Pedagogy of the Oppressed Panel Notes

Symposium:

• ISEA94: Fifth International Symposium on Electronic Art
• More presentations from ISEA94:  

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Women, Men and the Cartesian Coordinate System (Gender/Blender: High & Low)

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed Panel Notes

• Joan Staveley

• Panel: Pedagogy of the Oppressed

  The Computer Graphics model for three dimensional Cartesian coordinate space is an implementation of an invented method for the description of “real” space. People have been using 3D interactive computer graphics for a little over thirty years. This model for describing space is used in computer graphics because it works; it’s practical. A lot of quality 3D computer graphics have been produced over the past 30 years, but no descriptive language is absolute. Cartesian coordinate space has its biases; it does some things very well and it
  neglects others.
  For a variety of reasons Western cultural and capitalist attitudes tend to falsely empower Cartesian coordinate space as absolute, and if not absolute then at least superior to other descriptive visual systems. A White heterosexual male point of view is dominant in this space and the pressures to create spaces, images, movement and narratives in a few limited styles reflecting the White male voice are great.

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