虛擬偶像於視覺藝術教育之潛能

Abstract

The postmodern cultural phenomena depict the marginalization of fine arts in the traditional education and the society; meanwhile, the mainstream value and sense of beauty that dominated our past identities have been widen the scope and become our everyday aesthetic experiences. Among these experiences, the ways that people appreciate arts through the media, namely, the dialogues between the images' connotations and the spectators' ideologies, are influencing and formulating our future education. In another word, the new generations have generally adopted the worldview of regarding the symbolic signs as their new realities. The spiritual interaction and non-material exchange, the fusion of the virtual and the real in the cyberspace have made the images come to live in the virtual world, and accordingly destroyed the 'real' reality.

The above phenomena correspond to Lacan's assertion in terms of "Symbolic Death" of the object. According to Lacan's theory, in order to comfort the lost feelings that derive from a lack of something, people often see parallels between the connotative sign (according to Lacan's description, it is 'the Other') and their inner desires. That is why the virtual idols can live at the images' signs, through which individuals find their own unconsciousness and feel the fulfillment of identities.

Traditionally the school teacher plays the role of 'the Other' when educating their pupils, however, this study tends to explore the idea: When the virtual idol takes the position of 'the Other', can the learners settle their own identities through the inner introspection? The researcher attempts to discuss across the following perspectives: Postmodernism, Visual Culture, and Psychoanalytic Philosophy, aiming at receiving insight into peopled unconsciousness, and hopefully opening up an alternative way to our future art education.