Art Irritates, Reality Imitates
Why does anyone bother to watch Big Brother these days when they can get their voyeuristic fill of narcissism from people making intimate soap operas of their lives on blogs? Perhaps the relish with which ‘ordinary’ people seem to persist in jumping at the chance to be parading their insecurities, arrogances and some of the other less attractive aspects of their personalities on public media, is paralleled in the personal diaristic style of many a blog.
This year BB also demonstrates a particular tendency of mainstream television, which is to use ideas first explored by artists in experimental media. In this case the BB graphics use a similar digital fragmentation to that which I explored 5 years ago in Sevenths Synthesis. What took them so long?
posted by Steven Ball at 2:20 pm
2 Comments:
Looks like with everyone leaving, BB will all be over in a couple of weeks this year anyway...I blame the graphics..perhaps they should try an artist colony next time
Well all I've seen of it is about 10 mins of the first night and the 20 mins or so of what I needed to record to capture the above video, both times without sound, so I can hardly pretend to have any idea about what's going on.
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