Hello everyone,
As previously stated, on Thursday, May 13 the Department of Art is holding the MFA First Year Review from 9:00AM-12:45PM, and as a result Art 1A will start at 1:00PM that day.
Please watch Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's Surface Tension videos while you are waiting for class to begin on this day.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Surface Tension. 1992 (Installation)
Some artists, such as Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, deal with the exploration of the systems of surveillance, and our complicity in those systems when we surf the internet.
Surface Tension "is an interactive installation where an image of a giant human eye follows the observer with Orwellian precision.This work was inspired by a reading of Georges Bataille's text The Solar Anus during the first Gulf War: first wide-spread deployment of camera-guided 'intelligent bombs'. Present-day computerised surveillance techniques employed by the Department of Homeland Security in the United States through the Patriot Act, provide a new and distressing backdrop for this piece."
See Surface Tension videos HERE.
See you then!
Helen, Alina and Maja
