Pipilotti Rist's video art- how can we link this to science and reason?
Still from 'Ever is Over All' (1997)
1. Define the 17th century 'Scientific Revolution', and say how it changed European thought and world view.
the scientific revolution was created by a series of changes in the structure of European thought. changes such like systematic doubt, empirical and sensory verification, the abstraction of human knowledge into separate sciences and the view that the world acting like a machine. these views of thinking started up in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and was one of the most influential to the popular mind. this was a technological change that still influences the modern mind.
2. Give examples of how we can we still see evidence of the 'Scientific Revolution' in the world today.
an example of these influential ways of thinking in the modern day would have to be the widely changing view of physics. it has always been a question to great minded scientist to continue Albert einstein theory of everything or a complete guide to the workings of the natural word. because of this we have crated particle collider able to detect the smallest types of matter like courts. this is a typical human trait influenced by the scientific revolution of systematic doubt and verification though senses.
3. From your research, do you think that the contemporary art world values art work
that uses new media/technology over traditional media?
i think with the progression speed of technologies enhancing and changing so radically, that the art world has realized that traditional media is just limiting artiest from new media. the art world is now understanding that a piece of art can be anything. the use of film and progection show how the art word has evolved with the progression of these new technologies.
4. How has Pipilotti Rist used new media/technology to enhance the audience's experience of her work.
in the work 'Ever is Over All' (1997) there are two images/films overlapping one another this technique is used to show the relation or create a relation to the two images, this is mainly traditionally used in montages of documenties or films. to use this effect in her work is to enhance the related theme to the viewer. thus creating two images that don't have any relevance to one another meaning together.
5. Comment on how the installation, sound and scale of 'Ever is Over All' (1997) could impact on the audience's experience of the work.
having the film installed to be viewed from the corner of two walls breaks apart the two images to show that they are separate from one another. this gives the idea to the viewer that there is two separate images being seen at the same time. but the overlapping of the two images confuses or sets across a deferring view of these two images are in fact related. the music that goes along side with the film sets off relaxed or seemingly out off body experience giving the effect to the viewer that this is no longer a film or piece of artwork but in retrospect a experience to be shared. in one point the music stops to make way for the sound of the window of the car smashing whilst the woman takes a swing at it with her flower. this gives the effect to the viewer that this is happening and shouldn't question the work for what it is.
6. Comment on the notion of 'reason' within the content of the video. Is the woman's behaviour reasonable or unreasonable?
i bellive there is no notion of reason at all to this work, making it abstract (it is what it is). the woman's behavior is shown to be normal or approved by. this is showing by the police officer walking past with a friendly smile of approval, this introduces comic tension to the film. so if you were to say if the woman's behavior is right or not one would have to consider its not real, as if its an alienated world she is in to relation to our own.
7. Comment on your 'reading' (understanding) of the work by discussion the aesthetic (look), experience and the ideologies (ideas, theories) of the work.
this work makes me wonder i don't know what about but for some reason the effect that is portraits to me is a sense of two combining forces of nature acting together to create something unnatural. making it seem abstract or unexplained.
hooker, r. (1996). the scientific revolution. retrieved 21 February, 2006 from: http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee?ENLIGHT/SCIREV .HTM
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