Travis and Heidegger

December 6th, 2010

Critical investigation of Heidegger’s “Image of the World” / “The Age of the World Picture.” Travis wanted to quit, but Tom Levine moved him to another complex text by Erwin Panofsky entitled “Perspective as Symbolic Form.” Travis then used his water coloring skills to paint on top of Heidegger’s printed essay. He kept in mind Heidegger’s phenomenology of “The process of letting things manifest themselves.” This relating to the usage of layering, whether in photoshop or in “thinking”. “Thinking as subjectivity and objectivity colliding with one another to create a new experience.” Travis might continue to do watercolor work in combination with digital layering. Needs interaction and also needs to be approachable.

Critique:
Craig Kalpakjian: Meg admitted to not knowing the essay. Do you want to inform everyone about the essay? Is it a process specifically to you?

Timothy Druckrey: To think that sensing and knowing, subjectivity and objectivity being opposites of one another is bullshit. Heidegger is witnessing the sciences robbing our perception of the world. Technological machinery distancing ourselves from being, the “authentic” times. The modern world is distorting his perception of existing. The crisis of the technological was upsetting the world’s image. Cultural stress, social stress. Reference to cubism, relativity, representation. Heidegger said in an interview that was published after his death, he was asked : “What comes to replace philosophy?” Heidegger: “Cybernetics”. He had a huge discomfort of the machine of taking over. All during this time, Dadas gave up making images. Surrealists and Heidegger wasn’t unaware about this.

Recommendations:
Auguest Sander
Man Ray
Eric Coleman
“Art and Politics in the Weimar Period” by John Willett
“Modernism” by Peter Gay