Task Two:Reflecting
- What are the differences and similarities between what you expected to notice and what you recorded?
As my prompt said, I record pictures that include books, shelves, chairs, people’s movement. But I also record some people play chess in my pics, which I feel a little bit wired. Because in China, people who go to the library is only for study. They need a place that quite to focus on what they need to focus on. So when I see some people go to the library for having fun, it makes me think about Library is also a place for relaxing. And the numbers and letters in the corner. I know I will see something letters and number on the books, but I can observe more numbers and letters in the corner, that other people can’t notice.
- From watching your pair’s media and talking to them, how do you think their way of collecting with media differs from yours?
Jessie’ work
My Work
When I saw Jessie’s works, the ways she took those pictures are more like a photography, the shapes, lights and the compositions of whole works are more professional. She said sometimes it will limit her thinking of noticing stuff. Comparing my pictures, there are more optional, I just took the pictures where I put eyes on. I do not only notice the things I expect to the thing, but also the things really pop up my eyes. I guess Jessie not only noticing things, she also tries to collect those things in beautiful ways.
- How has making this work led you to understand key ideas about noticing in relation to readings, exhibition, discussion?
In Bogost’s reading, there is one sentence said, “the photography has long been understood as a ‘way of looking’”, I am thinking from both my and Jessie’s noting, we saw the differences in our familiar place, and it allows to think and noticing more about the things that we miss before. In Pounds ‘exhibition, he “retaking” those pictures from the internet, and I did “retaking “pictures from Jessie. It makes me think about the way of noticing and how do we notice things. Also, from week 4’s reading, it talks about that the audiences can in some way like co-creators to define a meaning of a documentary or film or picture. Which exactly much what I’ve done. I didn’t know anything about the state library, so we I go there to collect media, I am the creator of my media. Although Jessie familiar with this library, when she saw my media, the way of collecting those media, she will re-creator those media pieces, and think, notice the stuff in my pictures. So we can notice different things although in one particular picture. Through re see through pictures and talks to Jessie, according to the reading, we can easily build the connection between them. As reading said, “Shore’s images are deflationary not because their subject is subordinate but because their composition underscores unseen things and relations”. When I noticing things, I do not just observe things, I have interested the unseen things and the relations behind the media.
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