Second Assignment

Question 1

The Cartesian Perspectivism.
This regime is very geometrical and is so mathematical that it is formed from a grid system. It is clinical, geometricalised, it is worked out on analytical grids. All aspects are clinical and scientific and seen through the eye of the beholder and only from his or her perspective. Cartesian perspectivism is also extremely 3D when seen. Everything is seen as if looked through a picture frame. “What you seen is what you get!” Life is seen while standing still. Everything is seen by the beholders perspective and how they perceve visuals. Monocular vision is the term used to describe how things are preserved. Monocular vision refers to only one eye being used, this explains why things would appear to look so geometrical and mathematical, when viewing anything with one eye, the vanishing points all lead to a single point.
Barconian Observationism
There are many differences between “The Cartesian Perspectivism” and “Barconian Observationism”. Barconian Observationism is seen as 2D, This regime is very flat map planed, it also includes words and objects to add to it’s visual space. There are no frames in the Barconian Observationism, there is no monocular vision, the lens is absolutely structural then the Cartesian Perspectivism. The example shown in the text is that light will be reflected off objects that already exist, as apposed to objects being modelled by light and shadow seen in the Cartesian perspectivism. There is a much greater use in colour and texture in the Barconian Observationism, detailed surfaces which are worked on rather then having to be explained. Work that already exists, artists will continue to work on to something that which already exists, and adds to this. The way to travel has already been paved and is completely encompassed in photography.
Baroque.
This regime is sublime, it is composed of suggestions and allegories of obscurity and opacity. This regime also includes moments of unease.
This concept requires “thinking out of the box”. There is no clinical or mathematical like the Cartesian. Baroque is soft focused, there are multiple variables to be considered and is to be taken very open minded. Baroque is seen as irregular and oddly shaped, bizarre and peculiar. Baroque makes use of popular culture and manipulates the culture to how it seems fit. Baroque images are dazzling, disorienting, it is an ecstatic surplus of images . Baroque rejects the use of monocular vision( Cartesian). Baroque is also revolved around the opacity of it’s content, it is also known by the inability to be read and the reality it contains and depicts is indecipherable. Images in the Baroque were like signs, and it tried to represent the unrepresentable, it was all about the “Madness of Vision”.




Question 2
In the reading “Panopticism” written by Michel Foucault the description of “panopticism” used describes the story of how they had to hold mad people and criminals. They built a single tower and around the tower in a circular shape they built rooms with a single opening. This opening allows just enough light so that only the tower is able to see inside the tiny room. The person inside the “cell” is unable to see the person in the tower, the person in the cell is unable to have any contact at all, not with the people in the cells around him/her or the person in the tower. The person is at the absolute mercy of the person in the tower. This description of Panopticism relates to the first of Jay’s scopic regimes: “Cartesian Perspecticism”. It is monocular and so would be the view from person in the cell. Cartesian perspectiism is very geometrical and organised, so too is the picture imagined from the view of both the tower and the view of the prisoner. In the Cartesian perspectivism things were certain , there was only one way to do things and that was it there was no room for new ideas things were set. Similarly the prisioner has no choice, his fate is set that is how things are, that is how things have been, and it is how things will be.

Question 3
The scopic regime that best characterises the internet age would be Baroque. This is because the Baroque regime was about suggestions, and it was sublime there were no limits. Similarly the internet has no limits, if an illegal site is spotted and removed from the net, there will be two more the following day, there is no real way to control what happens on the internet, and because the Baroque regime was irregular and a manipulation of culture it too has no limits. The Baroque regime tried to represent the unrepresentable , it was not mathematical or based on certain rules and regulations