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Quiz 14 | Diller + Scofidio, Blur

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Diller + Schofido's Blur is a complex work where it reveals cloud, conceals cloud, and gets one into the cloud

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Blur is equated with indubious

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Descartes's philosophical project is to shine the light on human reason

a)

True

b)

False

4.

If the fog or cloud of Blur offered an experience of a vaporized, massless or light world, it provided the perfect setting, Scofidio claims, for the experience of "another all-pervading, yet massless medium" of light and flickering messages:_________________________

a)

the Internet

b)

the Computer

c)

the Website

d)

the Book

5.

In Blur, technology produces a cloud in which we dwell with things, people and messages of which we have only dim awareness yet a clear feeling of ____________________

a)

disconnection

b)

connection

c)

information

d)

disinformation

6.

What could possibly be divine about life inside a cloud?

a)

"Cloud of Knowing"

b)

"Cloud of Doubt"

c)

"Cloud of Unknowing"

d)

"Cloud of Undoubt"

7.

Entering the cloud in pursuit of the divine life means leaving behind the world of solid and stable objects seen clearly and placed distinctly to run after the elusive and mysterious, the face that is seen less and less clearly the more truly one attains sight of it

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Theologically speaking, cloud is not dark; indeed, the darkness that negates light must itself be negated or overcome. The ___________________cloud is the negation of this darkness, itself a negation of light, but the _________________ cloud negates darkness without returning simply to the light in which things are seen clearly and distinctly

a)

superhero

b)

superlucent

c)

superficial

d)

super

9.

Opposite “The apotheosis of electricity,” their technologies move us to clarity and distinctness, introducing us into the clouds and bringing us to inhabit the blur of a world with clear and distinct, high-definition or high-resolution images.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

Entering the cloud in pursuit of the divine life means leaving behind the world of solid and stable objects seen clearly and placed distinctly to run after the elusive and mysterious, the face that is seen less and less clearly the more truly one attains sight of it.

a)

True

b)

False

11.

If it is indeed by technology that we make and sustain a clearing in which what comes to light might come to light,________________ is one such technology, but it makes and sustains an opening better understood as a cloud than a clearing-perhaps a cloudy clearing.

a)

reason

b)

passion

c)

love

d)

science