Media, Culture and Society

Media, Culture and Society

I recently got this book from the library because I believe it will help me understand the current society that we live in,  moreover help me understand the Marxist theory and how I could tie up social class within my final major project. 

Finally potentially something might derive from the book as a potential disobedient object.

An image below of what the front cover looks like.

Timeline

Timelines

Below I have posted two timelines, the first one is an overview of what I'll be doing during my first Term and the second one is of more detail to what I'll be doing each week up until the end of first Term.

Overview Timeline

Detailed Timeline

Experiments

Experimentation

Below are my experiments of mixed mediums.

Learning Curve

What I've Learnt

In recent weeks, I've been focusing my final major project in conjunction with projections and installations. 

Within the past 2-3 weeks I started to experiment with over head projections, digital projector and mixing the mediums with 3D visuals, after looking at recent outcomes I decided it is not right to start doing these mini experiments because they didn't give me a clear direction or a strategy to go with.

Nevertheless I'm not ruling out potentially using projections, or creating an installation, I just need to do more informative research to set up a strong question, in to why I'm doing my final major project? what's the purpose? and most importantly will my research potentially help in the future.

Finally going back to the poem I was looking at previously, 'London' by William Blake, I'm now going to focus my attention on London as one subject firstly, then try to find a disobedient object within London or possibly Britain from the past 30-50 years.

William Blakes London

Modernism

Anyone who knows about poetry should have a read of this modernist perspective of the poem, 'London', I like the interpretation, raises some interesting views.

Utopia

Utopia 

A very interesting documentary, really opens up your eyes to the fact that there are so many meanings behind the word,'Utopia'.

For my final major project I'm looking into the expansive meaning behind two words, 'Socialism' and 'Utopia', and I think this documentary really helped me think what route to go down, and I feel it has to be with the variation of social classes and the hierarchy that still lives on to this day and everywhere in the world.

Here's a link to see the trailer:

Utopia Documentary

Anish Kapoor

Anish Kapoor

I think this man is a genius, the things he does that is so simple yet so powerful. The reason why I like this guy's work is because he produces physical sculptures but yet are so visually clever, you can feel a certain emotion connecting you to his work. I've been looking at his work to come up with some inspiration.

Below I will post some of his work and a link to his website also so that you can see articles wrote about him, watch videos and etc.

Anish kapoor's Website

All work from his website http://anishkapoor.com/