Friday, 4 May 2012

Saturday, 24 March 2012

cts seminar - panopticism.

Key points from lecture;-psychological torture/ experimentation?

-Panopticism - JEREMY BETHAM 1791.
                     - Physiological effect of the building is to include the idea that you are being watched, and therefore you behave in a way as if you were being watched.
                     - most loony asylum use the panopticism as architectural reference.

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Key features to make the panopticon work.
                     - isolation - Your mind starts messing with itself
                                     - You have no other point of referance.

                     - Incisability/visability - the person must think that they are in view, however the person doing the viewing must never be viewed  - the person doing the viewing is never truely visable but always reminded that he is around.
                     - Light, bright, airy spaces.

                     - Productivity - the panopticon forces being to work harder, learn faster, get better quicker or inform peoples behaviours efficiently.


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Docile body.  [a docile body is defined by Michel Foucault -
"one that may be subjected, used, transformed, and improved. and that this docile body can only be achieved through strict regiment of disciplinary acts"]
              - More productive
                     - Obidient
                     - Self regulate - self train

Docile bodies are produced by a disciplinary society.

Physical control -----> mental control.

POWER - Foucault says; 'theres no power without resistance.'
'Power is a relationship between people'
[Person A <-----> person B] - a relationship that works in both ways
                                               - Authority over resistance.


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Examples of PANOPTICISM in the 21st century.


- CCTV - Load of visual reminders that you are being recorded even though most of them are not in operation.
- OPEN PLAN OFFICE - The though of your manager being able to see what you're doing or walk past at any time makes you more productive.
- SOCIAL NETWORKING - you are constantly visible to the world.
- ADVERTS AND MEDIA - perfect bodies, perfect lives are constantly being thrown at us, how to live our lives, makes people think on a different way and act upon it by buying the product.

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Salicine Crystals - andy underwood

This colourful illustration is a polarised light photomicrograph of a most interesting chemical called Salicine. In other words it is a highly magnified image (enlarged about two hundred times) taken with the aid of a special microscope technique that uses the natural refraction of these crystals to produce a pattern of rainbow colours.





diamond - geometric shapes - lucas guzman

Originally modelled for a diamond collection film for Rodrigo Otazu and Gassan Diamonds, these diamonds have really useful to me on every jewelry design. they were modelled from scratch, from 2D drawings, modelling with the shape spline from Max. I had to learn how in reality the diamonds become so bright, shiny and how they generate all these shapes inside of it. The cone shape on the back of all of them warranties the free bouncing of lightning, and that's how a diamond shines!