Chapter 1

The two artists i have been looking at are 'Koyaanisqutsi' by Godfrey Reggio and 'Doll Face' by Andy Haung. Koyaanisquitsi was filmed in 1982 whereas Andy Haung's 'Doll Face' was filmed in 1996, a past and more current piece.

In the film 'Koyaanisquatsi' its mainly about changes in the world, how it changed from simple to complex technology and population. It narrates a life cycle from beggining 'cave man drawings' to the popluation of people and technology growing more and more, getting rid of old and replacing with new, finishing with disaster for example a falling rocket. Whereas Andy Haung's piece 'Doll Face' has a completly different concept of the media lieing to us, and people cloning role modals of what they see is perfect. Starting with a robot girl, watching flashing images on television pausing on a face of a 'beautiful' women, with the robot girl cloning the women going through extreme lengths to be 'beautiful' and 'perfect'. It Finishes with the robot girl not reaching this goal and ending up on the floor broken.

There are some simularitys in the video's 'Girl Chewing Gum' by John Smith and 'Doll Face'. Girl Chewing Gum was filmed in 1976 when video equiptment was very new at the time and people had a very low budget, and the audience wouldnt have seen alot of experimental video before. The concept of the video is how media is minipulating people, John Smith shows this by using his voice in the background of everyday life so as if its like he is controlling/ directing everyone. He miniplutaes the audience to think the storys he is telling are true, later then reveals he recorded a street on a normal day, then just added his voice into it. Alike to the video Doll Face, Andy Haung shows how the media lies about body apperence and perfection. Both the concepts are very simular, however the context from both video's are very diffrent.