Do some quick research on semiotics. What is it? Who developed the theory. How is it used in our fields? Why is it important? How is this theory being used commercially (for lack of a better word) right now?
Be prepared to discuss why or why not this particular theory and methodology might be something you would work with in your professional life.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Week Five: In Class
Find, at least, five web sites that might help you answer your question.
Find one more thing that you didn't already know about your subject/question.
Write up one of your bibliographic entries so that I can check it and make sure that you are doing it correctly before you do too much work that turns out to be incorrect.
Find one more thing that you didn't already know about your subject/question.
Write up one of your bibliographic entries so that I can check it and make sure that you are doing it correctly before you do too much work that turns out to be incorrect.
Friday, June 26, 2009
Week Three: In Class
Since some of you have asked for examples. I thought I would join you with a question of my own.
I'm going to start with a broad question that encompasses my background and interests.
"Does fitness influence the fashion industry or does the the fashion influence the fitness industry?"
What I believe to be true. High-end fashion and high-performance fitness are not even talking to each other, but ....????
This question seems too broad to me - how about .....
"Does the fashion industry (high-end) influence the body type that we strive for through the fitness industry? or does the fitness industry set the trends and therefor the body types influence what fashion designers design?"
Let's start by looking at "Iconic" representation of both and see what we come up with.
Fashion/Chanel
current
http://www.chanel.com/fashion/8#8
http://www.chanel.com/fashion/8#8-spring-summer-2009-chanel-collection-look-45,12
historic
from: http://www.canpages.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/coco_chanel.jpg
Fitness
Current
picture of "first fitness super model" Monica Brant http://female.bodybuildbid.com/fitnessolympia/imgs/brant/brant4.jpg
Historic
http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_images_n300/0087-0507-2315-0407_vintage_antique_old_smiling_woman_pinup_in_a_yellow_swimsuit_with_white_towel_1940s.jpg
I'm going to start with a broad question that encompasses my background and interests.
"Does fitness influence the fashion industry or does the the fashion influence the fitness industry?"
What I believe to be true. High-end fashion and high-performance fitness are not even talking to each other, but ....????
This question seems too broad to me - how about .....
"Does the fashion industry (high-end) influence the body type that we strive for through the fitness industry? or does the fitness industry set the trends and therefor the body types influence what fashion designers design?"
Let's start by looking at "Iconic" representation of both and see what we come up with.
Fashion/Chanel
current
http://www.chanel.com/fashion/8#8
http://www.chanel.com/fashion/8#8-spring-summer-2009-chanel-collection-look-45,12
historic
from: http://www.canpages.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/coco_chanel.jpg
Fitness
Current
picture of "first fitness super model" Monica Brant http://female.bodybuildbid.com/fitnessolympia/imgs/brant/brant4.jpg
Historic
http://www.acclaimimages.com/_gallery/_images_n300/0087-0507-2315-0407_vintage_antique_old_smiling_woman_pinup_in_a_yellow_swimsuit_with_white_towel_1940s.jpg
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Week Three: Icons
Look at Byzantine Icons and look at Mickey Mouse. What do they have in common?
What about Evangeline Lilly and Lillie Langtry?
Find an iconic representation of your topic. (see post in week two for more details and instruction on evaluating the image.
This week look for five magazines or journals that might/do have information on your topic. More importantly I want you to find out one new thing that you did not already know about your topic. We will come back to class and discuss for the fourth hour.
What about Evangeline Lilly and Lillie Langtry?
Find an iconic representation of your topic. (see post in week two for more details and instruction on evaluating the image.
This week look for five magazines or journals that might/do have information on your topic. More importantly I want you to find out one new thing that you did not already know about your topic. We will come back to class and discuss for the fourth hour.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Week Two: In-class assignment
What is your topic?
What is your question?
(What is the air speed velocity of a laden swallow?)
Find an "iconic" image that represents your topic. Evaluate this image based on Panofsky's "Strata of Meaning"
1. Primary or Natural Subject Matter
2.Secondary or Conventional subject matter
3.Intrinsic Meaning or Content
List the titles of five books you think might help you with your research and why you think they might help?
What is your question?
(What is the air speed velocity of a laden swallow?)
