"Reality as it exists actually." I think Baudrillard's turgid book makes a mess of this concept. NO ONE can get at "reality as it exists actually." That's been understood for centuries, and Plato tried to tell us the REAL exists in an ideal form, but that's hardly "actual." Since the beginning of human signification we have lived in a world shaped by our media and our signs. So are these wordls I'm typing "real"? And your film, somehow not real? Those are images of trees and fountains.
@textcavation Thanks for your comment. This is my first video artwork. As I said " Parks in Hong Kong have well manicured gardens. They represents as nature to the visitors. However, this is hyperreal. This is prepared experiences. These experiences can be reproduced. And the visitors always go into the prepared illusion and seldom notice." Prepared experiences is somehow not "real" as we expected.
@aikodream Ah. I see. :) It's a lovely art video. I had no idea the manicured parks were presented as "nature." My point is that even if we were to walk into a rainforest that no one had ever seen, we still wouldn't be accessing the "real," because we bring our already perpared mindsets to it. The "real" can't ever be accessed without the mediating influence of signs. So there has NEVER been a time when we experienced "reality as it actually exists."
@textcavation Are you a video artist?
aikodream 9 months ago
"Reality as it exists actually." I think Baudrillard's turgid book makes a mess of this concept. NO ONE can get at "reality as it exists actually." That's been understood for centuries, and Plato tried to tell us the REAL exists in an ideal form, but that's hardly "actual." Since the beginning of human signification we have lived in a world shaped by our media and our signs. So are these wordls I'm typing "real"? And your film, somehow not real? Those are images of trees and fountains.
textcavation 10 months ago
@textcavation Thanks for your comment. This is my first video artwork. As I said " Parks in Hong Kong have well manicured gardens. They represents as nature to the visitors. However, this is hyperreal. This is prepared experiences. These experiences can be reproduced. And the visitors always go into the prepared illusion and seldom notice." Prepared experiences is somehow not "real" as we expected.
aikodream 10 months ago
@aikodream Ah. I see. :) It's a lovely art video. I had no idea the manicured parks were presented as "nature." My point is that even if we were to walk into a rainforest that no one had ever seen, we still wouldn't be accessing the "real," because we bring our already perpared mindsets to it. The "real" can't ever be accessed without the mediating influence of signs. So there has NEVER been a time when we experienced "reality as it actually exists."
textcavation 10 months ago