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Freedom Of Interpretation, Georgi Ivanov
Freedom Of Interpretation, Georgi Ivanov
Theses and Dissertations
The photographic series Ideal Cities that I started in 2011 is inspired by the conflict between my idea of the “west” and my evolving experience in the United States. What struck me was the popularity of what I see as model experience – a spatial experience controlled by the Spectacle. In the terms of the Situationist International and its most prominent figure Guy Debord, the Spectacle is the collapse of reality into the streams of images, products and activities sanctioned by centralized monopolist business or state bureaucracy. Thus, personal experience is replaced with preconceived notions, which control the way people …
Dismemory: On History, The Southern Imaginary, And Abusing The Visual Record, Matthew Pendleton Shelton
Dismemory: On History, The Southern Imaginary, And Abusing The Visual Record, Matthew Pendleton Shelton
Theses and Dissertations
Using the literary device of a fictional interview between the artist and a sympathetic intellectual, I explore concepts relating to subjectivity, pedagogy, memory, “Southernness,” whiteness, the deceptive nature of images, social justice, and 20th century art as they relate to a contemporary artistic practice.