The video from Dj Spooky explains the context
of how different music styles came to be. Aware of showing the whole scene he
talk not only about musicians but artist, the local people, urban landscapes,
subway systems emphasizing on how private expression is constantly challenging
pubic spaces with things such as graffitists. I fond particularly interesting
the way he linked that ‘Style wars’ of young artists trying to get through the
system by figuring the best place on the subway to place their tags so that it
could be seen by more and more people, creating networks of visual messages and
how this strategy was used by advertisement, were now in subways we have
messages from companies. That is actually rather tricky and upsetting. It makes
me realize that the ‘private expression’ of the messages that are getting
through specially in urban landscapes are those of private companies, that may
contract artists, but actually the artists voice is not getting though, either
the voice of the people, rather that message of buying and engaging people with
companies.
I would like to see further through the talk,
the video was just like the introduction for him to start speaking about what
he specifically does I think and now I am interested. I read a little about his
project in Antarctica
about global warming, sound and hypsographic architecture that’s were the
reading led me and I am curious to read further.
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