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Underneath the Skin V.2

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Artist(s): 
Joseph Farbrook
Media: 
Computer, screen and matte
Date Completed: 
2008
Image: 
Artwork by [user-name]
Artist Statement: 

Underneath the Skin challenges our personal suppositions of soul and what remains after the body is gone. Without a body, we are neither male, female, short, tall, pretty, frail, hungry, tired, cold, amorous athletic, nor forgetful. As the body may be thought of as a temporary skin that houses the soul, then what is the nature of what lies underneath the skin? The multiplicity of meanings of the term "skin" and its psychological components are mirrored in de-familiarized skin imagery and abbreviated digitization. Forming meaning from the fast-moving text is similar to the activity that one engages in while trying to determine the nature of oneself by decoding and arranging the clues and events that occur over the time span of experience.

  | Tags: face, Farbrook, subliminal, video

Medium Grind

collisi1
Artist(s): 
Joseph Farbrook
Media: 
Solid state display screen, antique coffee grinder, M16 bullets (inert)
Date Completed: 
2008
Image: 
Artwork by [user-name]
Artist Statement: 

'Medium Grind' explores the feedback loop that exists between the news media and events that are reported and represented. As it is impossible to observe something without changing it, the phenomenon of instant news and live coverage further complicates this cycle as it creates new representations of events before they have finished occurring. The news media itself is a powerful influencing factor on the very events that it reports upon. The media spin gets magnified over and over again, feeding back upon itself, making it impossible to determine what caused an event to happen in the first place. Yet real events, real bullets, and real lives forever get reduced to source material for a brilliant media spectacle.

  | Tags: bullets, Farbrook, grinder, iraq, video
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