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Reflection, Synthesis,Evaluation

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  • Negativland. "Two Relationships to a Cultural Public Domain." Law and Contemporary Problems 66.1-2 (Winter-Spring 2003): 239-262.





    OR PONDER THESE QUESTIONS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE SEMESTER

  • Could one trace a geneaology of collage from its modernist origins up through its various new media manifestations, or is the contemporary collage aesthetic itself a fragmented inheritance?


  • How do the genres of avant-garde poetry, experimental music and interactive writing relate to the collage aesthetic within the visual arts?


  • Can flash animation, digital art and other forms of emitted light qualify under the traditional rubric of collage, or are they more properly considered in a separate aesthetic category?


  • What is the significance of the mass media's use of the collage aesthetic via new media applications in its presentation of advertising, entertainment and news content?


  • Does the collage aesthetic betray a particular political ideology? How does the use of new media applications inform this dynamic?


  • Will improved access to cultural and material resources dilute or enhance the aesthetic and political impact of collage as an art form?


  • What might recent intersections between the collage aesthetic and new media applications suggest about broader questions of technology, urbanization and globalization?


  • What does the collage aesthetic (esp. in the age of new media applications) have to say about authenticity, influence, and originality?


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    OR AUTHOR/PONDER SOME BIG, COMPREHENSIVE, END-OF-SEMESTER TYPE QUESTIONS ABOUT COLLAGE

  • What makes for an effective collage aesthetic?

  • Are there, as Chris Cutler suggests, legitimate and illegitimate applications of the collage aesthetic?
        Or is the collage aesthetic an attempt to subvert the paradigm of legitimacy?

  • Does the collage aesthetic tend to be angry? Annoying? Funny? Unsettling?

  • Does the collage aesthetic translate well across genres (paper to digital to film to literary to music)?

  • Could/should the so-called right-of-integrity be revised in light of developments within new media?

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    OR TO AUTHOR/PONDER THE COMMONPLACE 'BOOK'

  • Which can be found HERE
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    OR TO REVISIT A PREVIOUS WEEK'S INQUIRY IN AN ATTEMPT TO DRAW SOME LARGER CONCLUSIONS

  • About our HAPPY TOPIC.


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