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Keiichi Matsuda

Keiichi Matsuda is a London based artist who is a designer and film-maker. Matsuda mixes Japanese and British origins. His work has been widely exhibited, from London’s V&A Museum to New York’s MoMA, as well as attaining viral success online.

Keiichi Matsuda: Hyper Art

Keiichi Matsuda directed the video installation called “Hyper-Reality”. It shows the blend between augmented reality and actual reality. Matsuda explores connected environments also using interactive installations, where he reprocesses and makes visible the information that permeate the city every day, which is not perceivable separately through our devices.

What would I incorporate from Keiichi Matsuda’s work into mine?

From his work, I would incorporate the idea of augmented reality blending into actual reality. Visually speaking, I find his concept drawing for his installations interesting as its kind of a window into his thought process.

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In Real Life

Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland is an Candian novelist and artist. His visual work looks into themes like curiosity with the corrupting and seductive dimensions of pop culture and 20th century pop art. Douglas Coupland takes great inspiration from Andy Warhol’s work.

**Due to his fascination with technology, a lot of his work appear in a stylised pixelated look.**
**“I think that the way my brain is wired, words and objects are almost exactly equal,” Coupland once explained. “I sensorily detect little difference between the two.”**

Micro Manifestos:

“Slogans for the 21st Century” by Douglas Coupland. Douglas used Copenhagen as his personal exhibition when he decided to put up 500 posters overnight. The slogans aim to challenge and describe the thoughts and ideals governing contemporary societies. Coupland also chose slogans that relate to life online and offline. With these slogans he also comments on questioning the media platforms that create our behaviours and interactions, from Facebook to Tinder.

What am I going to take from him?

His visual choice with pixelating certain bits ion his art is an really interesting choice and I would love to incorporate that style choice into my work.

Also in terms of visual, the way that he colour block his piece is definitely something that i will be considering throughout my work.

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In Real Life

Mazaccio & Drowilal

Mazaccio and Drowilal are a French duo that use images from the internet and defaces them using spray paint and tape. By using these mediums there work comments on how mass media is shaping dreams and identity.

The genre of work that they produce falls into the category of “Iconology”. Iconology looks at the study of visual imagery, symbolism, and interpretation.

Elise Mazaccio and Robert Drowilal have been working as a collaborative duo since 2009 when they began creating self-published photo-books.

“The idea was to make edits, or snapshots, by collaborating and denying the concept of image authorship,”

The images are drawn from Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest.The duo work with a wide range of images, from advertising and stock imagery, to cartoons and internet memes.

“For us, the work of art is part of this huge tank of images that are shaping the imaginary. It’s all about deconstruction and parallels.”

What am I going to take from their work?

The concept that the comment in their work is interesting. I like how have two different mediums combined into one. The idea would be that I would produce photomontages that look at the internet vs reality with a brainwashing theme throughout. Hopefully. I want to blend my drawing skills with my photoshop skills this time around.

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