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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.

  • Welcome to the Metaverse (8/4/2022)
  • The Net Artist as Auteur In Virtual Space (4/23/2020)
  • Democracy vs Authoritarianism (2/25/2020)
  • How Democracies Die (2/7/2020)
  • Betrayal (1/31/2020)
  • Artists Reshaping the Dominant Narrative (1/26/2020)
  • Deep in the Heart of Ukraine (11/16/2019)
  • Countering the Republican Disinformation War on Reality (11/14/2019)
  • Big Brother is Tweeting You (11/3/2019)
  • A Taxonomy of Televisual Hypnosis (10/10/2019)
  • The Televisual Impeachment Spectacle (10/3/2019)
  • Reportage (7/23/2019)
  • The Imposition of the Host on the Disorderly Flow of Events (6/2/2019)
  • The Most Dangerous Threat of all is the Post Real (5/20/2019)
  • Beyond the Edge of the Real (5/3/2019)
  • He is Eating Your Soul (5/2/2019)
  • As I Sink Even Deeper into the Hypnosis of the Media Torrent (5/1/2019)
  • The Challenge to Scale Up for TRUMPological Times (4/15/2019)
  • To Grasp the Sheer Volume of Media Excess (4/14/2019)
  • The Dilemma of Art Making for Super-Participatory Phone Addiction (4/4/2019)
  • TRUMP the Manchurian Candidate (3/3/2019)
  • The Greatest Show on Earth for the Post Reality (2/27/2019)
  • The Complete and Total XTreme TRUMPological Shutdown of the Mind (1/18/2019)
  • Wall of Mediation (1/11/2019)
  • New Year’s Greetings from the Bunker (1/1/2019)
  • Composing THE MEDIA (11/19/2018)
  • We Live Inside the Manifestations of Human Minds (10/19/2018)
  • The FLOW (10/4/2018)
  • Selfie Buddha (5/28/2018)
  • A Post-Television Surreal (12/21/2017)
  • The Political Effects of Media-On-Tap (12/17/2017)
  • We are Active Participants in the Videosphere (11/4/2017)
  • The Art of TRUMP L’oeil (8/12/2017)
  • On Becoming a Meta-Narrator and Aggregation Machine in the #NeWWWorlDisorder (7/20/2017)
  • The Net Dynamic Environment (5/27/2017)
  • You’re Fired! (5/12/2017)
  • Made-for-Media Moments (2/13/2017)
  • We Must Now Become a Media Weapon of Disinformation (1/16/2017)
  • Requiem for Truth (1/14/2017)
  • The Exploding Perpetual Motion Media Machine (12/15/2016)
  • The Death of Reality (11/25/2016)
  • Truth is Stranger Than Fiction (11/12/2016)
  • President TRUMP: Only in the Post Reality (11/9/2016)
  • Political Discourse and its Malcontents (11/4/2016)
  • The FULL ON Grip of the Media Torrent (11/3/2016)
  • Hurricane Donald (10/8/2016)
  • The Erosion of the Real (9/28/2016)
  • What Induces XTreme TRUMPology? (9/10/2016)
  • How to Embrace XTreme TRUMPology (9/3/2016)
  • The Poetics of Machine Language (8/18/2016)

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