21L.015 INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA STUDIES

m e d i a s p h e r e

this exhibition of online images and sounds from the global mediasphere is designed to get you thinking about media, and the relationship between media and culture, in ways different from those you might be used to.

click on images for large size. to submit an image, sound, or other file to mediascapes, send to mroberts@mit.edu.


dreaming in a modern world
painting of TV set by australian aboriginal artist barney daniels tjungurrayi
97K
reproduced from the cover of public culture 5.3 (1993).

"his statement on this work is that even if confined to an urban society, it is the dreaming that is all important. the snake is one of the totems handed down from his father, tjapaltjarri" [public culture]

the photograph of the painting originally appeared in the magazine tjukurrpa: desert paintings of central australia, published by the aboriginal artists' agency, with text by roslyn premont and mark lennard, photography by claire colrault, in collaboration with claire leinbach.


maasai: in touch with the world
frans welman, 1992
73K
postcard by art unlimited, amsterdam
postbus 1760 1000 bt amsterdam, holland. tel. 020-6851011


mroberts@mit.edu