Monday, October 3, 2011

Reading Assignment Questions: Chapter 2 - Video Art

Question 1:
Video artist Vito Acconci created visual scenarios that explored the sensations of voyeurism and false intimacy that video and film provide. What do you believe are the consequences derived from the constant bombardment of video/film images?

Question 2:
Chris Burden's work aimed to "shock viewers into a new relationship between the performer and the audience, in which the viewer becomes implicated in the performer's extreme actions." How do you feel about this sort of manipulation? What emotions would be invoked in you as the viewer? Would you feel complicit or would you feel separated from the acts being witnessed?

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