Photography & New Media

• Culturele en kunstzinnige vorming
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

New media

- Medium: information carrier

- Mobile phones

- Computers

- The internet 

- Video games

- Virtual reality

- Digital film & photography

Photography

- First photograph taken in 1825

- Foundation of film, video, visual culture

- Enables us to record what we see 

Video games

- Interaction between screen and user

- Takes place through an interface

- Games created by artists focus on discovering and reflecting rather than winning and shooting. 

Net Art

- Art inspired on interacting with the digital world. 

Representation

- What is depicted, how we interpret the artists work

- New media has changed the form of art and the way we perceive the world. 

Form

- Often lens based, relies heavily on art forms created with cameras. 

- Often perceived as looking at it through a lens. 

Space

- New media paves the way for compelling experiences. 

- Film projections, surround, sound 

- Therefore take up more space

Time

- Often time based; there's a time interval involved. 

- Not only the creating is time consuming, also watching it. 

Carrier

- Means with which or on the work is presented. 

- Photographic paper, computer or projection screen

Network

- New media has changed our lives. 

Internet and social media have speeded up spreading of images, giving us a different perception of the world. 

- We're all part of one big network

- But: who controls the network? 

Cindy Sherman

Take a look at this picture by Cindy Sherman. She creates self portraits that look like film stills. Here she has portrayed herself as a helpless woman in the big city. She's critisizing the male gaze. 

Assignment

Like Cindy Sherman, make a self portrait inspired on a film still. 

Try to recreate it as well as you possibly can. Say something about:

- Light, the angle of the camera and composition. 

Lost in translation

Very badly done

Criteria:

- Example of the filmstill and your picture

- How well you've recreated it

- What you say about the features light, camera angle and composition 

- Respecting the deadline: Friday March 29 23:59 submit through private message in teams