YouTube Remix

Artist Statement- I found this project to be interesting as well as challenging. I am not use to working with code so the challenge increased as the project progressed. I really find this lady's news story remixed into a song with videos ranging from animation, re-creation, to previously developed videos, very creative. I did have a hard time syncing all videos and sound together. I spent a good amount a research searching the net for codes that would mute some of the videos that had similar if not the exact song, but I had no luck in finding a code that actually worked. So, I decided to rearrange the videos so that the other videos sounds would come in at a lower sound and create a background repeat. The volumes of each video must be lower than the larger middle video for the piece to have successful sound piece.

Overall, I choose this initial video as my piece subject because the videos are hilarious. These videos are a sure way to crack a smile.

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Digital Currents: Chapter 4 Discussion Question

1.Rosalind Krauss, art critic, termed early video works as “narcissistic” performance. How does works by Berly Korot, like First Four Monitors of Dachan, fit into the idea of “narcissistic performace” in realtion to video art?

 “Krauss describes this narcissism as a kind of psychological strategy for examining the conditions and traditions of the relationships between the process of image-making and the viewer’s perception of it.”(99)

2.Robert Pinaus- Witten said that “video art was ‘deficient precisely because it was linked to and perpetuated the outmoded clichés of Modernist Pictorialism.”’ (106)

What does he mean by “perpetuated the outmoded clichés of Modernist Pictorialism?” What are the clichés? Is he using the term modernist pictorialism to refer to a minimalist approach to a modern media?