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Marten Barkman, Remote Sensibility: Binocular Sensing
Marten Barkman’s presentation was very motivating and I enjoyed the presentation. His ideology of nature and its relationship to our society is very motivating. During the beginning of his presentation, Barkman did a introduction of what he was going to say and what his interests are. As his screening begins, a documentary video was suppose to be played. However, the whole process went through a little technical troubleshooting which may have shorten amount of time for his show. In the documentary, there were many stereostropic images based on landscapes. The background music was also very pleasing to hear. Two questions were raised during the documentary which left a strong impression in my mind through the whole presentation. What is Human Nature? What is our relationship with Nature?
What is our relationship with nature was one of the main theme Marten Barkman brought up. This theme encouraged me to extend my thoughts about human vs. nature. During the presentation, he showed many photos that he took during his stay in Yukon. A lot of photos were landscapes and nature related objects (ex. bugs, flowers, …etc). The photos were visually beautiful and gave me a very calming feel. Moreover, I thought the photos had a bit of both industrial feel to it as well. As he went on with his slideshow, an image of a laundry bottle, having the background photo on it, suddenly popped up. I was surprised and felt funny because I did not expect the image would appear. Then, Barkman went on and explained what was this about. I also understand more about the relationship between nature and human nature.
After his presentation was finished, I reviewed the notes that that I took during the screening. His ideas and thoughts were very clear to me. As I think more about it, the more stronger I felt that I agree with his idea about how our current industry uses the nature as part of their plan to attract consumers. In other words, I realized how a picture of nature can be a way for manufacturers to promote their products. Marten Barkman answers his question, that nature is part of human nature. For example, when we go to markets or other stores to buy products, the printed images on some packages have photos of nature and consumers would believe that the product would be safe. I would also choose nice photographs over other plain designed package because the products with photos look nice and more believeable. Barkman also said landscape can be used as a manufacture space. This also reminded me how meaningful a two dimensional image can be. We all come from land, and the nature is part of human nature. Overall, I enjoyed his presentation since he had left something for me to think about. It had been successful to me because I also learned about professional artists thoughts at the same time. However, due to the limited amount of time, he rushed to finished his presentation, I wish he could have explained more about this topic.
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