CLASS 5 • Surveillant Pleasures • Chapter 4 in CTRL[Space]
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SCREENINGS Jenni Cam (Note that it's no longer active) Merry Alpern: Shopping (pictured at left) Public Desktop, Jonah Brucker-Cohen David Crawford, Stop Motion Studies |
TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES: Students will use the TrackThemColors XTRA to grab live frames to a Director animation. See HANDOUT: Grabbing a video frame as a cast member. Discussion questions: 1) What was JenniCam? What artifacts are available today from the project? See overview: http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/12/10/jenni.cam.reut/ 2) Who was the primary audience for JenniCam? Were there rules for viewing or for taping? 3) How does Freud define exhibitionism? p.229 4) What is Burgin's point about "windows" and how it privileges or does not privilege a particular point of view? p.230 5) Who was DW Winnicott? How does his theory of how an infant gazes upon its mother different from that of Lacan's? Link to Lacan's mirror-stage defined. 6) What is a "transitional object?" p.231 7) What
is DW Winnicott's theory of play? How does Burgin relate this to his
interpretation of the Jennifer 8) Do you agree or disagree---Did Jennifer Ringley produce Jenni as a transitional object? Does Burgin agree? p.235 |
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