The Place: Utopia
5) Testing
In the course of this project I have ventured myself with the cause, meaning and the role of utopia concept for the humanity. During my research I came up with a very interesting article entitled as “The Principle of hope” by Bloch. Inspired by the concise meaning and cause of utopia through this title, I made my own visions of utopia.
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An ecologic & humanistic utopia (see ecological humanities). This type of utopia is called Ecotopia and it promotes a sustainable living in harmony with nature, it embraces technology yet selectively, encourages creativity, lack of hierarchy in communities to boost individual decision making and mainly uses a constructive consensus rather than voting.
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Human rights utopia: Under the knowledge that utopias by definition will never be located anywhere or the knowledge that happiness comes from a blend of awareness of present situation an active hope of bettering what affords to be bettered. The Internet is simply the medium to accompany us in this quest, rather than the purpose itself!
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“A reinterpretation of 20th century art from cubism and the historical avant-garde movements to the present by questioning the very notion of modernity and the established relationship between art and utopia.” (Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA)(2004 June)Art & utopia: action restricted, retrieved on 16/04/07 from http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/eventos/exposiciones/docs/docarteutopiaeng.pdf )
Utopia stimulated the imagination of various artists in painting, photography like Picasso, Dali,
Walker Evans. Surrealism could be closely related to utopia, flavoring it with abstract and beyond logic norms and forms and thus infusing it with a more dramatic effect.
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This is a visual outcome of how I perceive utopia. Yet we perceive the world in a different way. It is this very way, the most interesting part of this project: To share thoughts freely on the World Wide Web!
3 comments:
Hey,
I really like your take on Utopia, its unique and the way you have arranged your visuals like a montage is clever.
Have you thought about studying Internet uptopia with regards to social networking? such as making friends, group collaboration etc.?
Its cool, I like it!
This is a very interesting idea you have, I would like to know more about it actually!
cheers
Kaliope your blog is very interesting
and your photos excellent
I hope you make the changes you like to your blog soon
Miltos , Despoina
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