suggests Internet as an isolator, a man-soul imitator, time traveler, and yet–a source of community…feeding lonely souls via e/commerce, myspace and search engines.We’re Alone Together: Evolution of technology affects the evolution of human social interaction and the easier life gets, the less responsibility, commitment and challenges befall mankind making us more susceptible to violence, perversion, and self destruction. Siegel’s Intro and first chapter reminds me of Disney/Pixar’s Wall-E ’s depiction of future humans–fat and actually devolved as they rely on computers and robots for EVERYTHING.I guess Siegel’s saying that convience (despite obvious advantages) comes at the price of evolving intelligence and the further development of the human mind (socially and intellectually). I can’t say that I fully agree with him, but his criticisms are very plausible.
Lori Clark | Sally Mann | Pipilotti Rist | Brent Green
I love you, who are you: reconstructive portraiture is the first of Candied Cavities’ patron curated shows, highlighting non-traditional portraiture work created in the pursuit of the identity of family, friends, acquaintance, historical, and ambiguous or fictional characters. I Love You, Who Are You features the work of four artists: Sally Mann, Pipilotti Rist, Lori Clark, and Brent Green. The works include photography, video, stop-motion animation, and illustration. All of these selected artist works carry a biographical theme, rummaging through decay and innocence lost, and the limiting societal restrictions that confine the modern individual.
Sally Mann
Sally Mann is an American Photographer from Virginia, best known for her large black and white photographs Although not all of her work is portraiture, the majority of Mann’s photographic work subjects her children. She claims to only photograph what is there because it exists within the same space as her. But as she inspects and explores her world with a she is creating a sort of documentative portraiture of her children, investigating their lives alongside her own.
Pipilotti Rist
Pipilotti Rist is a well known Swiss video artist currently working out of Zurich as well as Los Angeles. Her work deals with sexuality, the human body and gender through vivid color, eerie sound, repetitive imagery, and time altered video. All of these themes are pieces to constructing identity. Her work, “I Want to See How You See” (2003) creates multiple perspectives. Rist explores the macrocosm of humanity, a sort of collective portrait. A lyrical tale of a witch’s coven is played over images of a person where each body part symbolically represents an area of the world. “I’m not the girl who misses much” (1986) gives the viewer a sort of voyeuristic perspective into the inner struggles of a disturbed and manic woman.
Brent Green
Brent Green is self-taught animated filmmaker who lives and works in Cressona, PA. He has received grants from Creative Capital and the PA Council On The Arts. He is primarily known for his stop motion animations but he also creates illustrations and sculptures. The piece selected for this show approached portraiture through a specific lens—that of the artist as a child. Aunt Carlin moved into Brent Green’s house when he was a kid- she had diabetes and really wanted to die. Carlin was shot stop-motion, with life-sized wooden characters and stuffed chickens, in the farmhouse where Green grew up. Green constructs identity through storytelling and peculiar illustrations.
Lori Clark
Lori Clark is a digital art student at Metropolitan State College of Denver. Most of her work is appropriated imagery, and other multi-media constructions, but her most recent explorations have been in the areas of identity, video projections and sculpture. Clark’s work, “Spinning Out Katie Rose” is a non-linear conglomeration of found footage and sound in order to represent her view of a loved one’s destructive behaviors—spinning out of control. The Video deals with being a spectator to innocence lost creating a multiple portraits (of Katie Rose alongside the artist’s ability to deal with the situation.)
Lori Clark.Net Theory.Art3536.M.Jenkins.Fall2008 \\I love you: I miss you//Who are you anyways?
The Internet is a venue for personality multiplication
And it liberates individuals from typical social inhibitors
Who you are can be combined with
the picture of the person you want to be/look like/act like
your inner self manifests its desires so often online
your online angst turns into an outward you and develops and develops
until…
Where is the beginning of the line?
There is no distinction between the entities, but they are kept separate
I don’t know you in a work world or family world,
Or at school or with that girl you hang around
I only know you from the information you’ve chosen to pop up online
The rest is hidden under quiet mystery smiles
I saw you in a dream world: buried in codes and embedded deeply into networks, disfigured by flickering lights and nanomachines…
But this part of you is just a ruse
I want to see you.
I’m not afraid of how seeing more will change my current picture of your face.
You are blackened eyes and fancy liqueurs and “Fuck You”
The second can’t exist without the first
I don’t know because
You never told me
But I was just looking at your second Internet identity.
The last time I saw you was at Christmas,
But I don’t think I’ve ever seen the whole picture.
you understand that there’s nothing there from any of us when we’re there.
Only inside you. Outside you. You made you and
This digitized world is just venue for your simulated self.
“i feel like an idiot when i waste time on my computer
because i could be out doing things.
so i think i’m going to end this now. i love you.”
Nightmarish//these digital organs ticking tock past the clock
Across years of networks, through miles and miles of satellites and cables,
I am getting closer to uncovering your puzzle pieced portrait via Myspace
than if we were to hang out for an afternoon. The online world is free of social barriers…this kind of exposure makes you less vulnerable because there’s no body involved. It is easy to get carried away with a fictional self, but ultimately the portrait you project will become synonymous to your physical self in at least one form. The internet is a tool for simulating intimate friendships with out ever facing the danger of leaving the house and/or looking someone in the eye…it’s zero risk community designed perfectly for combination of fictional self and existing self.
i’m a leaf: dead floating, crunching, crushed red through the streets trying not to watch what the hell do i know preoccupied with floss and decay distracted dreamer one two three four five six wiki wiki timbo! asthma baby
hey your eyes are truly breath taking
they steal my breath from my face
they steal my lungs
connected to my heart
connected to my arteries, capillaries, veins
connected to my skin
connected to my gums
connected to my teeth
connected to my
please don’t look at my corroding, stinking decay cavities
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