Week 4: The Image as Networks - The digital Narrative, Curse or Blessing. Photographer Nan Golding

The Image as Networks - The digital Narrative, Curse or Blessing 

How do you feel if you cannot access technology? 

I know how i feel.. 

I feel Anger, Frustration, Panic; incase no one can get in touch with me or if i can't get in touch with them, for i do not know everyones number.  

Is this a Curse or a Blessing? 

Technology is the new improving way of communication, learning new things, whereas if you are 50 years old or so on and you look back on what you used in school for learning, it was a black board/white boards, but in todays society children as young as primary school are using technology, for example commuters, xboxes, tablets, iPods and so on.... 

These are what you call DIGITAL NATIVE - people who were brought up with technology

DIGITAL IMMIGRANT - someone who finds there way into technology. 

SILVER SURFER - an elderly person who has very little contact with technology. 

Which one are you?           I am a Digital Native...

Technology is increasing everyday and like in school technology is progressing into universities...
There are different phrases which uses technology in them...

Evergreen Student: An Evergreen Student is someone who brings there technology with them to university/college. Although they bring with them their technology, they expect the university/college to have all of the right software to support their technology.

Globalisation: Globalisation in the world of technology is always progressing, especially throughout universities. They are competing against one another for each other for resources and the very best students. technology effects the way a student thinks when it comes to applying for university/college, they always want the most up to date technology.

Technical & Information Literacy: Campuses are now improving they way they use technology and the way you use technology around the campus; encouraging students to use the facilities for example their computers, smart devices. Technology is a new device and the software for this is being taught through workshops.

Mobility: Technology is a way of communicating, a way of talking and in todays society technology is the most common way of getting in touch, either through a text message, Skype, phone call, or email. Technical Mobility is an important role in todays society.

Teaching and learning: Teaching throughout university is becoming my based of technology, focusing on the internet and social media sites, which offer your work a bigger viewing market, for example social media sites such as Flickr, Blogger, Wikis and so on.

Edutainment: The use of the internet sites can be used for social, entertainment and education, combining the use of Youtube, iTunes and other internet sites not only for entertainment but educational as well. Teaching is progressing through technology, but is it for the best?  

Technology is way of progressing through society and become more independent and reluctant on what is on the internet, not only on the internet but through photography, fashion and many other areas of the world. Technology is progressing and so should we.
But the main situation is that should it be where you should not have a one to one with a tutor or should it be over the internet. For me i would rather have a one to one, because the internet is a confusing place sometime and not all of the correct information can be on there.
But what do you think? 

Photographer Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin as a photographer captures her life and experiences of what she has witnessed, putting herself into situations which are touching, emotional and unique. They shows happy times and sad times, whist offering a different perspective of being in that moment with the people in the picture.  

All Photographs belong to the Photographer Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin had a hard time growing up with the suicide of her sister, this lead Nan to see the world in a new perspective and i feel this lead to the in-depth emotions which she uses in her photographs. when i first looked at Nan Goldin photography i felt a sudden emerge of sadness and happiness. Nan started off by photographing Drag Queens, the happiness, beauty and talent, offering a bigger view into the lives of these individuals and there personalities. Nan was always photographing whether it was the drag queens or her own life, capturing moments of truth, life and horror. The main work which took me by surprise when i first looked at her work were of her friends and how they suffered with aids and the deterioration of how there bodies were over taken by this disease.
Looking at this photographer , she documented her day to day life, this is a way of celebrating and remembering her friends, her loved ones.
Nan Goldin work she use to display it through powerpoint, but as she has become more famous, she now has books which hold her work, books such as 'Ballad of Sexual Dependancy' and Tokyo Love - Spring Forever 19940.

Below is a video of Nan Goldin's work, offering the viewer a better understanding of her work and for the viewer to get to see more of her work.

My own opinion i didn't really like her work to begin with, i just didn't feel like some of the stuff she documented were stuff i wanted to see, but its not just about the image, its about the story behind the image, and the story is where i struggled with, i have a large amount of respect for Nan Goldin's photography and its has opened my eyes into seeing what the world is like, and what others are like and not to judge a picture by its cover. 

Bibliography 

MATTHEW MARKS GALLERY'Nan Goldin' http://www.matthewmarks.com/new-york/artists/nan-goldin/ (30/12/2014)

STONARD J-PAUL 'Artist Biography' http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/nan-goldin-2649 (30/12/2014)