Download File - OCR Media Conference 2016

Being Text
Not a pipe
Blackstar v Everything
Not a pop star
Discuss
Theory
(Lyotard) Postmodern Condition
(Baudrillard) simulation, hyper-reality
Death of grand narratives
Relativism
Bricolage
Irony
Pick and mix
Remix, parody, pastiche
Postmodernism
EG - Baudrillard’s hyper-real?
neither dream nor reality but simulacrum –
fetishised reality
Idea - Postmodern Modalities ?
Bric a Brac x 3
(1) Hunger Games (Mockinjay): BIG MEDIA example | Postmodern Media
about PM media – or a modernist text about postmodern media – paradox?
The Hunger Games trilogy addresses media saturation, reality TV … and
ideology. At the beginning of the triology, Katniss was merely aware of the
media surrounding her, but now she is learning how to manipulate them. It
takes time, however; she lets her team dress her up and write her lines, and
they do not get a true response until she’s out in the middle of a real-life attack
from the Capitol. This is a satirical response to another important element of
Media Studies – celebrity culture.
Lydia Kendall (GCSE Media student) in Media Magazine, April 2015: 34-35
(2) TRANSMEDIA PRACTICES: PAROD, PASTICHE, REMIX: Copyright User
Portal
(3) TRANSMEDIA EVENTS / EXCHANGES – DUAL ADAPTATION, TEAR
GAS MEDIA – Anna Feigenbaum
The Postmodern Explained to Students
Pedagogy
Curation
Porous Expertise
Porous Expertise
Textual bric a brac at the “theory shack”
Model (A) – teacher brings theory, students bring
media.
Model (B) – teacher brings one case study, students
bring others to contrast.
Working with Model (B) here
Being Text (is and remains)
“New ways ever free”:
…. in the countless figures of openess that traverse the whole. a multiplicity of
influences = the transgeneric and the transborder. Bowie is.
From stardust to Blackstar to the various forms of “black suns” his characters inhabit,
Bowie’s œuvre is an exploration of atmospheres, a confluence of literary and artistic
discourses, a memory and an anticipation of history, a neverending odyssey ceaselessly
opening on vistas that involve art, redefinitions of gender and genre, and discourses on
the human and the post-human.
Bowie remains.
It is what “remains” of Bowie that we wish to explore, in its various artistic, literary,
sociological and historical manifestations—all testify to the fact that his œuvre is open
to a wide variety of theoretical approaches (aesthetics, musicology, gender and queer
studies, cultural studies, philosophy, semiotics, etc.), that it is an œuvre whose
identity, like that of its creator, is characterized by fluidity, movement and an ongoing
quest.
Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud et al (2016) http://davidbowieconference.org/
Being Text (David Bowie is)
“His death was no different from his life — a work of Art,” said
Tony Visconti
…. this moves us towards the central paradox, that of oxymoronic
authenticity, in which every invention, every appropriation becomes
somehow a marker of even greater integrity. In this sense the figure of
Bowie transcends Soussloff’s analysis of the figure of the artist. His
simultaneous presence and absence were manifested in the 2013 V&A
show, in which he had a curatorial hand (re-inscribing his own story),
called, significantly: David Bowie is. Paul Morley (who gave the show its
title) said at the time: “There was no single entity named David Bowie
coordinating or influencing proceedings, but somehow he made his
presence felt – Readman, 2016, JMP editorial 17.1
(Eisenman) House 6
Blackstar v House 6
1975 so ‘classic’ historical eg, use Dismaland or other for contemporary
Dislocation of the virtual and the real.
Architecture still provides shelter but dislocates its own meaning.
At once present and absent.
The link between architecture and shelter is called into question.
Pillars and columns within dining area – inside / outside.
Unpredictable, different. Function can’t be predicted.
Blackstar vs … your bric a brac
Taking Blackstar as a ‘set text’, share ideas and decide on
3 bits of textual bric a brac you’d choose, as follows –
•CLASSIC FROM THE PM CANON (historical)
•CONTEMPORARY ‘BOUND’ TEXT (anything goes) –
mass media / known entity
•CURRENT EVENT / PRACTICE / EXCHANGE – from
the lifeworld.
or … it’s just an album?
Anyway, thanks for taking part ….
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