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James Hird the 37 year old former 253 game Essendon Australian Rules Football premiership legend vowed to lead his club to glory when appointed as the new head coach of the club.  After an absence of three years and no coaching experience in the interim his appointment follows the departure of Matthew Knights.  Hird a five time club best and fairest and former club captain has been appointed to a four year contract.  His support panel of specialist coaches will include a number of other great player veterans bringing a new team management to the club. The appointment was announced by the Essendon chairman David Evans.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Commander Mono Jojoy also known as Jorge Briceno of the Colombian FARC rebel insurgency the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia has been killed in a Colombian Government air strike. The US backed crackdown that resulted in the rebel chief’s death occurred in the FARC’s last stronghold in the Macarena region.  His death is believed to have delivered a significant blow to the already weakened guerrilla insurgency after having suffered the loss of other top commanders in recent years including the founder Maneul Marulanda.  Colombia’s fortunes appear to have turned as the guerrillas have been forced into remote areas of mountainous jungles following a long history since the 1960s of kidnappings and cocaine trafficking.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Ed Miliband the 40 year old former Climate Change Minister of the Brown British Labour Government beat his older brother David, the former Foreign Minister by 50.65% to 49.35% to be elected the new leader of the now opposition Labour Party to that of Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government.  Miliband replaces former Prime Minister Gordon Brown after a contest lasting five-months.  His brother David the main competitor had led the contest up until the final days shed tears at the announcement stating afterward, “This is Ed’s day obviously, I’m genuinely delighted for him because if I can’t win then he should lead a the party.”

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Othman the 58 year old head of its Office for Outer Space Affairs (Unoosa) is claimed to be pending announcement by the UN that she will be tasked with coordinating our response to any extraterrestrial alien visit to our planet. The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 dictates the UN is tasked to protect the ‘celestial bodies’ from contamination that may be harmful and to coordinate any response to a ‘first contact’.  The appointment would make her the proverbial ‘take me to your leader person’.   Dr Othman is quoted as stating that ”The continued search for extraterrestrial communication, by several entities, sustains the hope that some day humankind will receive signals from extraterrestrials. When we do, we should have in place a coordinated response that takes into account all the sensitivities related to the subject.”

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Teresa Lewis a 41 year old woman with an IQ of 72 having been considered fit for trial in US state of Virginia and subsequently convicted of a double murder has become the first woman since 1912 to be executed in the state. Lewis who had an adult son and daughter was pronounced dead at 9:13pm (local time) after given a lethal injection at Greensville prison where she had been held in custody. She had pleaded guilty to hiring two men in 2002 to murder her husband and stepson to secure the proceeds from a life-insurance policy. The other two gunmen received life imprisonment sentences while Lewis considered the mastermind of the killings was sentenced to death. Lewis admitted she had left the door of the family trailer open to enable the accomplices to enter and kill her two victims.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Andrew Demetriou the chief executive of the Australian Football League defended the leagues policy on drawn grand finals in the wake of a historical grand final drawn result that left 44 players, coaching staff and 100,016 fans dumbfounded. Demetriou confirmed the replay by the two teams the Collingwood Magpies who had scored 9.14 (68) and the StKilda Saints 10.8 (68) would take place on the following Saturday. Demetriou dismissed any immediate changes to the leagues rules, but confirmed that five minutes of extra time played from each end of the ground would take place in the event of another drawn result in following weeks replay to prevent any possibility of having three grand finals.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Penelope Benson a 23 year old sized14 model from Australia who lives at Kirribilli on the north shore of Sydney, took part in the Milan Fashion Week to become the first Australian plus-size model to do so. Benson was engaged by prestigious designer Elena Miro whose real name is Elena Miroglio, to grace the catwalk in her fashion show at the festival. Miro’s spring/summer 2011 collection was unveiled at an independent show to the Milan Fashion Week’s official program after being excluded. Miro a plus-size fashion designer had been the official opener for the previous five years of the official program. Australian lacks plus-size models due to the limited opportunities available with local magazines, and Benson’s international appearance is a first for the industry.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Pearce Delphin whose Twitter name is @zzap is a 17-year-old Australian schoolboy who lives at home in Melbourne with his parents has admitted exposing a security flaw on the social networking site Twitter. Delphin tweeted a piece of “mouseover” JavaScript code which brought up a pop-up window exposing a vulnerability to the Twitter site. He unwittingly caused a hacker attack to the site when the exposed flaw was then used by hackers to affect thousands of other users, causing havoc on the site for about five hours by sending users to Japanese porn sites and replicating worms before engineers could patch it up. Twitter apologized to its millions of users for the cause of the “mouseover” bug.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the Iranian President gave an hour-long interview on his first day of a visit to the United States.  During the interview he challenged the United States administration to accept that Iran is a big power and has a major role to play in the world. He claimed that “the future belongs to Iran” but insists Iran has no intention to pursue nuclear weapons, claiming Iran only seeks peace and a nuclear-free world. “Having said that, we consider ourselves to be a human force and a cultural power and hence a friend of other nations. We have never sought to dominate others or to violate the rights of any other country,” he said. Ahmadinejad is in the US to attend the annual general assembly of the United Nations.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Fredrik Reinfeldt the Swedish Prime Minister and leader of the ruling four-party coalition of center-right Moderates, Liberals, Centre Party and Christian Democrats held power after winning re-election albeit losing its outright majority.  The re-election is historical in Sweden’s political history as the first time a non-socialist government has been elected to a second term. Sweden has a cradle-to-grave welfare system that emanated from a long history of socialist governance.  The coalition on this occasion won with 49.3% of the vote, the social democrat coalition with the Left and Green Parties with 43.7%, and the extreme  right anti-immigration Sweden Democrats increasing their percentage to 5.7%, winning for the first time parliamentary representation and the balance of power.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Pope Benedict XVI the 83-year-old head of the Roman Catholic Church concluded his visit to the predominantly Anglican Britain, only the second such visit by a catholic pope since 1534 when King Henry VIII renounced the Roman Catholic Church for its failure to annul his marriage.  The previous visit being nearly three decades earlier by John Paul II.  While visiting, the pope met with victims of clerical abuse, issuing an apology to those abused and expressing his sorrow for the “unspeakable crimes.”  He also held an open-air prayer meeting for an estimated 80,000 followers in Hyde Park while an estimated 10,000 demonstrators marched through London to Downing Street condemning the catholic church over its attitude to homosexuality, women’s rights, condom use and child abuse.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

