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.

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