About me

 Hi everyone!

My name is Lucy Jones and I'm a junior majoring in art history with a focus on museum studies and minoring in French. This term I'm doing an academic internship for credit and working as a gallery guard at the wriston art galleries on campus and working at the circulation desk at the Mudd library. My classes are: this new media art class, intro to the art museum, and my capstone course. I'm doing my capstone early so I can study abroad in Paris, France for the academic year. In my free time I love to take walks, listen to music, and talk/hang out with my friends. 

I don't consider myself an artist, but I love learning about how and why artists create art. Over the course of this class I hope to have fun creating things and become more tech-savvy. 

A McLuhan quote that intrigues me is " All media are extensions of some human faculty- psychic or physical." (McLuhan, 26) Over the next couple pages he includes blown up images of body parts like toes, an eye, thumbs, and a naked female torso. I'm curious about why he chose these images, especially in relation to what he said about changes in ratios of sense perception. By blowing up these images of the human body, is he changing ratios for his audience? To achieve what? 

This book is an amalgamation of everything he theorizes, so every aspect of this book's construction- the print, the size, the cost, the spacing of the text - must all mean something, right?

What do you all think about the format of the book? Do you think it's possible to parce out what specific elements signify?

Some fun facts about me are: 

I love sweet treats!!

When I go back 'home' to Chicago (I only moved there two years ago) my mom and I foster cats, kittens, and even puppies. I foster with PAWS Chicago, which means I go to one of their buildings and pick up animals that are too young or need to recover before getting adopted. I take them back home and return them to the organization in 1-2 weeks usually.

Bob the puppy and Elmo the kitten were my fosters over break.