ART 80F Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Psychometrics, Heems, Eugenics
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Next saturday, dia de los muertos (nov 5, begins at 1:30pm at mah) The book of life animated movie showing (nov 5, 6pm) This notion of a multivocal, but authorless, narrative necessitates a radical rethinking of aesthetics, suggesting the possibility of an aesthetics of database. for mikhail bahktin, meaning is derived from dialogue, which is grounded in a social context. He adheres to the diea that social and aesthetic forms are produced under particular circumstances. Examples of multivocal, authorless narratives: forums, facebook debates". *many voices, none of them need be an author. Art interpretation issues: (art gallery) art objects placed next to each other also send their own message. Different audiences will take away different things, and who gets to see the piece also sends its own message. The principal question is this: how to design interfaces that will solicit direct and meaningful responses from inexperienced users without overdetermining the results.
