Towards the beginning of lecture, Professor Fulbeck kept referring to a question, which appeared to be the theme throughout the entirety of the lecture. He kept on returning to the question, "How do we allocate meaning?” Tied to this question was the question of "how does something perforate our consciousness?” Fulbeck then went on to explain how the purpose of art is to “explore and comment on culture”, whether through taking images, changing them, or probing them with a critical eye (including mocking and parodying them). I personally enjoyed the way that he preceded in furthering this point, by showing a flurry of quickly flashing images that, in they’re respective time periods, were (or are) the central focus of the media’s attention. In doing so, while randomly calling on people to identify the images and what they stand for, this quick paced activity seemed to be making a connection between how and why different pieces emerge as meaningful. This process began revealing the ties between socially relevant figures / issues, and Images. Just as these images held come cultural relevance to the students in the lecture hall, and triggered different affiliations, varying types of art forms (photography, as were the pieces shown in lecture, being one of many forms of art) trigger different reactions based on the cultural context. In a nutshell, that is what I took away from the introductory lecture.
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