During the first PPP (Personal and Professional Practice) session, with Penny Lee. She gave an introduction to the class about her and what she did etc. She explained during her years of travelling aboard and working with various people/artist/designers from other parts of the world, helped her grow in the profession she is now in. Penny repetitively informed to the class how she kept pushing herself to do more in her life, thus developing her skills in Graphic Design. Now because of this experience, she has expanded her knowledge and created new techniques in Graphic Design. Therefore, making her more varied within producing her work. This has been inspiring as this talk made me think how I could do those type of things that Penny has experience, by boarding my knowledge of the world of Graphic Design.
Penny also recommended the class to listen to a radio podcast called, "The John Peel Lecture (2015 with Brian Eno)". In this lecture it analyses the way we see art culture in the world, Brian Eno aims to presents how individuals in society and organisations engross within this specific culture. He does this by making his audience and listeners relate to artists, broadcasters, gallerists, promotors, DJs, managers, lawyers and fans etc. These figures in the world symbiotically link parts of a single huge structure that we call Culture. He mostly outlines some of his knowledge on this uncertain conservation, thus investigating the mutual connection rapport between the between the elements and components that combine to create our culture today, and define how cultural processes creates a balance for essential and the significants on todays society.
Brian Eno, is a famous English musician, composer, record producer, singer and visual artist. He is known to be one main developer of ambient music. Eno is one of these influential people, and displays how he confront problems of the world. He begins the podcast with "My way of working is always to not set a goal and reach it. But to see what I can do and what I can do anyways. Its a different way round of doing it I think". When he follows on when he was writing a strange sentence about the creative industries and he thought, industries is not the right word for what he is doing. A genesis of that term of this understanding way, is that there are people working in the creative industry that are always desperate to get money from the Government. They try to convince the Government and talk them they're an industry. If you are part of an industry it means you are part of the economic frame work and ultimately express as a single number one or the number one jobs you had. Therefore Eno expresses this as calling this "the beginning and end of the Arts". These things can't be evaluated that way are not worth anything. Eno gives an example of an educational secretary, as she said that "It's a good idea that students don't need to learn about the arts and humanities because they don't offer good job aspects as the STEM subject. A STEM is interesting as it stands for: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, But the idea of things that its important. These centre STEMs leads to everything else which are important part of the economic mill. This is what makes Great Britain great and successful. However, compare to the subject, Art it is seen more as a luxury, thats why there are mixed attitudes of the Arts beginning an economic entity. Then Eno reference another persons ideas of the Arts, Nicky Morgen, the message which was important about the Arts, that its untamed, random and individualistic. There is nothing to improve of to encourage about the Arts, as many people think that the Arts is an unfettered individuals go to.
Then Eno wants to highlight the two questions he wants to answer which are: "Is Art a luxury? Is it only a luxury or does it do something for us? Or is there a way to create a situation of which the Arts to flourish? He emphasises that we need to rethink how we talk about culture in general, and what it does for us and what it actually is? Because there is a complete confusion about it, for example Eno did an experiment and puts us in his shoes, that if you talk to 20 scientist and asked what do you think science has done. You'll pretty much agree but with 20 versions of the answer. That its about understanding something about the world. In another similar situation if you talk to 20 artists and ask what does Art do? You'll probably get 15 different answers and a couple of repeats. Overall, we are all engaging the creative industry but the centre is a subject that no one of us has a clear idea about. What are we doing when we make Art or consuming it? Then Eno gives a definition on what Culture is, "Art is everything you don't have to do" meaning there are certain thing you have to do like live, eat etc. But you don't have to create a baked a sausage roll and so on. So everyone has a basic function that everyone has and animals which is Eating. But unlike all animals we do embedding and embellishment, we make food that we eat complex, complicated and create it to be a stylised active. We wear clothes, but we don't have to wear good labels ones like designer clothing: for example, Marc Jacobs, Chanel etc. We have clothes as an essential needs, but we stylise, experiment etc it. The same goes with Movement, you don't need to run, do the tango, dancing etc. So even though movement is a basic and automatic thing, we elaborate it into something an area of stylistic. So the basic activate is movement. What we like to do is stylise it in different ways and communicating is the same way. This because we has humans and we live in our own groups, we do more than communicating we write epic poems, pop songs, sympathise and advertising. We do additional stuff on top of communication. And all of those stuff has characteristics, which is highly stylised and is not randomly stylised. As we have a deep care or what we are doing i.e, dying hair, thats why us human invest a lot of their things on appearances. Its a fact that everyone doesn't dress randomly, they might think its stylisation but Eno wants to persuade them its that they are part of this broad definition of Art and they are using it without knowing. There are the things that people do which are part of Art: perfume, tattoo, graffiti, needle point, slang, vases, doodles, still life and boob job. These things are unnecessary, we can all live without it, but in fact we all engage with them. So the first question why it is important why we do it? Notice its not all of us wealthy people in terms of global wealth who are doing it, everyone is doing. Human group are spending much time and energy stylising. Others people stylisation of things. So the question is what is it for? Danny Hilliest asked what is the most interesting question, why do we like music? This is a mysterious question that you can imagine, why do we have preferences, different genres we prefer, which song is better than that song and so on. Like different preferences we have a very fine distinctions about things that we prefer, atheistic things. It doesn't have much function, especially with industries, we're all doing it and thinking it. So what are we doing?
