Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York

This course examines ways of looking and ways of seeing, both personally & professionally as artists and in a larger cultural context. Through field trips to contemporary art and other cultural sites, conversations with visiting critical thinkers and practicioners, readings, discussions, and visual & written responses, we will examine how we look, think, act, create and respond--critically questioning our own artistic practices and ways of looking at the world.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Objectivity

What is an object, what is a subject?

Jean Paul Sartre wrote something like: "When somebody is looking at you, he's the subject, you're the object. When somebody is looking at you, you can't detect his eyecolor."

Time passed, and things changed. Now we have objects looking at us, and they aren't turning into subjects. It's objects looking at subjects. Surveillance cameras with face detection will detect your eyecolor, fou shou.

Instead if you're using this wonderful way to irritate the softwear.

http://cvdazzle.com/


You enable the object to register your subjectivity by drawing simple lines and geometrical shapes on your face. For other subjects it is still possible to recognize you. That's the future.




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