The idea behind these photomontages is that I took Douglas Couplands love for pixels and combined them with the idea that the internet is feeding into reality.
This is quite a literally. What I was trying to say with this photomontage, tv brainwashing the youth. But doesn’t effect the adults. Went for more iconic tv screens on the kids cause you get a clear understanding of whats its about with the black and white spiral background. Its makes it obvious thats its about hypnotising the young.
The concept is the same, still touches on the hypnotic side of the internet but I wanted to showcase like the internet glitching into our world. If that make sense. Thats why there different colour blocks but there all pixelated. The
With this on I wanted to be more literally with my message. But this time, i wanted to use iconic game characters but in the context of my concept. Throughout the photomontages I use vintage images cause there such a contrast between the Black & White images to the solid colour blocks throughout the piece.
For the last three images are standstill and I remember talking to Jason & Becky about how I was going to make my work. Jason said something about how my previous photomontages were static and whether I would want to work on movement.
So just to experiment, I used an image of Bella Hadid and put the same elements as the last images but with a Kirby sticker. Added that cause it reminded me of those “sticker drugs” with different characters.
Similar to the last one, I just wanted to explore more on making GIF’s. This piece I would stay is recreation of some kind. To the work of Nam June Paik especially his “TV Garden” which was featured in the Tate Modern.
What I took inspiration from is that throughout the “garden” the tv’s were just playing multiple of images/ videos some where just the news whilst others were provocative. I lean more towards using “more out” imagery but layered on top of it is the Pacman starting screen.
Aisha Beya 