Delving the Space Between Image and Reality
This blog has been created as a forum for students of the Advanced Special Studies course taught by Manuel Pina. The point of the Simulacranaut is to posit, discuss, and evolve our ideas with regard to "what the image is." We are exploring the nature of the image, why the image was created in the first place, how it has iteratively evolved over the centuries, and what it has come to mean to us today. In our current epoch, the nature of the image has evolved to more extreme . Of course what is reality itself but an image in our mind? It is our job as artists to ask these questions, and see what meaning we gain in ourselves as we navigate the space between our question and the answer, between the image and reality.
As we explore this intermediary space, we will raise deeper and more disquieting questions, and come to our own personal conclusions about the nature of both the image and reality. These inquiries and revelations can be shared here so that fellow artists may benefit from, and elucidate further upon, any interesting threads of thought. As well our own minds, we must also take into account the global mind, which today is conveniently situated right in front of our faces, at our fingertips. Therefore it is also cool to post various points of interest we may find in our various adventures upon the internets.
Simply put, use this blog to post any thoughts, articles, websites, or videos that stimulates you in relation to art, the image, and the class. If it's a link or a video, try to include a short written description of your thoughts on the subject. Don't worry about being incendiary, controversial, or downright crazy. The moreso the better. Discuss, debate and comment. And remember...
