Reading Response

1. Identify the article you have selected and why you chose it.
I chose the "What is 'Sense of Place'?" by Jennifer E. Cross article because I was really interested in the different points of view that it contained. Normally in an article or reading it is one person's opinion and gives a very biased point of view on the topic. In this article, there are many different voices that have different ideas in what the term 'place' means to them.

2. What are the main points of the essay?
The main points in this essay are what different scholars and regular citizens think what a 'Sense of Place' is. The article also goes into detail on different kinds of relationships to a place such as dependent relationships, spiritual relationships, and ideological relationships. With each different kind of relationship, Cross interviewed someone that has experienced or thought of a place, many times their home, that fit under the category. In the beginning of the article, Cross took quotes from different kinds of scholarly books in different categories like Anthropology, Geography, and Sociology. Each quote has a different definition of what place is or what a sense of place is.

3. How are the ideas or arguments in this article relevant to your own practice as a media artist?
This article is relevant to being a media artist because it is not a very permanent definition. As a media artist these ideals are relevant because I can experiment with different types of place to release the question of what really is home or what really is a place. A place can be a home or a place with happy memories or a personal sanctuary and every place has different meaning to every person.