List of Lecture Dates
Lecture 1 - Introductory Overview of Lecture Programme - Richard / James - 10th October
Lecture 2 - Consumerism - Richard Miles - 17th October
Lecture 3 - Identity - James Beighton - 24th October
Lecture 4 - The Gaze & The Media - Helen Clarke - 31st October
Lecture 5 - Cities & Film - Helen Clarke - 7th November
Lecture 6 - Ethics - What is Good? - Richard Miles - 14th November
Lecture 7 - Globalisation & Sustainability - Richard Miles - 21st November
Lecture 8 - Censorship & Truth - James Beighton - 28th November
Lecture 9 - Subculture & Style - Helen Clarke - 5th December
Lecture 10 - What is Research? - Fred Bates - 12th December
Lecture 11 - What is Critical Analysis? - James Beighton - 9th January
Lecture 12 - Synthesis - Richard Miles - 16th January
Lecture 13 - COP 3 Introduction - Richard Miles - 24th April
Lecture 14 - Research Skills - Chris Graham - 1st May
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'Fish Story' by Alan Sekula
- Book about globalisation, sustainability and photography
- Calls himself a 'critical realist' - Marxist view
- Documenting changes in society
- Theoretical and philosophical investigation into what the sea means
- Gentrification: places that were once inhabited by the working classes and now they can't go there
GTA V
- Lots of the themes we'll learn about link to GTA
- Discussion about censorship related to games
- Notion of liquid identity - you can change how you present yourself to the rest of the world
- Consumption - people buy it. Fastest selling game. Culture phenomenon
- Different readings of the city and different stereotypes
- Shelby Welinder - objectification of women in GTA
Saatchi & Saatchi for Gallaher (1983) - Cigarettes Campaign
- Advertisement for Silk Cut cigarettes
- In 80s, tobacco couldn't be associated with glamour, sport, success in business, masculinity / femininity, 'advertisements should not seek to actively persuade people to start smoking'
- Smoking adverts were banned entirely in 2003
- All adverts worked around a visual metaphor
- Worked with purple silk
- Working with the connotations of the brand
- Attaching connotations of sexyness, silk bed sheets, coitus, etc
- 'Post-coital cigarette'
- Morbid desire for destruction
- How philosophy and theory can create interesting readings
L'Atelier Populaire
- Set up by students in May 1968 at the school of Fine Art in Paris
- Squatted in the art school, knocking out prints after prints
- Images were designed to crystallise the revolutionary consciousness
- Visual image of student revolution
- Not just a poster, it's a revolutionary tool
