Thoughts on New Media Artist Brian Knep

I have great respect for artists whose work is purposefully made for the viewer personal experience. I really like the fact that Brian Knep’s work becomes apart of the surrounding space and exists in the real world rather then just on the gallery walls. His work looks like fun and it’s alluring to be able to interact with something you can see but not touch. Brain Knep has a pretty heavy artist statement, which ties inconstancies, human experience and technology together, but I feel like his artist statement is unnecessary for his viewer to have fun and appreciate his pieces.

 

Social Networking Project

For this assignment Alyssa and I teamed up to create a fan-base community for the hit show Degrassi: The Next Generation using Ning's social networking website. Our page allows fans like us to show their love and comment on the characters and their drama in this series and answer weekly questions posted on our forum. The link is posted bellow 

The Grape Vine

Response to the Yesmen

I fully agree with the ethics of what they do I think what they are doing is forcing these higher powers into a state of realization that there meetings are not as secure when complete strangers can sabotage their meetings. What they are doing is out smarting large corporations that most likely feel safe and secure with in their statues. I have got to admit I personally know very little of the institutions that fall to the hijinks of the yes men but it seems obvious that the members of the yes men have a substantial amount of information that can give good reason to play a prank on them and all in all it’s just a prank and no one gets hurt. It is disgusting to me that the people in these conference refrain from any disagreement or protest their demented ideas only because they assume they are people of power and statues. This makes the victims of the yes men to appear heartless and with out any morals or concerns for others, which is a pretty freighting realization.

 

While researching more about the yes men I found out that Jacques Servin one of the two leading members of the yes men pulled a large-scale prank while designing the game Simcopter before the creation of the yes men. “Servin inserted “himbos” (male bimbos) in Speedo trunks who hugged and kissed each other, who appear in great numbers on certain dates. Their fluorescent nipples were drawn with a special rendering mode usually reserved for fog-piercing runway landing lights, so they could easily be seen from long distances in bad weather. An unintended emergent behavior of the code caused hundreds of himbos to swarm and crowd around the helicopter, where they would be slashed up by the blades, and then need to be air-lifted to the hospital -- which earned the player easy money”. This stunt seemed so similar to the yes men’s pranks, such a ridiculous event thrown in to such a mundane atmosphere resulting in a humorous juxtaposition.