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2018-03-30T16:14:33Z

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==The Things We Forget==

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Today it is super easy to take pictures and upload them anywhere you are to the internet. Nearly everyone has a smartphone. You can literally take thousands of pictures and just delete the ones you don't like in seconds. Often you end up sharing the ones you like the most with the whole world by posting them on a social media website.

About six months ago I started taking pictures with an old analog camera. I almost forgot to let them get developed, but ended up with a pretty interesting result. While you can just decide on the spot, which pictures are total garbage with a digital device, you cannot say if a picture turned out the way you wanted with an old camera that uses a photographic film. So I decided to post all my pictures, even the ones that didn't turn out that well, to social media and see how people would react.
Usually, when you post a picture, you want it to be a really good one. One where you would think other people would like it too. But most of the time those pictures are really staged and took hundreds of attempts to really be the way the person wanted it to be. With analog photography you basically only have one attempt to take a good picture and not ruin a spot on the film where a better picture could have been. But because of that I think those pictures are the most authentic ones and people tend to forget that.

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2018-03-30T16:13:39Z

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2018-03-30T16:10:26Z

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GMU:AUTHENTICITY PLEASE

2018-03-30T14:59:26Z

JSR:

Lecturer: [https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/Jörg_Brinkmann Jörg Brinkmann] 
Credits: 6 ECTS, 4 SWS 
Date: Thursdays 17:00-20:30 
Venue: Performance Platform, Digital Bauhaus Lab (Room 001) 
First meeting: Thursday, October 12th 2017, 17:00 

 

We live in weird times, where Internet memes could start a Third World War, where the Internet offers the hope of transcultural communication and at the same time creates an uncontrollable chaos of shitstorms and cyberbullying that makes it seem like we are
thrown ‘back into the future’ of the digital Middle Ages.

How do we define authenticity and sincerity in times of fake news and post-truth politics? When laptops and smartphones become an important part of self-fulfillment and identity, when everybody can be a ‘news’ reporter, who can you believe to be sincere?

This course asks the recurring, ever haunting question of what is authentic. Has the search for it always been a deceptive road? How real does authenticity need to be today?

We will investigate, question and challenge modern and historical concepts related to the topic and create performative works that can be presented in the form of live performances, video works or installations. The course supports and excercises independent,
self-motivated work. Together, we will create an environment in which students can produce and discuss their own subjects related to the matter.

'''CRITERIA FOR PASSING''' 
In order to successfully participate you will have to develop and document your own project that can be in the form of a performance, video work or installation for example. Also, regularly attend to the sessions and participation is mandatory.

'''LANGUAGE''' 
The course will be in English, unless all participants are speaking German.

'''APPLICATION''' 
Please send a motivation letter before October 10th, 2017 to [mailto:joerg.brinkmann@uni-weimar.de joerg.brinkmann@uni-weimar.de]

Subject: AUTHENTICITY PLEASE

Content:
* Your motivation to join the course
* If you have a portfolio, webpage or any links or PDFs of your own projects, please attach them. It doesn't have to relate to the class
* Name, Surname
* program and semester (Studienprogramm und Fachsemester)
* matriculation number (Matrikelnummer)

'''PROJECTS''' 
*[[/Paloma Llambias|Paloma Llambias - Her and the Papers]]
*[[/Marie Ebel|Marie Ebel - Plural Identities]]
*[[/Forat Elalfy|Forat Elalfy - Pop that air]]
*[[/Suriñe G.-Pozuelo Iglesias|Suriñe G.-Pozuelo Iglesias - Rubatosis]]
*[[/Jinghui Gao|Jinghui Gao - One Day]]
*[[/Ruo-Jin Yen|Ruo-Jin Yen - The Lasting Care]]
*[[/Juliane-S. Rohde|Juliane-S. Rohde -The Things We Forget]]