February 13, 2007
Inverted Affects
Interesting, specially today following NY Times article on teenage-fight videos posted on video sharing sites, picked up earlier. A new media artist has integrated teenage video fights in her work, which is included in the e-show „Link-a" via vinculo-a.
Inverted Affects by new media artist Laura Bey is a visual art, showing video clips of teenage fights posted on line and posted upside down.
"All the videos, most of them anonymous, are freely available on the net and have been gathered by Laura
Bey straight from some of the most famous and visited videoblogs. The videos "borrowed" here bear witness to scenes of young violence, fights and many diverse clashes.
However, in many of them, it is easy to detect that these violent scenes have been feigned and recorded; these performances of street violence have been made by the youths themselves as some kind of game or entertainment to be then enjoyed and shared through the videos of its entry.
Bey stresses the intensity of the relation between technology, entertainment and violence in the youth world, and, more directly, in the more and more widespread identification of violence with enjoyment.
[via rhizome]
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