Evaluation and Reflective Statement
Through my ongoing blog posts I have made an active engagement in how art has been used throughout the decades to communicate our thoughts on War.
Art activism creates awareness for a problem, by using affective communication to reach as many people as possible and making them motivated for change. “They gather together and create a movement, and that movement creates change. That change results in more motivation, which results in more change. Eventually we create a near perpetual motion machine that cycles back and forth between motivation and change, all fuelled with information.” (Stephen Duncombe & Steve Lambert). From my research undertaken I have discovered the importance and necessity of using art to create social or political change in our society. I never considered how art and culture could influence change in such a vast way. For example the work of the Artlords in Kabul has established social transformation and behavioural change, by giving the community a voice against the war and its corruptions.
My understanding of war was perhaps it is necessary at creating change and stamping down on corruption and of the lack of human rights. However through this module and researching anti war campaigns, I have a better understanding of what war can do to our society. The fact that we needed art activism to publicise what wars can cause leads me to believe that our dominant figures in society, such as the government, only tell us what they think we should know. For example during the Vietnamese War, the American Army hid the massacres of innocent Vietnamese communities from the American public.
I have enjoyed this module as I have always set out to create art and visual communication tools, that speak about important social, environmental and political issues. Through doing this blog it hasn't changed my ideas but more enhanced my objective of creating work that gets people to want to help change our society.
What has inspired me about my research is that it is entirely possible to make work that can help and change our view on our society. From simple art works on city walls, to installation and protesting, the act of sharing art can be incredibly powerful. Although I haven't been able to use this module to full affect in supporting my practical work, I hope to use it in the future to inspire how to communicate through visual aids.
I would like the explore this module further especially my research into anti war art activism, there are so many people who have taken to art to tackle war and its outcomes. How people throughout the decades have used art to influence our society on war has definitely changed from the Vietnam War in the 1960’s to the Afghanistan war in the 21st Century.
The best choice of source that I used to help me through this module was websites such as BBC news, that provided plenty of facts and figures that were reliable.
Art activism creates awareness for a problem, by using affective communication to reach as many people as possible and making them motivated for change. “They gather together and create a movement, and that movement creates change. That change results in more motivation, which results in more change. Eventually we create a near perpetual motion machine that cycles back and forth between motivation and change, all fuelled with information.” (Stephen Duncombe & Steve Lambert). From my research undertaken I have discovered the importance and necessity of using art to create social or political change in our society. I never considered how art and culture could influence change in such a vast way. For example the work of the Artlords in Kabul has established social transformation and behavioural change, by giving the community a voice against the war and its corruptions.
My understanding of war was perhaps it is necessary at creating change and stamping down on corruption and of the lack of human rights. However through this module and researching anti war campaigns, I have a better understanding of what war can do to our society. The fact that we needed art activism to publicise what wars can cause leads me to believe that our dominant figures in society, such as the government, only tell us what they think we should know. For example during the Vietnamese War, the American Army hid the massacres of innocent Vietnamese communities from the American public.
I have enjoyed this module as I have always set out to create art and visual communication tools, that speak about important social, environmental and political issues. Through doing this blog it hasn't changed my ideas but more enhanced my objective of creating work that gets people to want to help change our society.
What has inspired me about my research is that it is entirely possible to make work that can help and change our view on our society. From simple art works on city walls, to installation and protesting, the act of sharing art can be incredibly powerful. Although I haven't been able to use this module to full affect in supporting my practical work, I hope to use it in the future to inspire how to communicate through visual aids.
I would like the explore this module further especially my research into anti war art activism, there are so many people who have taken to art to tackle war and its outcomes. How people throughout the decades have used art to influence our society on war has definitely changed from the Vietnam War in the 1960’s to the Afghanistan war in the 21st Century.
The best choice of source that I used to help me through this module was websites such as BBC news, that provided plenty of facts and figures that were reliable.
