Curated Art: Exposing Advertising

Curator Statement:

The three videos included in this exhibition are a collection of remixes that expose the hidden agendas of commercial advertising. Each video demonstrates a different perspective of the world, from the eyes of women, artists and even machines. These three artists beg you to think and see that we are not only being sold cars, T-shirts or toys but we are being sold a version of corporate America’s identity. Through the use of text in Rebecca Pannitch’s “Remix- AED 811” to the use of opposing narration in Liz Johnson’s “75 Second Remix” these videos all point to our society forgetting the important of working with our hands, the importance of art and most of all the importance of being an individual.

Find Card

  1. Find a video that shows an opposite
    How does seeing the opposites together change your perspective of the video?
  2. Find a video that includes clips from another period in time
    What does it show you about where we are in time now?
    In what ways does it conflict with or compliment the other video clips?
  3. Find a video that you agree with
    What part of the video do you agree with and why?
  4. Find a video that includes a machine
    What is the purpose of the machine and how is that important to the message of the video?
    Do you think that this machine adds or subtracts from the quality of life? Why?
  5. Find a video with a person who is speaking
    In what way does this audio track support the message of the video?
    If you take the audio away from the visual, does it have the same impact? If not, how is it different?

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