While reading Art in the Age of Digital Distribution i was interested in finding out about Natalie Bookchin and her works of art, because the text described her as a of game art and a work of net art. One of her more recent works of art I was very interested in was “Now he’s out in public and everyone can see”. What is interesting about this work of art is that it is all made up of videos of just regular americans struggling with the idea of race and identity. The description on Bookchins website offers a bit of insight on the piece and how it is about a bunch of different african american men in the media. When I watched it myself it seemed odd that much if it surrounded around Barack Obama. Many of the blogs state that he won’t produce a birth certificate or that he states that he’s half black and half white. This piece is certainly exciting because of all the recent events surrounding movements like Black Lives Matter.
Now he’s public and everyone can see
Another artist discussed in the text was Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, who deals more in the realm of surveillance art, one of his newer pieces is called Zoom Pavilion, from 2015. This piece includes 12 surveillance cameras and tracks the surveyed on their spatial proximity to the exhibit. Surveillance is a something the publics have become very aware and afraid of. This piece is to make the public think about surveillance. It bring surveillance out of hiding but at the same time keeps itself hidden because participants don’t know where the camera are hidden within the exhibit.