This article by Brian Droitcour starts out by stating how readily available video has now become and especially the availability of the webcam or online video. Next he goes into talking about Rosiland Krauss' essay in which she discusses Richard Serra's Boomerang which focuses on Nancy holt. She is speaking and listening to herself at the same time. It is quite a captivating video in which the viewer is drawn in and interested in what is being said.
Boomerang:
I especially find it nice that Krauss describes video as the aesthetics of narcissism. Video draws attention from others objects and places the attention on ones self.
Towards the end of the piece, Droitcour talks about Myspace and the introduction videos kids made to express who they were. Guthrie Lonergan collected the videos and compiled them. "No matter how much users try to 'express' their 'true' selves, each becomes just one more piece of information, one more lonely avatar," Gene McHugh wrote. "And in the end, the avatar doesn’t express itself—MySpace does." In the end the kids aren't really being themselves but putting on a face that is expressing what they want to show the viewer. They are only showing the qualities that are most desirable to viewers.
This line made me think of a video trailer which I will share, it is kind of far fetched but it is what was brought to mind thats all.. "viewers could see how the prosthetically enhanced arts were poorer than their analogue predecessors. More recently, however, Bailey has moved toward an exploration of vulnerability, asking not what technology obscures or deletes, but what it can expose. He thinks of programming as a kind of drawing, and drawing— as the cliché of art criticism has it— is the most expressive and open of mediums, a record of the immediate contact between the artist's body and the surface he's working with."
Transcendence:
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