Find an "iconic" image that represents your topic. Evaluate this image based on Panofsky's "Strata of Meaning"
1. Primary or Natural Subject Matter
2.Secondary or Conventional subject matter
3.Intrinsic Meaning or Content
List the titles of five books you think might help you with your research and why you think they might help?
Week Two: Iconography
i⋅co⋅nog⋅ra⋅phy
/ˌaɪkəˈnɒgrəfi/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ahy-kuh-nog-ruh-fee] Show IPA
–noun, plural -phies.
1. symbolic representation, esp. the conventional meanings attached to an image or images.
2. subject matter in the visual arts, esp. with reference to the conventions regarding the treatment of a subject in artistic representation.
3. the study or analysis of subject matter and its meaning in the visual arts; iconology.
4. a representation or a group of representations of a person, place, or thing, as a portrait or a collection of portraits.
Origin:
1620–30; < ML īconographia < Gk eikonographía. See icono-, -graphy
Related forms:
i⋅con⋅o⋅graph /aɪˈkɒnəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [ahy-kon-uh-graf, -grahf] Show IPA , noun
i⋅co⋅nog⋅ra⋅pher, noun
from: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/iconography
What is Art Iconography
Class please read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconography
excerpt:
Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images. The word iconography literally means "image writing", and comes from the Greek εικον (image) and γραφειν (to write). A secondary meaning is the painting of icons in the Byzantine and Orthodox Christian tradition. The term is also used in many academic fields other than art history, for example semiotics and media studies, and in general usage, for the content of images, the typical depiction in images of a subject, and related senses. Sometimes distinctions have been made between Iconology and Iconography, although the definitions and so the distinction made varies.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Week One continued: The Original Question
Original
⋅rig⋅i⋅nal
/əˈrɪdʒənl/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [uh-rij-uh-nl] Show IPA
–adjective
1. belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
2. new; fresh; inventive; novel: an original way of advertising.
3. arising or proceeding independently of anything else: an original view of history.
4. capable of or given to thinking or acting in an independent, creative, or individual manner: an original thinker.
5. created, undertaken, or presented for the first time: to give the original performance of a string quartet.
6. being something from which a copy, a translation, or the like is made: The original document is in Washington.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/original
A research paper on Pixar is NOT original unless you ask something that hasn't been asked before. Every semester I challenge students to come up with something I haven't had to sit through already. After 13 years of this - it is more of a challenge than you might realize. Can you do it? Can you come up with an original question on a topic that is uniquely you that the Professor hasn't heard before?? What are some examples of original questions? One student set out to find out for his thesis if the Roman Coliseum would have had a roof? Not totally original but original to his work and no other student has used that question before or since. A graphic design student set out to find out about Dada's influence on graphitti - it took awhile to get to that question, but he started with a subject a lot of students considered and found an original question to research that wasn't overdone. Start thinking this week about your research subject and we'll discuss next week.
⋅rig⋅i⋅nal
/əˈrɪdʒənl/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [uh-rij-uh-nl] Show IPA
–adjective
1. belonging or pertaining to the origin or beginning of something, or to a thing at its beginning: The book still has its original binding.
2. new; fresh; inventive; novel: an original way of advertising.
3. arising or proceeding independently of anything else: an original view of history.
4. capable of or given to thinking or acting in an independent, creative, or individual manner: an original thinker.
5. created, undertaken, or presented for the first time: to give the original performance of a string quartet.
6. being something from which a copy, a translation, or the like is made: The original document is in Washington.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/original
A research paper on Pixar is NOT original unless you ask something that hasn't been asked before. Every semester I challenge students to come up with something I haven't had to sit through already. After 13 years of this - it is more of a challenge than you might realize. Can you do it? Can you come up with an original question on a topic that is uniquely you that the Professor hasn't heard before?? What are some examples of original questions? One student set out to find out for his thesis if the Roman Coliseum would have had a roof? Not totally original but original to his work and no other student has used that question before or since. A graphic design student set out to find out about Dada's influence on graphitti - it took awhile to get to that question, but he started with a subject a lot of students considered and found an original question to research that wasn't overdone. Start thinking this week about your research subject and we'll discuss next week.
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