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Media Person

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You've lost touch with reality. Your world is nothing but words and pictures. Images and games. You're the perfect media person. The new media person for the 21st century. You buy the logo. You buy the image. It’s all image and no content. It's all fast and surfacey. Fallacy, phallocracy.

It's An Image That's In You Mind, It's An Image.

rearrange your mind

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is is an updated riff off The society of the spectacle by Guy Debord. Consumers become marketing data in the ebb and flow of information systems. I edited this by separating all the spoken phrases and the rearranging them. I also created groupings of rythmic patterns based on drumming and drumrolls. I can see with this piece that even though I've shuffled all the bits of the performance, the meaning still comes through. The next steps are to train myself to perform so that in the post production process the material is rich. I'm also creating a rudimentary language system of tics and patterns. All of this leads to a databased performance work that can be generated by an algorithm.

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Creating Value

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"...and this is true of art as well: the grand utopia of art, the great illusion, the great transcendence of art materialized everywhere. Art has thoroughly entered reality.Some say that art is dematerialized. The exact opposite is true: art today has thoroughly entered reality. It is in museums and galleries, but also in trash, on walls,in the street, in the banality of everything that has been made sacred today without any further debate. The aesthetization of the world is complete. Just as we now have a bureaucratic materialization of the social,a technological materialization of sexuality, a media and advertizing materialization of politics, we have semiotic materialization of art. " Jean Baudrillard - The Conspiracy of Art

Art Making System

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What performance art proposes is that everything in this process can be considered art. Each act in the system is a fractal component of the whole system. It can be presented as art. The whole system can be taken apart and rearranged to create a new art work.

The Death of the Artist

Some people are touting the death of the artist. This is where everyone is creative. No more need for exceptional individuals. Only organizers, only curators. We can all work together. No one is special. That’s because we’re all special because we're all the same.

Yeah right.

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I bumped into a friend of mine, he's a painter but he does high end cabinets to make a living. He lives in a tiny apartment in the Lower East Side. He gave up painting because he couldn't afford the rent on a studio. Now he makes his images on computer. They’re the same but not in paint. I guess he didn't hear about the death of the artist yet.