Questions Set #2

1) The article mentions San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curator Christine Hill stating that a fundamental idea held by the first generation of video artists was that in order to have a critical relationship with a televisual society, you must primary participate televisually. Do you think this is true of most art forms? Is art simply how we respond to the world around us, the new technologies? The people? 2) The article also claims that by the 1960s, Americans were watching up to seven hours of TV daily and it was becoming a consumer society. Does ingesting that much media change how you view art? Does it become more important or less important?

Time in Space

Stop Motion Video: Time

Marxist Reading Questions

1) Walter Benjamin makes a claim that, "in principle a work of art has always been reproducible. Man-made artifacts could always be imitated by men." I found this interesting because it seems like society sees art as one-of-a-kind, personable and even individual. My question is how much truth can be brought to this statement in the modern art of today? Does the society's emphasis on mass production affect art? How? 

Follow ups would be: Does this affect the value of art? Is an exact replica worth the same as an original? Specifically, does digital art fit into the category of mass production because of social media and the internet?

2) Benjamin also says, "But as man withdraws from the photographic image, the exhibition value for the first time shows its superiority to the ritual value." Again, does this align with modern digital art such as movies, or add campaigns? Sometimes someone's exhibition value is enhanced by their own connection or in this case "ritual" value for it. 

My triptych depicts the concept of time, how grueling, draining and often overwhelming it may be. I tried to show a version of how time works in this way through relevant pictures and their placement. The images go from least to most impacting. Coffee helps the people constantly in a hurry keep going and going and going. The commonality of space in these images show that, like people going about their daily lives, it is never ending. Time has always been my biggest fear. As these images are dark and confusing, so is my idea of time itself.