Memoria of Carol Flax...

Memory drives this artist...

Archival vs. Digital storage
OR
Freedom of the Media

Taking information from different sources
Appropriating Data
Translating it into one's Schtick

My visual metaphor of MetaData:
MetaData is data that takes the same data and frames it into another perspective on the data. It is data that continously gets manipulated but that can go on forever. This image of one of Flax's work made me think about MetaData as this continous process of manipulation where you want the data to appear in its original form but it is still being framed by the hacker's schtick...but it is a forever ending process.
META is being self-referential, as this image evokes...

It's NOT about being the exact same data...
It's about the references we make with it.



Flax also intersubjectively jammed with the notion of
Public vs. Private Content
Personal vs. Public
Public vs. Private
It all seems to blend...

How can we separte them?
Do we need to make distinctions?
It is an important distinction when one's career enforces a legal distinction.
But does being an artist allow more flexibility with this distinction?
When is it okay for our work to mix not just with pleasure
But with our persona, with our personal?
Does this mixing produce a more humanistic element to our work?
Doesn't it start from the personal - our narratives -
In order to embrace the political, cultural, social, etc. issues?
Or are we just not supposed to share our stories?
The world would be very non-humanistic...

Distant Presence:
Multimedia senses...
Multi-schtick presence...
The presence of these multiple visual screens provides the ambiance of the multiple human influences of the main subject, which appears on the big horizontal screen. This emphasizes another element of META, of being manipulated and influenced by many sources. This art piece inspired me to think about how to visually present multiple perspectives on one piece. Each screen would have its unique audio output with looping images specific to each perspective.
What are other ways in which we can digitize our senses?

E-Book...Interactive-Book:
[Would upload image of her interactive narrative/book piece but it's not working :-( ]
This is a very interactive and engaging idea to allow the viewer to physically turn a page of a book as a sensor for digitally turning to another document/image/perspective/etc. How can we take our everyday non-digital, ephemeral objects and turn them into a digitally interactive source?