the Euclidean Fly: grawlixes as affect

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maandag 31 oktober 2022

electricity=affect short circuit=grawlixes

These illustrations from William John Johnston’s Lightning Flashes and Electric Dashes from 1877 are the earlies examples of grawlixes to date on this page.

(found at see dailycartoonist)

This article https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/english/2019/09/11/american-telegraphic-literature/ of Harriet Thompson @harriettho, connects these grawlixes with electricity and electricity with spirituality, as well explores the relation between gender and these new emerging technologies. I think both affirm my own observations that grawlixes resemble the 1900s idea of the spiritual in art and can also be seen as manifestations of patriarchic routines that are cut-off by some unexpected event. https://archive.org/details/ProgrammingWithGrawlixesPart3

metaphorical mapping:

electricity=affect

short circuit=grawlixes

#grawlixes #grawlix #emanata #cussing #marcvanelburg

donderdag 10 september 2020

Grawlixes and the Kuleshov effect

the Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov conducted an experiment in which he took a shot of an expressionless face and created three different short films, editing the face with a bowl of hot soup, girl in the coffin, or the seductive woman on a couch.

Even though we know the shot of the actor exactly the same in each scenario, audiences read meaning into the actor’s face by the nature of the shots around it.

here is a variation that tries to show the effect of Grawlixes

It shows the similarity between Grawlixes and 'affect'

"If emotions are personal experiences, then affects are the forces (perhaps the flows of energy) that precede, produce, and inform such experiences." (steven shaviro)

And according to Silvan Tomkins feedback of the facial response is the experience of affect

and thus in the grawlixes examples above the same affect can evoke different emotions

and the same expression is interpreted differently when connected to different affects

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gGl3LJ7vHc

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Does-the-Kuleshov-Effect-Really-Exist-Revisiting-a-Barratt-Redei/d961622d70807f29ce0d2ca4422d9506eb454540

vrijdag 4 september 2020

Grawlixes and the Self Assessment Manikin (SAM) test

The Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) is a non-verbal pictorial assessment technique that directly measures the pleasure, arousal, and dominance associated with a person's affective reaction to a wide variety of stimuli.

by P.J.Lang

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