MMEDIA 1A03 Lecture 4: Week 4 Lecture - September 26, 2017
21 Sep 2018
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Guest speaker: david harris smith, associate professor, dept of cmst and multimedia & dr. Hossein taghinesaud, soscip postdoctoral fellow virtual cities environment. Lion man of the hohlenstein - stadel (c. 30 000 years ago) - implications for culture. Carved of mammoth tusks, discovered in a cave and was reassembled. A time when neanderthals and humans existed together, bred, had children together. Study of how the human mind has developed in this pre-historical time frame. Creates a fictional creation (active imagination) represents that whoever made this was capable of abstract thought, to be able to imagine and fashion into material that does not exist. The idea that you can invent, instantiate that into material logic and pass that thought, from generation to generation. Culture, art and science: the use of material culture, metaphorical and analogical thought, the accumulation of knowledge through time. People think that science is confronted through observations.
