My final project is a relationship between media and the consumer. I got inspiration from the Society of the Spectacle. In today’s digital and mass marketing age, headlines are everywhere we look, from our timelines, news applications, billboards, advertisements, and magazines. Headlines and titles are what capture our attention and will help in the decision of whether we click or not. Headlines themselves can also play a part in how the article is interpreted, eye-catching or shocking headlines will capture an audience’s attention that will cause them to think before they read anything in the body of an article. Many times on our timelines, people share their thoughts or opinions on articles and papers they have not read, solely based on the headline or title. I chose to paint and collage as a medium because it allowed me to incorporate headlines and article titles into my work.
Society of a Spectacle encouraged my decisions in this piece. The black and white crowd photo displays uniformity and creates a relationship between the individuals in the crowd. They all sit in rows to observe the same subject. In this case, this crowd of individuals is watching headlines, in a similar way that we would. Each person is their own individual being, but they all still watch the same thing. The same way our timelines have their own algorithms, but we always see the same headlines.
A major influence on the changes was the readings and the artist we studied. Mickalene Thomas collaged together photos of black women to share their personal stories, instead of the narratives that have been produced from media. "By portraying real women with their own unique history, beauty and background, I’m working to diversify the representations of black women in art". Amy Sherald wants the insert herself into the world and focuses on painting black people in colorful environments, "It does in light of the artist’s drive to, in her words, seek “versions of myself in art history and in the world.”. The Society of the Spectacle helps tie in Thomas and Sherald because it gives an explanation to how these representations and creates this “reality”. “Images influence our lives and beliefs on a daily basis; advertising manufactures new desires and aspirations.”
Media and its images have a major influence on identity and self-presentation. These major companies put out advertisements, sponsored videos, create movies, and form this ideal lifestyle that the consumer should want to live. Media forms this “reality” and pumps it to the public everywhere, which influences people to conform to it. This desired lifestyle is fed to the public everywhere so much that it becomes our conversations and starts to develop into the “normal”. The Spectacle helps explain how these “realities” affect the identity of a person, “The alienation of the spectator, which reinforces the contemplated objects that result from his own unconscious activity, works like this: the more he contemplates, the less he lives; the more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires”.
Society of a Spectacle encouraged my decisions in this piece. The black and white crowd photo displays uniformity and creates a relationship between the individuals in the crowd. They all sit in rows to observe the same subject. In this case, this crowd of individuals is watching headlines, in a similar way that we would. Each person is their own individual being, but they all still watch the same thing. The same way our timelines have their own algorithms, but we always see the same headlines.
A major influence on the changes was the readings and the artist we studied. Mickalene Thomas collaged together photos of black women to share their personal stories, instead of the narratives that have been produced from media. "By portraying real women with their own unique history, beauty and background, I’m working to diversify the representations of black women in art". Amy Sherald wants the insert herself into the world and focuses on painting black people in colorful environments, "It does in light of the artist’s drive to, in her words, seek “versions of myself in art history and in the world.”. The Society of the Spectacle helps tie in Thomas and Sherald because it gives an explanation to how these representations and creates this “reality”. “Images influence our lives and beliefs on a daily basis; advertising manufactures new desires and aspirations.”
Media and its images have a major influence on identity and self-presentation. These major companies put out advertisements, sponsored videos, create movies, and form this ideal lifestyle that the consumer should want to live. Media forms this “reality” and pumps it to the public everywhere, which influences people to conform to it. This desired lifestyle is fed to the public everywhere so much that it becomes our conversations and starts to develop into the “normal”. The Spectacle helps explain how these “realities” affect the identity of a person, “The alienation of the spectator, which reinforces the contemplated objects that result from his own unconscious activity, works like this: the more he contemplates, the less he lives; the more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires”. Society of a Spectacle encouraged my decisions in this piece. The black and white crowd photo displays uniformity and creates a relationship between the individuals in the crowd. They all sit in rows to observe the same subject. In this case, this crowd of individuals is watching headlines, in a similar way that we would. Each person is their own individual being, but they all still watch the same thing. The same way our timelines have their own algorithms, but we always see the same headlines.
A major influence on the changes was the readings and the artist we studied. Mickalene Thomas collaged together photos of black women to share their personal stories, instead of the narratives that have been produced from media. "By portraying real women with their own unique history, beauty and background, I’m working to diversify the representations of black women in art". Amy Sherald wants the insert herself into the world and focuses on painting black people in colorful environments, "It does in light of the artist’s drive to, in her words, seek “versions of myself in art history and in the world.”. The Society of the Spectacle helps tie in Thomas and Sherald because it gives an explanation to how these representations and creates this “reality”. “Images influence our lives and beliefs on a daily basis; advertising manufactures new desires and aspirations.”
Media and its images have a major influence on identity and self-presentation. These major companies put out advertisements, sponsored videos, create movies, and form this ideal lifestyle that the consumer should want to live. Media forms this “reality” and pumps it to the public everywhere, which influences people to conform to it. This desired lifestyle is fed to the public everywhere so much that it becomes our conversations and starts to develop into the “normal”. The Spectacle helps explain how these “realities” affect the identity of a person, “The alienation of the spectator, which reinforces the contemplated objects that result from his own unconscious activity, works like this: the more he contemplates, the less he lives; the more he identifies with the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own life and his own desires”.
Society of the Spectacle- Guy Debord's
Mickalene Thomas- Mickalene Thomas -Photographed, Collaged, and Painted Muses
Amy Sherald- The Amy Sherald Effect
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