1.) Presentation #1

http://www.nickbriz.com/oneliners/

Nick Briz by Aidan Danahy from Art 346 Digital Media UNR

Nick Briz is a pioneer in the genre of glitch art. I found his utilization of compression software very interesting and his work on the GLI.TC/H projects fascinating. His projects include humorous oneliners that comment on different parts of modern culture including secularism and the use of modern technology.

Presentation #2

A Study of Works Done by Michael Kontopoulos

Removal Studies

Discontent 1

Discontent 2

Discontent 3

Removal Studies (4) from Michael Kontopoulos on Vimeo.

I chose Michael Kontopoulos for his visualization efforts. Through his works, he tries to measure and quantify discontent. There are some projects nowadays that quantify happiness, and Kontopoulos states that if you can measure happiness, you must also be able to measure unhappiness, or discontent. His works are primarily analog, which make them interesting in a mechanical way.

2.) Reading "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television"

Why do you think he wanted to create the image of famous people, to have power?

Is such a perception really that powerful?

3.) Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell

Nam June Paik

http://www.askkpop.com/article/Exhibition-quot-X-sound-John-Cage-Nam-June-Paik-amp-After-quot/

This is a piece by Nam June Paik titled Cage in a Cage, a tribute to his friend John Cage

I find the ironic commentary in this piece intriguing, that the tv is our own cage.

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/nam-june-paik-cage-in-cage

This is Concrete Traffic by Wolf Vostell

I found this piece particularly interesting as a commentary on the ephemeral act of traffic, something that seems so concrete and unmoving, but never lasts.

http://neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/faculty/material_matters/project_1_wolf_vostells_concrete_traffic/

4.) Lynn Hershman

Home Front

In Home Front, footage of a married couple is incorporated into a Gothic style dollhouse. Visible only through the window, a 33-minute unedited sequence shows the dissolution of an idyllic domestic scene into a disturbing and violent fight. Another window of the dollhouse features a 26-minute loop of footage of the couple recounting the events, each giving subjective, conflicting interpretations of their dispute.

5.) Laurie Anderson

Habeas Corpus

Laurie Anderson worked with a former Guantanamo Bay detainee to set up his telepresence in the Park Avenue Armory.The piece, entitled Habeas Corpus, projected Mohammed El Gharanis likeness onto a statue akin to Lincolns at the Lincoln Memorial for 7 hours.

6.) A Review of HyperNormalisation

HyperNormalisation

The documentary HyperNormalisation, made by british filmmaker Adam Curtis is a stunning

documentary comprised of found footage. It tells the incredible tale of how we arrived at such a

tumultuous era, where the government is powerless and aimless. Horrible news stories and

occurrences keep straying further and further from the norm. This film doesn’t try to interpret or explain

it’s clippings, but rather why we are unable to. It covers what is happening all over the world, not only

what’s big in the public’s eye, but how society has shaped and distanced itself to what is going on. It

highlights the contrast of the reality we live in and the reality we have created and shaped to fit our

demands. It covers the past four decades and how our current crises have evolved into what they are

now.