The Medium of Dance and The Rick Roll
Tay Zonday's Chocolate Rain and Race Relations In America
Each piece consists of three videos. The critiques are centered around you tube videos thought to have some type of internet cultural significance for example Tay Zonday's Chocolate Rain or Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up. The language used is a dense almost incomprehensible fine art vernacular to mirror the way historically important works of art are discussed. While The opposing video features a dramatic reading of YouTube user comments.
All three videos will in theory play simultaneously when the viewer enters the page. A lack of bandwidth causing the videos to freeze or jump is ok. The viewer will be able to choose which videos to play and adjust the volume for each video. This limited interaction allows the viewer to experience the work in their own individual way much as how one surfs the internet in an way that can never be duplicated. What would be ideal for the viewer to experience is a sense of information overload. Though this is a common feeling of many people in our information-obsessed society hopefully this piece will heighten or focus this feeling. The chaos of the three videos playing simultaneously illustrates the theory that the conventional way of viewing, discussing, and critiqueing art has become completely archaic due to the Internet.