Here is some more recent work I have compiled:
We were given a project that let us explore one of three topics...
1. Urban Myths/ Legends
2. Vive le difference! (This was celebrating or abhorring the difference between cultures and everything in them) or
3. Fashion victims
I chose to describe the differences between different society mechanisms.
Namely the attributes to a modern, capitalist, consumer society like ours in the present day, against the much more closed communist style societies from the past.
To help me do this I needed a representation of each society...
As luck would have it, the relatives of well known (but now deceased) TV artist Tony Hart were staging a facebook event outside the Tate Modern.
The purpose of this event was a competition for who could create the most 'heart-felt' MORPH as commemoration to this former legend.
(MORPH is this animated, genderless human representation, who featured with Hart on the TV show.)
Even the BBC turned up to film this event!
I decided to use this opportunity to stage my project!
The pictures above are of My Morph. I wanted to visually display the concept of my project and I thought the essence of 'The Terminator' would be awesome. It even explains how the two cultural concepts are connected until one is destroyed.
It also suggests that the mechanic culture is the 'under/exo-skeleton' of the organic culture. It takes the repression of one to allow the other to flourish! It also suggests logic and structure as well as a merciless machine. (Industry, 'the system', social structure... whatever you want to call it).
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