Collage Concepts

• Reflecting the disjuncture and fragmentation of modern fast paced urban life the montage creates new meaning through juxtaposition
  
  
• Meaning of an image depends on the images surrounding it
  
  
• Art begins the moment one begins to combine and join various images
  
  
• A collision of images out of which arises a new concept
  
  
• The collision between thesis and antithesis produce something much greater than the sum of its parts
  
  
• The images through which the world was seen, become the images through which the world will be seen.
  
  
• Images feeling their way toward relationships with words
  
  
• Re-imaging not recreating the world
  
  
• A news summary or gazette of moments compressed, overlapped, and composited into a pastiche
  
  
• Extracted from narrative or other contexts and jumbled together
  
  
• A bunch of interesting moments put together produces a new often fascinating way of seeing the world
  
  
• A forced condensation of reality
  
  
• Bemoaning short attention spans we never celebrate the amount of impressions we can take in a short amount of time.
  
  
• "Grasping quickly we read signs, change lanes at 70 MPH avoiding other vehicles while listening to a song and planning the weekend” Mitchell Stephens
  
  
• Moments are reconstituted into a multi-perspective series of instants
  
  
• A way to move and be frozen in revelatory instants at the same time
  
  
• Fast seeing
  
  
• Collisions among these instants create new events
  
  
• Beauty and poignancy of words with didactic orderings
  
  
• Confident excursions into the unreal
  
  
• Juxtaposed images sustaining multiple thoughts simultaneously
  
  
• Densely packed words add additional meaning
  
  
• Ambiguities of sorted images further reduced by words
  
  
• Take advantage of our eyes abilities to spot connections
  
  
• The basis of pictures is impressions and moods
  
  
• Concentration of space and time beyond words
  
  
• Multiple fragments assembled under new laws
  
  
• Densely packed parts substituting for the wholes making it possible to consider a larger number of wholes
  
  
• Challenging richness of imagery not easy to follow
  
  
• Each unique relationship of images is a scene
  
  
• Possible to shuffle reorder and compare large numbers of scenes
  
  
• Pulls scenes out of original context and see them in new ways, finding new patterns and categories
  
  
• Analyze scenes with objective detachment changing thought it’self
  
  
• Multiple criss crossing narratives telling an excess of stories from an excess of perspectives
  
  
• A message may contravert the original narrative in a criss crossing of perspectives with new messages arising from the collisions
  
  
• A super fluidity of perspectives so deep it is beyond narrative
  
  
• Information scattered, stacked, swirled, and layered
  
  
• Beyond-narrative nontraditional form of organization
  
  
• Structures that trip over each other
  
  
• Impressions and thoughts overlap
  
  
• Thoughts layered on top of one another
  
  
• Simultaneously coordinated mix
  
  
• Thematically organized
  
  
• Visual equivalents of harmony, counterpoint, variation and accent
  
  
• “The Emergency Broadcast Network”: quick-paced video montages out of news broadcasts, movies, TV shows, and industrial films, all set to a techno soundtrack; Pearson Post Industries
  
  
• Language as caption
  
  
• Culture jamming
  
  
• Each image steps back from the one next to it
  
  
• Each image is in a position to smirk at the one next to it
  
  
• Irony about irony about irony
  
  
• Increased space for caring, commitment, and concern between the images
  
  
• There is always a broader perspective to be had
  
  
• The image of the non-image
  
  
• Watching ourselves watching ourselves watching
  
  
• The more eyes used the more complete the vision
  
  
• Dancing from perspective to perspective
  
  
• The greater number of pages seen with in a space of time the greater the depth and breadth
  
  
• Flurries of scenes
  
  
• Multi-levels of understanding existing simultaneously
  
  
• Words impose an interpretation on the images
  
  
• Free association of images
  
  
• Meaningful reassembly of disparate images
  
  
• Appealing equally to emotion and intellect, can be freely interpreted by the lights of ones own mental baggage
  
  

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