French journalist and television presenter Melissa Theuiau has joined the illustrious ranks of Oprah Winfrey in having her identity stolen by online scam sites for use in bogus advertising.  Presented under the names of Karen and Amy her image is used along side advertisements promoting berry diets, slimming teas and colon cleansing solutions.  The images used without permission imply an endorsement of the products. Products which often make inflated and deceptive claims about their value, and when customers agree to free trials they are unwittingly agreeing to charges for other items on a month to month contract, or agreeing to excessive postage and handling costs.  Around $US30 million has been scammed from consumers last year alone by these sites according to the US Federal Trade Commission.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Akhmed Zakayev the 51 year old exiled Chechen independence leader accused under a Russian warrant of terrorism has been released from custody after being arrested in Poland. Judge Piotr Schab provided a written ruling justifying the release that took account that from 2003 he had been granted asylum in Britain another member state of the European Union.  Zakayev when arrested was attending a three-day congress of exiles from Chechnya being held in Poland.  He is now free to continue his travel intending to continue his attendance at the conference.  There are still seven days for authorities to lodge an appeal  against the court decision.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Toryalai Wesa the governor of Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar was unhurt after a blast from a roadside bomb shattered his vehicle’s windows. Parliamentary elections in Afghanistan have prompted the Taliban into a series of attacks killing nine so far in their attempt to disrupt the crucial poll. The Afghan president Hamid Karzai continues to urge his people to turn out to the poll under the observation of thousands of officials, despite ongoing attacks and deaths in the eastern district of  Nazyan and the northern province of Baghlan.  Voters appeared however to be hesitant to go to polling stations as a result of the attacks.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

The chief executive of the world’s largest miner, Marius Kloppers of Australian based BHP Billiton, called on Australia to take the lead on the climate change debate.  He warned that Australia’s economy would suffer if it did not look beyond coal for alternative sources of energy, particularly given that almost 50% of the Australia’s emissions emanate from Coal-fired power stations.  BHP Billiton derives 8% of its revenue from coal, and is the world’s largest producer of thermal coal. Kloppers stressed the necessity for clarity on carbon emission pricing, recommending a mix of solutions to apply to electricity generators such as a combined carbon tax with a limited emissions trading scheme and land use taxes. Australia’s economy would suffer significantly he claimed if action was not taken to clarify pricing in light of a future global carbon response.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Vice president for justice of the European Commission Viviane Reding, described France’s deportation of 8,300 Romanian’s and Bulgarian’s of Roma origin as a disgrace, threatening legal action from the executive arm of the European Union.  The Roma are commonly referred to as gypsies, often living in informal settlements made up of camps and caravans, usually in poverty and as a result have been targeted throughout history for persecution.  The deportations drew international criticism with the action be likened to the Jewish deportations of the second World War.  The previous year 2009 also resulted in the deportation of 10,000 Roma from France under similar circumstances, with French officials claiming the raids on the camps were as a result of a broader illegal immigration crackdown and not just directed at the Roma.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