Children is an interesting subject that Eno brought up during the podcast. When you watch children play, they are mostly playing a game called let's pretend. Like this stick can change you to a frog, but if you have that bottle top I can't fly anymore. Children playing is important because it demonstrates them learning, and if we don't let them play they don't develop well. This is the process of children climaxing. The meaning of lets pretend is lets imagine, a child's imagination is the central human trick, which is in a completely different scale of animals. Other animals have little imagination, we can change environment, scenery etc. To see if it works, thus brings us to experience empathy. The feeling what the world is like in somebody else's head. Children start this world building and they can do whatever they want to do. This exercising a great talent of imagination, thus become more human, where children grow out of being animals and transforming into humans as they spend lots of time imagining. The significants of Imagination is that young humans are imagining the world and making this into a learning process. In an alternative its creates a future, makes a bridge, football teams, designs, parties, Government, that everyone can imagine. So this is the point children learning is similar to adults learning Art. So we don't all stop playing we continue it but we do it through by Art. The reason for the list, is that we all want these things because they are all doing the same thing.
Eno tells the audience he read a book called "Mans rage of Chaos, Biology behaviour in the Arts. And he reads a quote out, "Art is exposer of tensions and problems of a false world, in order that man problem of the real world." Therefore if you go on further, the exposer of the job and freedom of a new world might recognise them in the real world. The idea of Art has a serious function in our lives, one of these that Eno has experience is when he was on a bus. He over heard these old ladies talking about a TV soap opera and during one of the episode, one of the characters turned out to be a lesbian. Because it was a soap opera they were able to talk about it naturally. But if it were someone connected to them if would be a different situation. Overall, they were able to discuss this piece of Art work, the issue of it so naturally. Meaning Art is creating a little or alternative world.
Novels have this creation of being in a different world, as they are filled with imagination. Which you can imagine yourself being effected dramatically. Charles Dickens stories were quite shocking and received empathy, as the higher class people where about to understand the lower class people situation in their world of working and for survival. The higher class people realise that the lower class had the same sort of feeling and emotions, this is a distinct social effect. Similarly, it builds a world that doesn't exist or imagine. By increasing the ability of the world, but it is also looking back to the way that you are in, compare to film and writing. The messages is being invited and you are able to learn something about it. For example that Eno gave to his audience, Hairstyles are one way or the other way. That you belong to a world where this particular hairstyle exist, this broadcast something which is receiving positions and thinking in a certain position, which therefore identifies yourself. This is what we call identification.
So Eno questions his audience, is what Art is doing for us? Is it giving us a chance to have feelings about things not dangerous. Art is a place where it offers a safe environment to have quite extreme and dangerous feelings and a reason you do that cosy or know that you can switch it off. Art is a simulator and offers a simulator worlds like playing a simulator game. Eno carries on this topic by referencing a book called "Keeping together by time", this book talks about the intense pleasure humans feel in the muscular coordination, i.e dancing, marching and so on. We're a lot of people who synchronise themselves. This is the same with the old ladies on the bus, synchronising living in a culture which is changing very quickly. Thinking a month in our life time, the amount of time changes in the 14th century which comes to terms. Eno explains how everyone has different experiences, cars, medicine, fashion and so on. Not everyone is experts in everything we need ways of being in sync and Eno believes what culture is doing, is part of the creative arts.
Eno defines Culture as a set of collective rituals, that we are all change in. Why the explanation, GMP, the most important thing all the people in the community has created culture and keeps us together. He might be correct important job, Where does Art come from? Painting, was Eno's period show went to watch, he saw 70 artists that he never heard of were very good and so much was going on. Some people or artists survive in history some don't which is very small percentage. The one reason why some artist go down in history because of the help of collectors, money, handlers and rent salons. These are places to advertise or display won, Galleries hold competitions against other Galleries and so on. They produce all these work that Eno calls them scenious (Talent of a whole community) and genious (one person).
British Pop culture scenarios has all sorts of talent and companies come altogether get something which is in the eco system. These are represented in levels which are higher and lower. It takes only one things in the eco system to make it all crumple. Thats why they are able to to bring it back by constantly rebalancing. Culture is like this, especially British musical culture is like this. So people have thought of new ideas which are articulated individually but is generated by communities. So it naturally celebrates individuals very keen on names.
Eno then begins his story as he describes how he did it in his way self made man. It was 11 years old, attending a catholic grammar school, then went to a few working places, made it to Art school which he explains that 5 years of it was absolutely invaluable time so he left, then went on to the dole. But Eno didn't want a job for live because he was scared that he would be trapped in a job and he had a goal of becoming an Artist for sure! Eno stayed in the dole and was doing odd jobs, until great fortune struck him by meeting Roxy music, he expresses how lucky he was. Then soon after other great fortune came as he met John Peel, who came to his shows and broadcasted it on the radio. A writer called Richard Williams wrote about them and it was a big piece of writing. Eno indicates how John Peel was his key figure in life as well as the NHS and Library service. Eno mentions how those things are significant institutions that had been place by people who idealistic socialisation of things.
Like the BBC radio and internet is a way of communicating and scholarships. These are forms of social engineering appealers and they representing a generous a future to find it time now. Now is a new area for resources and economic sacristy, as there is competition moving into an era of abundance and corporations. We're super productive and as we alternate. Even less connected to productions because of automatism which means humans are less necessary to must process. In a world of ultra fast change it really speeding up but somehow stay coherent. Eno believes we are going to be full artists than we are now.
The social side is the basic income and everyone should get a wage which will ultimately get rid of poverty for anyone who is homeless. Which tells our future, and makes an open source of movement where people producing ideas, keeping ideas and able to share it.
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