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.

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