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May 2013 ISSUE now from Amazon.

Spinning Pop is an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of our contemporary time and culture.
The digital photo manipulated work is premised on the belief that Pop Art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. Visual information now circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.
The use of video production for exhibiting the work enables the individual images to become fragmented elements of the global popular culture over a time line.
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.
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.

Spinning Pop is an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of our contemporary time and culture. The digital photo manipulated work is premised on the belief that Pop Art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. Visual information now circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  The use of video production for exhibiting the work enables the individual images to become fragmented elements of the global popular culture over a time line.  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.   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.

April 2013 ISSUE now from Amazon.

Spinning Pop is an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of our contemporary time and culture.
The digital photo manipulated work is premised on the belief that Pop Art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. Visual information now circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.
The use of video production for exhibiting the work enables the individual images to become fragmented elements of the global popular culture over a time line.
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.
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.

Spinning Pop is an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of our contemporary time and culture. The digital photo manipulated work is premised on the belief that Pop Art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. Visual information now circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  The use of video production for exhibiting the work enables the individual images to become fragmented elements of the global popular culture over a time line.  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.   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.

March 2013 ISSUE now from Amazon.

Spinning Pop is an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of our contemporary time and culture.
The digital photo manipulated work is premised on the belief that Pop Art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. Visual information now circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.
The use of video production for exhibiting the work enables the individual images to become fragmented elements of the global popular culture over a time line.
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.
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.

 

Spinning Pop is an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of our contemporary time and culture. The digital photo manipulated work is premised on the belief that Pop Art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. Visual information now circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.  The use of video production for exhibiting the work enables the individual images to become fragmented elements of the global popular culture over a time line.  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.   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.

February 2013 ISSUE now from Amazon.

Spinning Pop is an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of our contemporary time and culture.
The digital photo manipulated work is premised on the belief that Pop Art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. Visual information now circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.
The use of video production for exhibiting the work enables the individual images to become fragmented elements of the global popular culture over a time line.
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.
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.

 

1301 Screen Shot

January 2013 ISSUE now from Amazon.

Spinning Pop is an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of our contemporary time and culture.
The digital photo manipulated work is premised on the belief that Pop Art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. Visual information now circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.
The use of video production for exhibiting the work enables the individual images to become fragmented elements of the global popular culture over a time line.
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.
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.

 

December Screen Shot 2013

December 2012 ISSUE now from Amazon.

Spinning Pop is an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of our contemporary time and culture.
The digital photo manipulated work is premised on the belief that Pop Art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. Visual information now circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.
The use of video production for exhibiting the work enables the individual images to become fragmented elements of the global popular culture over a time line.
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.
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.

November 2012 ISSUE now from Amazon.

Spinning Pop is an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of our contemporary time and culture.
The digital photo manipulated work is premised on the belief that Pop Art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. Visual information now circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.
The use of video production for exhibiting the work enables the individual images to become fragmented elements of the global popular culture over a time line.
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.
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.

October 2012 ISSUE now from Amazon.

Spinning Pop is an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of our contemporary time and culture.
The digital photo manipulated work is premised on the belief that Pop Art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. Visual information now circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.
The use of video production for exhibiting the work enables the individual images to become fragmented elements of the global popular culture over a time line.
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.
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.

September 2012 ISSUE now from Amazon.

Spinning Pop is an artistic and conceptual exploration of specific people and events of our contemporary time and culture.
The digital photo manipulated work is premised on the belief that Pop Art in its beginnings, freeze-framed what consumers of popular culture experienced into iconic visual abstractions. Visual information now circulates in such quantities, so rapidly and exponentially, that to comprehend a fraction of it all becomes a kind of production process in itself.
The use of video production for exhibiting the work enables the individual images to become fragmented elements of the global popular culture over a time line.
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.
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.

Reynaldo Dagsa a Filipino politician and member of the Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team Inadvertently took the picture of the killer (January 4 2011)

Reynaldo Dagsa a Filipino politician and member of the Barangay Peacekeeping Action Team, was killed by a gunshot wound to the head in a New Year’s Day shooting assassination while Dagas was taking a photograph of his family outside of his family home.  In the photograph Dagas took moments before the shooting, he inadvertently captured in the frame of the image the faces of his two assassins behind the victim’s smiling family, including the actual shooter braced against a motor vehicle aiming his weapon seconds before the shot being fired. The two assassins were indentified from the photograph after the image was published in a front page piece of a major newspaper.