The revolving door for the top job in Tokyo remained with current Japanese Prime Minister, the 63 year old Naoto Kan.  Kan unlike his predecessors, managed to retain his job as the Prime Minister and head of the ruling DJP (Democratic Party of Japan) after convincingly defeating his challenger Ichiro Ozawa, the somewhat tainted powerbroker of the party, having been challenged after only three months into the job. Japan has suffered from a lack of consistent policy as a result of the leadership changes, exacerbated particularly at a time when this third largest economy of the world has a strengthening currency while in the context of a deflating economy attempting to support significant issues such as escalating aged population and national public debt that is twice the economy’s size.  Kan has vowed to reduce public spending and borrowing.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Application has been made to the Guinness book of records to have a £111.95 cheese sandwich recognized as the most expensive. The gourmet sandwich created by the chef Martin Blunos, who is a celebrity on UK television. Blunos’ goumet sandwich has been creating attention at the Somerset Frome Cheese Show, through his use of cheddar, 100-year-old balsamic vinegar dressing, blended with white truffles on sourdough bread. The expensive price results from the use of highest quality ingredients, especially the special blended cheddar with white truffles created in a double layer.  Blunos constructed his creation with layered cheese, quail’s egg slices, fresh figs, extra virgin olive oil dressing, heirloom black tomato and epicure apple. Finally garnished with pea shoots, mustard red frills and red amaranth.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Queen maker Rob Oakeshott an independent member of the Australian Parliament has been scorned by a prominent National Party Senator over reports in the local press referring to his earlier attempt to seek a ministerial role in the NSW State Parliament. Oakeshott is on the verge of announcing if he will accept an offer by Prime Minister Julia Gillard to take on a Ministerial role in her new government for regional affairs. Contrary to a warning from Opposition Leader Tony Abbott for opposition members to cease criticizing Ex National Party member Oakeshott, Senator Barnaby Joyce attacked Oakeshott for not being impartial in the negotiations on whom to support in forming a minority government. Joyce claimed shock and outrage existed over Oakeshotts support of Gillard to form a Labor government.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Kara DioGuardi an acclaimed songwriter and judge on the Fox network American Idol television program has confirmed several weeks of speculation in media reports of her departure from the show’s judging panel after two seasons. With the show’s 10th season being planned for early next year, Randy Jackson is the last remaining judge to return back to the show with Ellen DeGeneres and Simon Cowell having also resigned from their judging positions. Judges likely to take up the role with veteran Randy Jackson are Areosmith’s Steven Tyler and singer-actress Jennifer Lopez.  Kara indicated that it was just her time to go, having enjoyed the experience and wishing to continue with her song writing.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

 My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice. 

 Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

 This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

 www.ianbunn.com

Terry Jones a Florida-based pastor of a small church in the United States has called off a planned mass burning of Korans to mark the anniversary of the September 11 al-Qaeda militant attack on the New York World Trade Centre that resulted in the deaths of almost 3000 people.  He claims the event which had received world wide outrage was called off after agreement was reached to relocate a planned Islamic cultural centre and mosque further away from the ‘Ground Zero’ site of the attack.  However the imam of the proposed centre Feisal Abdul Rauf has denied any such agreement has been made, leading to some confusion as to Pastors decision.  The US defense secretary Robert Gates had spoken to the Pastor urging him not to proceed with the Koran burning event due to the likelihood it would endanger lives of troops posted in various foreign countries.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Mark David Chapman the former maintenance worker from Hawaii had been sentenced to life in prison after firing five shots that killed John Lennon outside his Manhattan apartment next to Central Park New York, in December 1980.  Chapman’s life sentence for the shooting murder of the Beatles superstar included the possibility of parole after 20 years incarcerated at the Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York. Now three decades on, Chapman at age 55 has again for the sixth time been denied early release,  Lennon’s widow, the 77 year old Yoko Ono has on each occasion opposed Chapman’s release due to fears that he may be a future threat.  John Lennon would have been aged 70 this year.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy’s planned pension reforms have created much angst with thousands of workers staging a one-day strike across France protesting a plan to increase the retirement age from 60 to 62.  Striking workers from both the public and private sectors protested at over 200 separate demonstrations throughout the nation, including workers from medical, media, finance, education and justice sectors. Sarkozy’s ratings at the polls have taken a dramatic slide with now only a 30 percent approval rating, deemed extremely low for a president.  The poll results indicate a defining moment in his presidency and quest for fundamental pension reform as he heads towards re-election in 2012.  Pension reform is claimed to be necessary due to the financial burden on the system from increasing life expectancy.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Julia Gillard the first female prime minister of Australia has held onto the right to form government albeit as the head of a minority government after independents from both the left and the right decided to back her centrist Labor Party.  After more than a fortnight of suspense, two key remaining independents from the right declared their intention to give Labor their crucial support, resulting in it having secured the necessary number of seats to form government.  The remaining two independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott broke the Australian political deadlock by agreeing to back Gillard in the formation of the Labor minority government.  Gillard was born in Wales in 1961 and migrated to Australia with her parents at the age of four.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Mike Edwards a former cellist and founding member of the 1970s group rock Electric Light Orchestra died while travelling alone in his van near Kingsbridge, South Devon UK. Edwards joined ELO in 1972 with the band reaching stardom with a cover of Roll Over Beethoven.  He was renowned for his eccentric style of playing the Cello and for the bizarre costumes he wore.  Edwards left the band in 1975 to pursue his Buddhist faith, changing his name to Deva Pramada. He was killed when a 600kg cylindrical bale of hay rolled down a hill gathering sufficient momentum to hurtle through a 5 metre hedge bouncing into his path and landing onto his van, killing him instantly.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Britain’s former prime minister Tony Blair was greeted by over 200 noisy protesters, chanting protest slogans “Blair lied, millions died” and “Lock him up for genocide”, throwing objects in his direction including plastic bottles shoes and eggs, although none land near him.  Police made arrests as the protestors surged towards him trying push down a security barrier. Blair was attending the Irish capital Dublin for a public signing session promoting his memoirs.  In his memoir he says he can’t regret the decision he made to declare war on Iraq in 2003, but had not foreseen “nightmare” that was unleashed afterwards. He received a reported book advance of 4.6 million pounds with all the proceeds going to a veterans war charity the Royal British Legion.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

