For the “ Get Out of Your Media Polluted Brain Exercise”, we were given verbal prompts for each square, and had to draw or write responses in return. The first square on the left has various abstract shapes drawn on them. Some of these are geometric, while there is also one curved line and a border on the top that is colored in. It is hard to tell what these shapes are supposed to represent by just looking at them. The square on the top right is words describing some sort of an accident or bad incident that occurred. The phrases are short and give certain information about the story without too many details. The bottom left picture is of a bottle of medicine with a needle extracting the liquid it is holding, and it also has some pills next to it. This is the first definitely representational drawing, because the prompt was to draw “medicine”. The last square, the one to the bottom right is words that we used to describe shapes that were drawn. The bottom two squares in particular show how the media and society affect how we represent things. Most objects are standardized so they all represent the same thing to a variety of people. The exercise was designed to make us draw/ write our first thoughts, so without the ability to think about our tasks and come up with creative solutions, most of us used objects that were familiar to us because they were the first things that we thought about. The juxtaposition of the top two boxes and the bottom two are interesting. The top two are more abstract interpretations of the assignment, while the other two are more concrete and representational. According to Lasn, we are all in a cult known as our society. We are programmed to think similarly, and are constantly fed an enormous amount of information, which eventually leads to overload. Because of all of this information that is present in our lives, we all start to think similarly, especially in terms of material objects. Objects are standardized, so that everyone knows that a bottle with pills in it most likely represents medicine, or that a U- shaped item looks like a horseshoe. However, I believe that artists have the ability of looking and interpreting things differently than most people do.
Lasn, Kalle. Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America. New York: Eagle Brook, 1999
Ekta Shah
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For the “ Get Out of Your Media Polluted Brain Exercise”, we were given verbal prompts for each square, and had to draw or write responses in return. The first square on the left has various abstract shapes drawn on them. Some of these are geometric, while there is also one curved line and a border on the top that is colored in. It is hard to tell what these shapes are supposed to represent by just looking at them. The square on the top right is words describing some sort of an accident or bad incident that occurred. The phrases are short and give certain information about the story without too many details. The bottom left picture is of a bottle of medicine with a needle extracting the liquid it is holding, and it also has some pills next to it. This is the first definitely representational drawing, because the prompt was to draw “medicine”. The last square, the one to the bottom right is words that we used to describe shapes that were drawn. The bottom two squares in particular show how the media and society affect how we represent things. Most objects are standardized so they all represent the same thing to a variety of people. The exercise was designed to make us draw/ write our first thoughts, so without the ability to think about our tasks and come up with creative solutions, most of us used objects that were familiar to us because they were the first things that we thought about. The juxtaposition of the top two boxes and the bottom two are interesting. The top two are more abstract interpretations of the assignment, while the other two are more concrete and representational.
According to Lasn, we are all in a cult known as our society. We are programmed to think similarly, and are constantly fed an enormous amount of information, which eventually leads to overload. Because of all of this information that is present in our lives, we all start to think similarly, especially in terms of material objects. Objects are standardized, so that everyone knows that a bottle with pills in it most likely represents medicine, or that a U- shaped item looks like a horseshoe. However, I believe that artists have the ability of looking and interpreting things differently than most people do.
Lasn, Kalle. Culture Jam: The Uncooling of America. New York: Eagle Brook, 1999