Question 1

____________ was obsessed with the idea that an actual photograph of the Earth would reinforce the imperative to respect and protect it.

Accepted Answer

A)   Stewart Brand
B)   Lisa Parks
C)   Arjun Appardui
D)   William Anders A

Question 2

In April 2016, the GULF (Global Ultra Luxury Faction) artist group projected images of the Guggenheim museum's trustees and protest slogans onto the exterior of the Guggenheim in New York. What was the purpose of this action?

Accepted Answer

A)   to end the franchising of cultural institutions
B)   to expose the petro-capital behind the museum's Abu Dhabi branch
C)   to force the Guggenheim to return foreign artworks collected illicitly during times of war and imperial expansion
D)   to demand that the museum pay decent wages to the workers building its Abu Dhabi museum D

Question 3

The hacktivist group Anonymous produces videos featuring a person in a Guy Fawkes mask. When a video is released with this masked "star," Anonymous is presumed to be the producer. Which group used a similar tactic in the negotiation of its global image?

Accepted Answer

A)   Occupy Wall Street
B)   the Black Panthers
C)   the Gulf Labor Coalition
D)   the Zapatista National Liberation Army D

Question 4

What makes contemporary globalization and its flows of images distinct from other periods during which images circulated globally?

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Question 5

The ____________ film industry is a multibillion-dollar industry that produces over a thousand films a year, all of which are filmed and edited on digital media and released directly to DVD.

Accepted Answer

A)   Egyptian
B)   Indian
C)   Hong Kong
D)   Nigerian

Question 6

____________ cultures, in which people are dispersed across national boundaries and continents, are linked in part by global media cultures.

Accepted Answer

A)   Marginal
B)   Postcolonial
C)   Diasporic
D)   Globalized

Question 7

While ____________ may be dismissed by some as "merely" ideological and therefore harmless, theorists such as Herbert Schiller argue that ideology is a powerful means through which a country's population could be transformed into subjects who think and feel in ways that conform to the national interests of the invading country.

Accepted Answer

A)   the distribution of the sensible
B)   globalization
C)   cultural imperialism
D)   the Bilbao effect

Question 8

What is the common narrative about digital media and the network society that does not match social reality?

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Question 9

____________ involves the use of tiny dots spaced closely or widely, and sometimes overlapping, to create fields of varying color and tonal range.

Accepted Answer

A)   The Ben-Day technique
B)   The Gutenberg method
C)   Lithography
D)   Woodblock printing

Question 10

La Reina del Sur (The Queen of the South), a Spanish-language telenovela produced by American, Spanish-language network Telemundo, premiered in 2011. It quickly achieved huge popularity, its finale averaging nearly 4.2 million viewers. In the 18- to 49-year-old demographic, the finale was second in its timeslot regardless of language. Due to its success, USA Networks released the English-language Queen of the South in 2016. Its development as an English-language show after its success in the Spanish-language market parallels the production of ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)   Ugly Betty
B)   Dallas
C)   Al Jazeera.
D)   CNN

Question 11

Artists associated with ____________ created satellite art projects in which performers separated by great distances and time zones performed "together" live.

Accepted Answer

A)   Fluxus
B)   Occupy Wall Street
C)   the Global Ultra Luxury Faction
D)   the Zapatistas

Question 12

Lisa Parks argues that satellites helped to create a "global presence" in which "developing nations could only ____________ if they were in range of American, Western European, or Japanese satellite television signals, earth stations, or networks."

Accepted Answer

A)   take advantage of contemporary surveillance society
B)   claim themselves as modern
C)   participate in global flows of culture
D)   resist globalization

Question 13

In 2014, the American non-profit organization Reuse Everything began implementing an idea to reduce the waste of plastic bottles while aiding impoverished people forced to live in small houses with inadequate roofing, such as tin or thatched grass. By cutting up a plastic bottle, flattening it with a simple, hand-cranked machine, and ultimately fusing it to other sheets, a roof is constructed that is water-resistant, has ventilation, minimizes sound, and lasts longer than most materials used. Due to the ubiquity of plastic bottles, this practice is an example of ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)   speculative landscapes
B)   pastiche
C)   bricolage
D)   appropriation

Question 14

Explain Estudio Cruz + Forman's relationship to the shantytowns of Tijuana.

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Question 15

Visual activism troubles the distribution of the sensible by ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)   embracing the use of both technological modernization and grassroots mobilization
B)   altering format programming to fit local tastes and production budgets while staying within genre codes
C)   rendering visible and heard the images and voices of those who have been designated as invisible
D)   creating poetic gestures that use words as war rather than words for war

Question 16

If we can say that visual culture was the paradigmatic form of the twentieth century, what does this book propose as the paradigmatic form of the twenty-first century?

Accepted Answer

A)   museum franchises
B)   television program formats
C)   engineering and the built environment
D)   borders

Question 17

Romuald Hazoumé's La Bouche du Roi (2005) acknowledges the ____________ culture of Benin's residents, who repurpose and reuse plastic cans that are part of a black market in oil between neighboring Nigeria and his native country.

Accepted Answer

A)   deterritorial
B)   appropriative
C)   bricolage
D)   pastiche

Question 18

How did the audience's reaction to Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West (1992-1993) differ from Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco's expectations, and what does this expose about many Western cultural institutions?

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Question 19

What is the main critique of the collecting practices of museums that claim to cater to a "universal" audience?

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Question 20

On May 16, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission ruled to repeal net neutrality laws, which include preventing Internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking users' access to legal content and accepting payment to prioritize certain data. With whose prediction for the future of the Internet does this most closely align?

Accepted Answer

A)   Manuel Castells
B)   Arjun Appardui
C)   Robert McChesney
D)   Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart

Exam 10: The Global Flow of Visual Culture