Good afternoon, my name is David Gonzalez, I am a student at NJCU, and I am going for My bachelor's in supply chain management. On my workdays I am a coordinator with 4 years of experience in the logistics industry with a vast knowledge transportation and business. On my off days I am a gym rat, I like to push my body to be better of mind and in body. Recently I got into swimming and doing something extra other than the gym. If you're wondering about the money in my photo, that was from my tour to the United States Virgin Islands in the Carribean. I think she was eating a tangerine that day.
Understanding Patriarchy by bell hooks
"At church they had learned that God created man to rule the world and everything in it and that it was the work of women to help men perform these tasks, to obey, and to always assume a subordinate role in relation to a powerful man."
I always thought it was weird when God creating man to take over the world was more or less the point of him putting Adam in charge of Eden, but then he created woman who was different from men, with the unfair advantage in terms of strength and power and being told to obey and preform.
"I announced my desire to play and was told by my brother that “girls did not play with marbles,” that it was a boy’s game."
Personally, I never played with marbles as a kid, but it sounds innocent enough to be inviting both boys and girls, and a lot of games are like that as well.
What Memes Owe to Art History | Artsy
“Memes are essentially 100 years of text art boiled down into your feed,” said Professor Darren Wershler, research chair at Concordia University, who argues that memes are a type of “everyday Conceptualism.”
My thoughts on this are, yes, Memes are just boiled down media to fit our view and our culture of entertainment. From back in the past, some memes were used to discriminate or demonstrate though art on a newspaper.
"like performance art of the ’60s, memes resist today’s norm-culture. Tereza Ruller, The Rodina co-founder, described the concept of the “democratized surface,” in which design becomes an interactive, two-way mirror held up to society at large."
I can detest to the fact that memes, even innocent ones can have a dark background and story lying underneath that we wouldn't know about till years later.
Memes Are Our Generation's Protest Art | VICE
“You can express yourself with one picture of a meme better than a whole page of text,” Alan Schaaf, the CEO of image-hosting site Imgur, told VICE. “They’re easy to create, reuse, and remix. And what makes them works so well is that they’re so relatable. They make us laugh but have the ability to connect us around a common feeling.”
As most arts and poets express an entire story with one canvas or one verse sentence, a meme, a good one, can get a thought or an idea out in public in a heartbeat. Some I can find funny and some I can find relatable.
"These weren’t just jokes, but a way to name and call attention to a kind of racism that was rarely talked about."
I can safely say memes, internet, media, can bring about the worst in people without any repercussions, especially if it's a stigma or a stereotype that everyone agrees with but keeps hidden.
Martha Rosler Cleaning the Drapes
This is a warzone behind what seems to be behind a curtain used in a suburban home. The reason this stuck me is because the artist acknowledged how big the Vietnam war had gotten, and it was not just thousands of miles away, its outside affect the generations present at the time. This is an activist artwork because it ties the destruction and violence abroad the home of America by televising it the first time on tv. "War was brought home."
WHY ARTISTIC ACTIVISM? | Center for Artistic Activism
"Artistic Activism is a practice aimed at generating Æffect: emotionally resonant experiences that lead to measurable shifts in power."
This struck me as the whole purpose of a being an activist is to rally an idea and this sums up how it can be done.
"Creating and sustaining lasting change demands a change in values, beliefs and patterns of behavior, that is: cultural change."
For things to change ideas have to be made for actions to take place, and then actions become behavioral changes, then it becomes cultural change. For art, it is an idea that can be taken either lightly or drastically.
An Introduction to Activist Art | The Collector | by Stefanie Graf
"activist art often creates a dialogue and forces people to think about these problems."
Thinking about problem that might not be visible has always been a problem, until someone points it out then people start thinking. To me this is a good way to wake people up on such topics.
With the apparent message calling for flowers instead of violence, the work has often been interpreted as a call for peace.
Even as activist we don't want to promote violence, as Banksy tries to do here. We want political change, but not so it destroys people's lives. It shows activists have morals they should not cross and if they are crossed, we want it to stop.
The 25 Most Influential Works of American Protest Art Since World War IIThe New York Times Style Magazine
"His scratchy drawings were relentlessly ferocious and often macabre, sometimes depicting decapitation and amputation, tools of religious dictatorships."Sometimes, when things are really bad, activist artists really need to spell out and uncensored drawings to show how wrong and how dire a situation is.
His sewn-up mouth became a recurring image in his art and activism, a gesture that took the slogan “Silence = Death,”
No matter how morally, ethically, or even logically right an idea is, artists are often silenced to not show their opinion or standpoint to rally an idea of change, this is the risk to being an activist.
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