Esteemed visitors, I have been tardy in uploading the Bauhaus 2022 art projects to you but here they are at last! About sixty eight year Master students took part in this year's Bauhaus arts exhibition, which yielded 12 beautiful exhibits.
Below is a selection of some of their projects. The rest are presented in a slide show at the bottom of the page. Enjoy! The night of 24 November 2021 |
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This very creative and immersive multimedia exhibit chose a very grave and sombre topic: the drowning of migrants escaping war, poverty and hopelessness by embarking on the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean to gain European shores. On the night of 24th November 2021, a French regional maritime surveillance and rescue operational centre called the CROSS received a call from a boat in distress but did not render any assistance. Around thirty migrants were on board a rudimentary inflatable dinghy. They included men, women and a seven-year-old girl. Twenty seven people drowned.
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The Game of Death
Between 1960 and 1963, the Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram tested how people reacted to orders. In his experiment, an authority figure ordered participants to deliver what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to another person in a different room. The first participant could hear the cries of the person being receiving the shocks. Often wishing to stop the experiment, Milgram urged the participant to continue with injunctions such as "Please continue" or "It is absolutely essential that you continue". In this way, he tested people's submission to authority and their ability to obey outrageous injunctions including those that caused pain to others unnecessarily provided the person issuing the orders was perceived as having authority and influence.
Using Stanley Milgram’s experiment as conceptual and design framework, students tested Paul Lazarsfeld's Two-Step Flow of Communication. Lazarsfeld propounded the theory that the influence of the media on public opinion is neither direct nor immediate but is filtered through an intermediate stage made up of close circles, opinion leaders who have a more direct influence on people’s opinions. This exhibit illustrates this. |
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Communication methods of serial killers
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This exhibit analysed the communication techniques of two high-profile serial killers, Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy and how they bring into play, the interpersonal communication axioms of the Palo Alto school. Jeffrey Dahmer, known as the "Cannibal of Milwaukee", was an American serial killer who claimed 17 victims between 1978 and 1991. Theodore Robert Bundy, better known as Ted Bundy, is an American serial killer executed in an electric chair in Bradford County, Florida, on 24 January 1989
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Midjourney: Can machines be artists?
The art world is undergoing profound changes notably with the introduction of artificial intelligence which challenges the very definition of arts and artist. This exhibit raised the dilemma of how 'Midjourney, an artificial intelligence is revolutionising the sector of arts which until lately has always been the preserve of human beings. While Midjourney is not the first AI solution to be introduced in the field of artistic creation, it is revolutionary in its design and ambitions. Previous AI programs focused on creating realistic images from image banks. Midjourney is a generative AI program that focuses on the aesthetics of art, and can therefore draw inspiration from the world's greatest artists.
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Slideshow of the other exhibits