Digital Culture Viewing Assignment

Digital Culture Viewing: Select 1 Video about Digital Culture from the list below.

The Facebook Dilemma > PBS

Digital Nation > PBS view online

Rip! A Remix Manifesto > view online

Assignment: Choose one video, then watch the entire documentary online. Make notes and write a short reflection on what you found most interesting or surprising about the topics. (about 150 words) Be prepared to discuss in class after Spring break. Reflective writing due on March 17.

LINKS / Descriptions of Digital Culture Viewing Choices:

The Facebook Dilemma

The promise of Facebook was to create a more open and connected world. But from the company’s failure to protect millions of users’ data, to the proliferation of “fake news” and disinformation, mounting crises have raised the question: Is Facebook more harmful than helpful? This major, two-night event investigates a series of warnings to Facebook as the company grew from Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard dorm room to a global empire. With dozens of original interviews and rare footage, The Facebook Dilemma examines the powerful social media platform’s impact on privacy and democracy in the U.S. and around the world.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/facebook-dilemma/

Digital Nation on PBS Frontline

Watch the full documentary, write a short reflection on how your personal life is impacted by pervasive technology and any resonance or surprise you found in the video topics… LIVING FASTER  / RELATIONSHIPS  /  WAGING WAR /  VIRTUAL WORLDS  /  LEARNING

Digital Nation on PBS Frontline (viewable online)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/

RiP! A Remix Manifesto (about 86 minutes)

https://player.vimeo.com/video/8040182

Please view full video online. Take notes on what you find most revealing or surprising about the contemporary practice of remix artists. Does the video raise issues about your own use of digital media… in your artwork or your life? How do you feel about the artistic practice of remixing? Do you side with the CopyLEFT or the CopyRIGHT?

RiP: A Remix Manifesto from Laurent LaSalle on Vimeo.

MOSAIC PROJECT: Spring 2020

In the era of selfies, this digital art project poses a question: What is portraiture in the digital age? Consider the history of portraiture, especially self-portraits by artists, and how the era is reflected in the style of the portrait.

Mosaic Project Intro Slideshow / Low-rez
http://www.d.umn.edu/~jrock2/mosaic_project_intro_lowrez

Look at these: https://mymodernmet.com/famous-self-portraits/

More examples:
http://www.d.umn.edu/~jrock2/self_portraits/

ART 2016 Mosaic Project : Create a self-portrait that reflects your own identity as an artist in this contemporary age. Your portrait must also engage the concept of mosaic in digital media and should be assembled from multiple pieces that together form the whole. Allow the divisions between these pieces to play an active role in the image dynamics of the portrait. As tiled images these should reflect the multiplicity and fragmentation of personal identity in the digital age. Consider mixing traditional techniques (drawing, painting, etc) with digital techniques. Employ art principles to strengthen image unity (color, line, texture, etc). Assemble a dynamic image that contains both unity and surprise. Work at appropriate image resolution for quality output. Plan ahead for a final work at large scale (at least 24 inches in both directions… so the final print can be: 24″x24″ or 24″x36″ or …) Assemble mixed-media to highest quality final craft.