New Zealand’s south island has been struck with a magnitude 7.0 earthquake affecting the country’s second largest city Christchurch early in the morning. Still shaking from aftershocks a state of emergency has been declared with the army preparing to send troops to assist in the Selwyn District and the city, where residents are being evacuated by Authorities. The New Zealand prime minister John Key is visiting the city to assess the damage. While no-one has been killed, two people have been seriously injured there are some reports of looting. Given the level of damage and the severity of the earthquake New Zealanders are extremely lucky there has so far been no reported fatalities to date.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

British scientist Stephen Hawking, the wheelchair-bound physicist having suffered since the age of 21 a motor neurone disease that left him disabled and dependent on a voice synthesizer to communicate, claims the Big Bang was merely the consequence of the law of gravity. “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist” he claims in his new book The Grand Design. Due to a series of developments in physics over the past two decades God appears to no longer have a role in theories on the creation of the Universe, “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going”.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton brought together the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a new round of direct peace talks at the US State Department. Netanyahu from the right-leaning Likud Party had built a career opposing a Palestinian state, which raises an interesting paradox if he is the one to help bring it into being. Perhaps only someone like Netanyahu with hawkish credentials, can bring his people with him to produce a lasting peace. Netanyahu aims to get something important done during his time as Prime Minister, suggesting the talks be kept relatively short to a one-year time frame. Netanyahu has stated “I intend to confound the critics and the skeptics.”

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

The Iranian daily newspaper Kayhan reacted with fury over a statement made by French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, branding her an “Italian prostitute” who “deserves death”. Bruni made a public statement calling for Tehran to release the 43-year-old Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, a mother of two whom an Iranian court has convicted of adultery and sentenced to be stoned to death. Bruni in the past had made no secret of her not being monogamous, resulting in the Iranian press making the statement “Reviewing Carla Bruni’s record clearly shows why this immoral woman has supported an Iranian woman who has committed adultery, has contributed to the murdering of her husband and has been sentenced to death, …In fact, she herself deserves death”.

Political Arts | Ian Bunn Visual Artist

My digital art work is essentially politics and art. It’s about iconic people, places and events of our day.  Recorded visually through daily compilations of manipulated digital images, posted online and disseminated via online media and social networks. The works are diaristic in nature that metaphorically record a spectator’s experience of the contemporary digital age.  The resulting work intentionally has a painterly aesthetic acknowledging my historical painting practice.

Adapting Pop Art’s notion of mass media imagery into a context of the contemporary digital age, the work draws on a myriad points of reference. Utilizing fractured images to provide an allusion to the digital noise pounding away daily into our sub consciousness.  The work is essentially popular culture arts, diverging from the traditional Pop Art notion of a pronounced repetition of a consumer icon, instead this work focuses on the deluge of contemporary digital content. The compilation of the fragmented imagery is vividly distractive, not unlike cable surfing or a jaunt through Times Square.

This digital photo manipulation art work is premised on the basis that Pop art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. With the advent of the techno age, visual information circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  Hence this work considers fragmented elements of Popular Culture through an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of the day.

www.ianbunn.com

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