Effects of Media
EXPOSE THE EFFECTS OF MEDIA… to understand the effects of exposure through immersion, dialogue, sensory overload, critical debate, seduction, comedy, horror, drama, rhythm/speed, noise, repetition, hypnosis, illumination, density, texture, and wit: to confront the ramifications of our collective + individual exposure to the effects of media… Take the viewer into the world of the Artist immersed in the “effects” of the media, a conduit for thse “effects,” channeling them back out… Our media experience is an elaborate set of patches woven together in tightly organized pieces that interlock to form the whole, predictable in form, highly indeterminate in content: we are prevented from achieving too much boredom, enough stimulation to stay fixed while losing incentive to unfix ourselves from the numbing effects of the mediated experience. Yes! That’s it: the rapid-fire, machine-gun stutter effects activate your nerve endings and your pleasure-synapses in the ultimate quest for the turned-on lifestyle.