Documentation: Keeping track or recording your progress as you do your work. Help with reflection and meeting your project goals.
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Performance: Another form of presenting/showcasing art/any sort of work. *doesn't have to be on a plain canvas*
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Great art: What is 'great'. Who decides which art is 'great' and which art isn't.
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Subject: The subject the tangible object/person you use to convey your idea/content? A content is different to THE subject.
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Form: The different techniques or ways of producing/presenting art?
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Strategy: The different methods of using the subject to convey the content using different forms. The idea behind using everything the way it is used.
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Truth+Fact: What's true? What can be true? It's more true than untrue. Can truth be false? Can something that's untrue be not false?
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Visual Culture: ideas, customs, social behavior, perspectives of a particular thing in a cultural context or sub-group.
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Hierarchy: The ranking system that's been set by someone; you, society, canon, a cultural group. Varies as context/surrounding changes. Visible in language, signs, culture etc.
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Active Resistance: Constantly thinking about why and how rather than just stating you dislike or disagree with something.
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Field: An area of endeavor base on knowledge.
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Cultural legitimacy: To speak, adopt a style. Hierarchy of style in that particular field.
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Historiography: Process of writing history or the study of that process.
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Post modernity: Impact of modernism; reaction from modernism.
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Modernism: birth of an era from the industrial revolution with the invention of steam engine.
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Semiotics: Study of signs. Sign exist everywhere in every form. Architecture, hierarchy.
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Iconic sign: Figurative or literal.
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Indexical sign: Usually refers to other knowledge. eg: cloud=rain.
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Symbolic sign: Has a meaning because we agree they do.
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Syntax: study of the rules for the formation of sentences.
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Infantile amnesia: Inability of adults to retrieve episodic memories as infants. usually the period before 3 years old.
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