able not only to see, but not see as well.
Giorgio Agamben
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Diemut Strebe, “The Redemption of Vanity”
This is a16.78karat natural diamond covered with carbon nanotubes, a material that absorbs most light.
This expensive cost artwork was meant to create the "blackest black" ever. "vanishing" the diamond is claiming the invisibility of the blackness about the idea "absorb all light."
Andrew Dosunmu, Mother of George, 2013.
The color of black cut through the screen with a human face in Mother of George. Which shows that the view of how flesh is been embedded in the world.
“As Bey has said of the curated images, his aim was to “visualize black presence in the American physical and social landscape.”1The curated photographs do just that, and they also situate African American life within the frames of photography. The curated images make visible the coterminous histories of photography and the African American freedom struggle, directing viewers to locate Bey’s work within those interlocking cultural and visual trajectories (fig. 3).” (Smith 27)
Visible Color
Mother of George
Andrew Dosunmu, Mother of George, 2013.
- There are multiple colors cut through the screen. The contrary of colors between the dark blue curtain in the background and the warm color of people's clothing pushed the scene to the front.
- "both the pure unclouded colors and all their possible mixtures with each other yield unique chromas" (Itten 16)
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Chromophophia
Antiquity and color has been systematically marginalized, reviled, diminished and degraded.
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Robert Ryman
As like the use of the color white in his other pieces, it is merely a color.
His whites are not pure, but rather plural.
the Wizard of oz
This film scene is similar to the scene in Mother of George. The background of mountains consists mostly cool color and there is a gigantic pink water bubble centered in the screen.
Mervyn LeRoy, the wizard of oz, 1939
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Objectivity
In their book Objectivity, philosophers Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison contends that the color makes the audience feel a certain way in public agreement.
“Frege has suggested that color sensations are objective: Experience of color sensations could be made a matter of public agreement.(Daston and Galison 272)”
Darkening Blue
In Byzantine Empire used dark blue to decorate churches. The color blue has got religious connotation which symbolizing the infinite expanses of the sky.
The blue is based on French revolution ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity.
Marin Karmitz, Three Colors Blue, 1994
Blue turned temporal
Blue produce meaning in environment: water, earth, and sky.
Blue turned temporal, 2019
The vertical lines makes us think there is dripping along the image, behind we can seen a face of a black woman. This shows about the politics of black females of representation and the limits of seen.
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Seen
Voyeurism
- People like to watch other bodies without been seen
People following others in the cities, In fact, stay in the public place would be safer most of the time.
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Surveillance
Panopticism
Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
Penopticon
- The act of seeing others without been seen automatically generates viewer power, superiority, and a sense of mastery
"Hence the major effect of panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic function of power." (Foucault 201)
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Panopticon was a architectural concept established by Foucault where prisoners live in each cells of the structure are visible at all time to the center tower.
- Hypervisible: Seen beyond what is visible; Heightened visibility; Massive objects that can not avoid been seen. Ex. "There is an elephant in the room."
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Oliver Sacks, The Minds Eye
Georgina Kleege, Blindness and Visual Culture
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