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.

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