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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C621J6lp8fA

Performance Art Piece Critique

Kimberly: COnfusing, intense. Fits with all the shenaniganesque we've seen in class. Really interesting effects and multilayers, interesting execution, definitely creative.
Catherina: Supremely personal piece, clearly wellt hought out, maybne a bit going away from the point in the project.
Sabrinna:Repetitive and a bit bland, failed to follow instructions, but interesting concept;.
MIchele: Cponcept was there, but no performance art component.
Erin: Decint ideas, btu could ahve been better, felt incomplete.
Megan: Very good, a bit safe but solid piece, strong message.
James: Toos imple/safe, kind of effective point but lost because of setting.
Chris: Nice videoideas,end of world is there, but not performance.
Ariel: Uhh, wut. Kind of boring, not original, beyond save but ok.
Cody: Very literla, very intersting, creative but simple.
Nakota: Was confused, didn't see the point, dry.

Performance Art Piece

Ergh... The Audio/Subtitles:

December 21st, 2012
Dear Diary;

Today marks the start of the lame duck's Congress recently passed legislation. They called it the Protection Act of 2012. As of today, cameras are starting to be installed in every home everywhere, and all phones are tapped. They also claim they've invaded the world wide web with bugs to control not just the country, but the world's internet. How they're doing it we don't know, its been said that they've recenetly made breakthroughs that allow to perfectly spy on every citizen. Its scary how technology can rob us of our privacy like that. But the U.S. isnt alone .It's back by a UN order and multiple other associations around the world. In an effort to establish world piece and to protect the "Citizens of the World" from the "Worst of Humanity" the entire world has begun to pass similar legislation. The protection doesn't stop at communication - its physical, mental, and spiritual. We all have to follow and believe in the laws, if we show even the slightest hesitation we are branded criminals and sent to locations that the public yet doesn't know about. We're hearing that its mass execution camps, but news has become nonexistent since they silenced the internet. Even now as I write this, I do so with complete deference to the law, for I am a humble servant of the world. Those who protest are never heard from again, and its only just begun. Some say they are afraid, that its going to get worse as time goes on. We have no privacy, no freedom anymore. We have ceased to be individuals. Even the government is now controlled by a strict set of routines.

-January 1st, 2013
Dear Diary;

It's been a little over a week and already the PA is under full control. Many friends are no longer here, disappeared over night. The world is getting smaller, more and more laws are being passed aimed at "uniting the world" - Uniting for what, I wonder.

March 3rd, 2013
I'm done. I'm going to disappear tonight, Its not worth living like this, we aren't individuals anymore - maybe future generations will live like this, not I. I hear the footsteps outside my door now, my life comes to an end soon. This is how the end starts.

The idea was to make the technology invisible in the sense that it was simply what robbed the protag. of his privacy, of his life. The technology was invisible as it was meant to be but yet had a very profound effect on his life. The end of the world was simply taken to be the end of privacy. 

Hunger Games Cameo and Legendary Synthesizers

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/03/rare-electronic-music-hunger-games/

It's interesting to see that such an obscure piece from a time when such a composition being used in a major film would be considered blasphemy to come to light under the circumstances that it did. It opens the door to the possibility of other composers of the mid to late 20th century to show up in films when they're least expected. Having seen the movie and know the scene they're talking about, the piece was used as such compositions are to western sensibilities instead of going into the deeper possibilities of the composition, it just uses the buzzing and pulsations to create a scene where the protagonist is disoriented, scared, and for lack of a better phrase, hauling ass. It fits the situations, if not a bit too cliche.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.05/blackbox_pr.html

Going through the list of such groundbreaking synthesizers, it's interesting to see how they all began. Some were a mistake, others a gamble, etc. Overall it's interesting to see how these came to be, and exactly what they did that managed to get them a spot on this list. It's enlightening to see exactly how far back and how organic the history of synthesizers and music creation in the 20th century and beyond has been, how it's been less planned acheivements and more just strokes of luck,

Xerox Critiques

Megan: Trippy, creative, unique, above and beyond the call of duty.
COdy: Maybe too few variations of pieces of the body
Sabrina: under done? Could use more work/variation but really visually attractive and interestingly thought out.
Brian: Way too simple  COuld have challenged himself more.
Nakota: Amazing idea and production, attention grabbing, creative, a bit unoriginal but highly well executed.
Airel: INteresting work on the contrast, but lacking in contnet. COuld ahv ebeen more eleborative on the subject.
Michele: Texturized, creative, time consuming, personal, but might have strayed a bit from the objective.
Lauren: Relaly well done, insightful self-though provoking.
James: Too much negative space, intersting idea.
Kim: Really well done and executed, drawn excellently from the examples in class. Horroresque.
Erin: Really well done and beautiful
Maria: Chaotic, failed to understand.

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