Digital divide: between black and white. Blackness is anti-avatar of digital life. Neocritics: future of body will not mater Futurism(Radical Humanism): we don't want the past, we embrace the future (it will be all good in the future) - social science fiction
Fragmented self: under institution (heighten by computer communication) decentralized self: not under institution
Age, gender, racial ideology on Internet advertising
Mombo Jumbo (by Reece): African methology Afrofuturism: create discussion among African community (that is not about digital divide)
"Jes Grew": threatening west knowledge monopoly
Nerd vs. Primitive is two polar position
Tuggle: blend culture and African methology
funny pill that stops racism
and solves issue by choking
promise a Utopia
"who controls the present controls the past" - George Orwell
Photography, installation, sculpture, IceBox project Pace Gallery in NY, China, Brokelin, Miami...
From south, NJ. Grandfather Louisana poor. concentrated in photography portraits, neon lighting, black light
Question:
portrait or installation
Some of your work looks more like installation than portait
when I think about portait, I think about more natural, un-manipulated that emphasis on human
but in your work, the face is often gone, and sometimes covered with metals (in that case, body is no longer necessary)
why do you to choose show us in photography than installation
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