Identity

The Topic of Memory in Movies

  • Memento
  • Blade Runner

One of the main topics in art is identity.

Do Ho Suh

Seoul Home, LA Home
Homes he carries with himself

Art as Memory

Marc Chagall

  • Poetic paintings, many about his lover
    Gerhard Richter
  • Never Look Away movie about him
  • War photographer
  • Either as a starting point or as something to paint on
  • Invents a visual style to allude to
  • The fleeting nature of episodic memory
  • Calm, eery emotional effect
  • Technique of blurring lines and shapes in photos to create a dramatic effect
    Joseph Cornell
  • Objects that evoke memory
  • Uses old everyday

LTP

HabituationSensitization
BenignHarmful

Priming

An improvement in the ability to detect or identify words after recent experience with them.
(priming before playing wordle?)

Perceptual Learning

An improvement in the ability to discriminate simple perceptual attributes such as tones or line orientations simply as the result of performing these repeatedly.

Emotional Learning

An improvement in the ability to remember in emotionally arousing situations.

Fear potentiated Startle Response

Startle more vigorously if you are already in a state of fear or arousal rather than a calm state

King’s Speech

Trainspotting