ART 211: Art And Technology

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL4YsTb7huA         I approached this project with extreme bias. Hip-Hop/Rap has always been a genre of music that has raised controversy; in 2018, that is no exception. However, increasingly, ignorance regarding the music and the culture of Hip-Hop/Rap has become acceptable. To showcase this sentiment in the video, I've made the clips where ignorance regarding the genre and its icons - specifically Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar - black and white. This conscious decision was done to showcase how narrow their view of the genre is - not because they are unable to understand the genre, but because they refuse to understand the genre. The talking heads/news pundits/terrible researchers that comment on the culture - solely to push whatever agenda they need for their show - clearly do not know what they are talking about. The problem is not that they are talking about the genre; the more people who talk about Hip-Hop/Rap, the better for the advancement

1. Funk Rock - Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Song: Californication Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk - The Red Hot Chilli Peppers when they came on into the scene revitalized the rock world with their implementation of funk inspired musicianship - the same influence can be seen in popular bands like Sublime. However, I chose this group specifically to represent the genre of Rock (or Funk Rock) because of their music video for Californication that was released in 2000 - with the song being the title track for the album. The music video implements both real footage of the band performing the song in a heaven-like atmosphere while being juxtaposed by a video game(s) that involve the band members in video game forms. The video game within the music video seemed to be modeled by the video games popular at the time on game consoles such as Playstation 1. However, the use of technology is obvious; using the vehicle of a video game to relay the message of the song has an inter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7TYU7Lj6M0 First thing first: this did not go as we planned. At all. We ventured to figure out how people would react to strangers - us - holding up signs with the offers of "Free Compliments" or "Free Insults"; we expected people to be receptive to the compliments rather than the insults, but both fell flat. People were not receptive to our offerings; however, we summarized it was for a couple of reasons. One of the biggest factors for the lack of reception can be relayed to technology. Most of the people we crossed paths with we're either talking to people who were on cell phones or on their own cell phones. They were disinterested in the performance, which then led to our eventual dissatisfaction and loss of energy for the project. Technology's impact on our performance cannot be understated. The next factor that led to our poor performance was the fact that we were two men. At first, we believed women would not be rec