VCC101H5 Lecture 8: Lecture 8
12 Apr 2011
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Michael shamberg, guerilla television, raindance corporation, 1971 - image: media can represent and stand in the public sphere, politics can be integrated into the public sphere, manual for using video, for making your own media. Tvtv, four more years - image: showing how to use the camera, a way for talking back to the mainstream media outlets. Society of the spectacle: guy debord (1967, situationist thinker, visual representations dominate spectacles to unify and separate, concerned with consumer images and how they dominated western culture. In societies where modern conditions of production prevail. All of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. In the image the object takes on the photo (marlboro) Concern about mass media - when the commodity has attained the total occupation of social life, not only is the relation to the commodity visible, but it is all one sees.
