Keitai Aesthetics continued for another week, with Jing touching on the tension between mobile phone art and the traditional notion of photography art. With IPhone applications like Instagram and Hipstamatic, can anyone become a professional photographer, making these professional photographers appear foolish, as their line of profession seem like one that can be undertaken by anyone with a smart phone. Is the art of photography diluted now? On the other hand, mobile phone art is becoming more and more recognised, with exhibitions of mobile phone photographs being held. Documentaries are also being taken with the video function of smart phones, emphasizing on the whole notion of a "mobile multi-modality era".
Tutorial 3 was hands-on fun as well. We had our second class exercise, where we had to take an extraordinary sighting amongst the mundane, ordinary everyday life. So I walked around school again, looking for inspiration, until I saw, just opposite the bus-stop outside the Central Forum, the row of flowers along the walkway to the Engine canteen. People were walking pass that walkway, minding their own business, but who will stop to look at those flowers, which were in full bloom and vibrantly coloured? So I took a photo of the flowers, highlighting their sense of neglect, and only then were people taking notice. I added some effects from an application of my phone, creating a "sense of loneliness" for the flower.
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