Saturday, May 15, 2010

Post Modernism (groupwork)

Post Modernism is the most radical of the previous group presentations, by far. That is to say, post modernism removes the idea of confinement, of limited space and information and defies all possibilities.

My part of the presentation, for example, is a good exercise on proving the idea of modernism and post modernism. Take the "Birth of Venus" drawing exercise: the original work is a modern idea of how the birth of Venus came about. Once my group prompted the class to ask of their interpretation of the "Birth of Venus" did the original become post modern. One good example from the exercise was a classmate's (in her idea) lack of effort using text to display the "Birth of Venus" (all on her paper was "Birth of Venus" in type). Little did she know she had created a very constructive and post modern idea of an original piece. That was a turning point for the exercise as what my classmate had thought to be useless, became useful — she had created her own interpretation.

The direction of the post modern presentation as a whole was to illustrate to the class how we as society can make the most recent and current trend or item of interest and create such to make our own. The group presentation, I should say, hoped to illustrate that most everything we encounter can become unique.

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