 

Inspired by ABC news ow.ly/3EzR Image source ow.ly/3EzRv

Jake Beckman an acrylic painter of magical realism and representational abstracts describes herself as a self-realized artist and Renaissance woman Self-realized artist and renaissance woman (January 3 2011)

Jake Beckman an acrylic painter of magical realism and representational abstracts describes herself as a self-realized artist and Renaissance woman. Beckman while renowned for her scratching, scribbling and coloring utilizes a range of other media from sculpture to digital art. While the canvas is where the painterly effects happen, she has a conceived notion from a prolonged process of thought, knowing how the finished painting is going to appear long before the brush touches the canvas. Once Beckman’s thought processes reach this stage through sketching and digital manipulation she comes to action, rapidly applying her preferred medium of fast drying acrylic paints, allowing her to apply multiple layer effects in short bursts.

 

Inspired by Jake Beckman ow.ly/3xhdb

Guy Adams the Los Angeles correspondent for the Independent reckons Oprah is taking a gamble in her exchange of the successful chat show for an entire TV cable channel The launch represents a serious leap of faith (January 2 2011)

Guy Adams the Los Angeles correspondent for the Independent reckons Oprah is taking a gamble in her exchange of the successful chat show for an entire TV cable channel. Winfrey launched at a cost of $400m a dedicated network to her OWN brand, the Oprah Winfrey Network. The TV station went to air with a grand opening from Oprah in what Adams describes as the most important channel launch for a generation, highlighting that never before has a single celebrity in her own image attempted to brand an entire network. Itself a tribute to Oprah’s astonishing success, that a TV host has been able to fund the necessary start up costs. Adams defines Oprah’s brand as a mixture of consumerism, with advice on self-help and how to “live your best life”.

 

Inspired by Guy Adams ow.ly/3x9fU

acob Paul “Jake” Tapper the 41 year old American print and television journalist is currently the senior White House correspondent for ABC News in Washington Dissecting my tweets with Talmudic meticulousness (January 1 2011)

Jacob Paul “Jake” Tapper the 41 year old American print and television journalist is currently the senior White House correspondent for ABC News in Washington, having been appointed to the position in 2008 the day after Barack Obama’s presidential election. Tapper had covered the then-senator’s campaign and during the course of 2010 was the interim anchor of ABC’s This Week. Tapper has revealed himself at a more personal note on his twitter profile, however cautions followers that “Dissecting my tweets with Talmudic meticulousness will result in wrong conclusions. RTs do not = endorsement”. Tapper continues to sub on This Week Sunday announcing interviews pending with George Clooney and John Prendergast about their new high tech Sudan Sentinel satellite project, and the roundtable with George Will, Donna Brazile, Amy Walter and Major Garrett.

Roy Rothschild Neuberger the 107 year old financier, art patron and leading modern art collector has died. Orphaned at 12, he painted and studied art until 1928, then in a career move took on Wall Street just prior to the 1929 stock market crash that he anticipated and survived. Neuberger began his art collection in the 1930s to help support living artists. Neuberger collected works including those from Jackson Pollock, Ben Shahn, Alexander Calder, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, and especially Milton Avery a favorite. Neuberger also donated art works to various institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art along with many college and university museums. The Neuberger Museum of Art was opened in New York during 1974 with a donation of 108 of his collected works.

Inspired by Edward Wyatt @NYTimes http://ow.ly/3uDAP

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

Tamir Pardo the 57 year old soon to be director of the Israeli secret intelligence service Mossad is claimed to be preparing to apologize to UK officials and pledge that fake British documents will no longer be used by Israeli agents in overseas operations. Meir Dagan who is Pardo’s predecessor refused to apologize for the use of forged British passports in an operation against Mahmoud al-Mabhouh a founding member of Hamas’ military wing that led to his assassination. The UK expelled the Israeli Mossad’s station chief from London after concluding that during part of the operation Israel had forged the country’s passports. 33 suspects using British, Irish, French, Australian and German passports were identified by Dubai police, most of whom acquired false passports to gain access to Dubai for the killing before fleeing to places of sanctuary.

Inspired by CNN wire Staff http://ow.ly/3wnWK

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

Stephen Glenn “Steve” Martin the 65 year old actor and comedian renowned for his offbeat absurdist comedy routines has attempted to turn jury duty into a performance art. Tweeting from his Twitter name @SteveMartinToGo, Martin has amused his large following of 380k+ with his observations of the legal processes. Gags included ‘guy I thought was up for murder turns out to be defense attorney. I bet he murdered someone anyway’ and ‘Other jurors are stupid. First, they don’t believe in hexes, plus, they want me to put my magazines away’. It was later revealed that Martin was tweeting from a jury pool and was not actually from a trial jury. However judges regularly granted new trials or overturned verdicts in criminal and civil cases due to jurors’ online activities.

