Mid Point Review

21.2.12MA Digital Arts / Nahram Yu

0. background

1. idea/themes

“We have found the enemy and he is us”

• irony/contradiction– Life and death– Love and hate– Pain and pleasure– Luxury and

poverty– Beauty and

ugliness

• confusion/uncertainties– illusion– dualities– Time/space– distortion

• art-anti art– Parody/satire– Challenge to

conventions– disorientation– nonsense

words/statements/quotes

2. Irony/contradiction - the word as art

• Helps to describe the distinct characteristics of an artist’s practice

• Cubist painters integrated letters and words, painted and found, into still lifes and Dadaists used playful linguistic manipulations

• It can be used in multiple ways: as narrative, as instruction, as statement, as sculpture, in literary and poetic forms, as recorded speech, and as the matter or object of the artwork itself.

• Artists such as Jenny Holzer and Barbara Kruger have appropriated the message as their medium, placing provocative, often highly politicised statements in public places

• The physical impossibility of death in the mind of someone living – (Damien Hirst)

• We avoid risks in life so we can make it safely to death

• how can a person give you so much strength yet still be your only weakness?

• if everything I say is a lie, am I telling you the truth when I say I'm lying?

• If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?

Experiments

3. Irony/contradiction - imagery

4. Confusion/uncertainties

Experiments

5. plans/outcomes

• 2d – digital projection/digital print• moving or interactive – web, video,

animation• installation

7. Discussion topics

• From my experiments, which piece of work was most memorable and why?

• What ironies of this life have you experienced/encountered?

• Humans are contradictory beings. Discuss

• Does technology advance the depth/level of interaction between people or does it hinder it?