Curatorial Project/Interactive/Installation entitled:
You and Everyone We Know Can Participate: Social Media; A New Frontier For Visual Art
Curatorial Statement:
Project/interactive/installation explores the idea of using social media: Facebook to create a “collective artwork” in the fields of language and visual arts—wherein, participation becomes the artwork itself. The collective voice created by participation on Gorman’s Facebook page, expresses both language and visual arts by different people/groups/organizations within different age groups, genders and races
Language in his artistic dialogue: “What noun or adjective best describes freedom to you?” creates a collective call for people to express themselves using language as a type of visual art form, an example of this is found in Gorman’s artwork entitled: “freedom is virginity” which embodies this idea and is the heart of his project/interactive/installation.
Visual arts in his artistic dialogue: invites artists’ to express themselves in one of two ways—create a graphic illustration or short video addressing the question above. A text insert from his Facebook post reads: [If you haven’t yet seen artists’ Connie Hart’s graphic illustration and Fj Kunting’s video for Freedom, you should today!] Both of these artists posted first in the two categories above.
However people choose to express themselves in this technological landscape, language and visual arts play an important role in defining parameters for social media and its audience/participator relationship. On Facebook, people have freedom to express/interact/like with his artistic dialog or decide not to respond to it.
Gorman’s proposal that participation is the artwork itself, points to something much deeper in the social-media-culture: what value does participation or non-participation hold to the viewer, and is this value in and of itself a form of aesthetic, BEAUTY.
Project/interactive/installation explores the idea of using social media: Facebook to create a “collective artwork” in the fields of language and visual arts—wherein, participation becomes the artwork itself. The collective voice created by participation on Gorman’s Facebook page, expresses both language and visual arts by different people/groups/organizations within different age groups, genders and races
Language in his artistic dialogue: “What noun or adjective best describes freedom to you?” creates a collective call for people to express themselves using language as a type of visual art form, an example of this is found in Gorman’s artwork entitled: “freedom is virginity” which embodies this idea and is the heart of his project/interactive/installation.
Visual arts in his artistic dialogue: invites artists’ to express themselves in one of two ways—create a graphic illustration or short video addressing the question above. A text insert from his Facebook post reads: [If you haven’t yet seen artists’ Connie Hart’s graphic illustration and Fj Kunting’s video for Freedom, you should today!] Both of these artists posted first in the two categories above.
However people choose to express themselves in this technological landscape, language and visual arts play an important role in defining parameters for social media and its audience/participator relationship. On Facebook, people have freedom to express/interact/like with his artistic dialog or decide not to respond to it.
Gorman’s proposal that participation is the artwork itself, points to something much deeper in the social-media-culture: what value does participation or non-participation hold to the viewer, and is this value in and of itself a form of aesthetic, BEAUTY.