IN CLASS: Jan 23, 2012
DISCUSSION OF FREUDS UNCANNY (1:30pm-2.15pm)
The big questions/the big map
- Why is the notion of uncanny important to us as artists?
- Why read Freud?
Topics from the article:
- language
- Hoffman’s sand man
- the eye and the male organ (p. 8, left, bottom)
- automata, the uncanny valley (p. 7 left)
- the double (p. 10, right, middle)
- repetition: groundhog day (p. 11, left, top)
- repetition: coincidence (p. 11, left, bottom)
- repetition: neurosis (p. 11, right bottom)
- the evil eye (pp. 12, right, middle)
- the omnipotence of thought
- epilepsy and disease (p. 14, right, bottom)
- imagination meeting reality (p. 15, left)
- surmounted feelings (p. 15, left and p. 17 left)
ASSIGNMENT SHOW AND TELL (two miniatures) (2.15pm-3pm)
LASER CUTTER DEMONSTRATION (3pm-3:45pm)
LECTURE BY SCOTT DRAVES (4pm-5pm)