Inspired by the Telegraph News http://ow.ly/3vWBa

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

Jorge Rafael Videla the 85 year old former senior commander in the Argentine Army and de facto President of Argentina has been prosecuted being the main architect of what became known as Argentina’s “Dirty War”. Following the coup d’état that deposed Isabel Martínez de Perón, Videla oversaw large-scale human rights abuses and crimes against humanity that took place under his rule, including kidnappings or forced disappearance, widespread torture and extrajudicial murder of activists, political opponents as well as their families at secret concentration camps. Videla claimed in his defense that Argentine society demanded the crackdown in which up to 30,000 people were tortured or murdered under his military rule, to prevent a Marxist revolution and complained that “terrorists” now run the country. Videla was sentenced to life in a civilian prison.

Inspired by Michael Warren Associated Press http://ow.ly/3vWav

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

Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko the 56 year old former farmer who became the autocratic ruler of Belarus won his ‘re-election’ for a fourth term as the President of the ex-soviet country Belarus, and is often referred to as Europe’s last dictator. Belarus is viewed as a state whose conduct is out of line with international law, and whose regime over its 16 years in power, is considered to have grossly violated human rights.  Lukashenko intends to stay in power indefinitely and sees no reason to change his course, stating the opposition should expect to get hurt when they attack. Lukashenko and other officials are currently the subjects of sanctions imposed by the European Union for human rights violations.

Inspired by Miriam Elder and Luke Harding at Guardian http://ow.ly/3uDlJ

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

Igor Judge the 69 year old Baron Judge who is the Lord Chief Justice and President of the Courts of England and Wales rules in favor of allowing social media conversations in courtrooms decide on a case by case basis as long as it doesn’t interfere with the administration of justice. The use of unobtrusive, handheld, virtually silent piece of modern equipment to text proceedings to the outside world as they unfold in court is unlikely he observed to interfere with the administration of justice. Issuing an interim guidance pending a public consultation involving the judiciary prosecutors, while indicating it may be confined only to court appointed reporters and confirming image and audio recorders remain barred from court rooms.

Inspired by Matt Brian at thenextweb.com http://ow.ly/3uYq7

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

Joseph Robinette “Joe” Biden Jr. the 68 year old Vice President of the United States described WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as being more terrorist than whistleblower, despite struggling to find any US law that has been broken, and in the face of an investigation by the Australian Police that their citizen Assange had not broken any Australian laws. The respected human rights lawyer Kellie Tranter suggests Biden’s comments are utterly unacceptable not the behavior expected of an ally towards one of our own, a reference to the extremely close relationship harbored by Australian politicians to the United States. Biden served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee dealing with issues including civil liberties; and also a former chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.

Inspired by Paula Kruger @abcnews http://ow.ly/3uChT

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

Bradley Manning the 23 year old United States Army soldier who was charged with the unauthorized disclosure of classified information is held in solitary confinement at the Marine Corps Brig, having only one hour outside his cell a day, no access to news and is on a suicide watch. Manning had access to down load material from SIPRNet including the video of the “Collateral Murder” a July 2007 helicopter airstrike in Baghdad, and the 260,000 US government diplomatic cables that had been passed onto WikiLeaks. The United Nations’ office of the special rapporteur on torture based in Geneva, is investigating visitors reports that his mental and physical health was deteriorating as fears grow the US will apply a range of methods, including coercive pressure to extract a confession from Manning that Assange set him up as his agent of supply.

Inspired by Kellie Tranter and Bruce Haigh at @abcnews http://ow.ly/3uBJx

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

Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury a 58 year old senior politician of the Bangladesh opposition has been ordered by a senior judicial magistrate to be shown arrested in a sedition case brought by the police chief Mohammad Mofizuddin for making derogatory comments 12 months earlier about the murder of the acclaimed father of Bangladesh independence (Bangabandhu) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.  The Bangaldesh government has also asked for his arrest on war crimes charges, stemming from murders committed during the 1971 fight for independence and more recently during an opposition-sponsored general strike, to which Chowdhury has denied any involvement. The recently established war crimes tribunal now claims evidence of genocide, rape, arson and looting during the war of independence committed by Chowdhury 40 years earlier.

Inspired by bdnews24.com http://ow.ly/3uB2V

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

Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky the 47 year old Russian businessman, who formerly was the  wealthiest man in Russia and 16th wealthiest man in the world before his wealth evaporate with the collapse of his holding in the Russian petroleum company Yukos, is due for release from prison after serving an eight-year jail term for fraud and tax evasion, which many claim was politically motivated as he had challenged Vladimir Putin by financing the opposition. Khodorkovsky now faces another jail sentence from a second trial believed intended to keep the former tycoon behind bars for as long as possible, stemming from accusations he stole two billion barrels of oil.

Inspired by BBC World News http://ow.ly/3tXC4

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

Hashim Thaci the 42 year old prime minister of Kosovo has been named in a report commissioned by the Council of Europe as the leader of a criminal network operating throughout Kosovo and Albania whose activities included trafficking in organs extracted from Serbian prisoners and kidnapped ethnic Albanians. The criminal network known as the Drencia Group formed when the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) co-founded by Thaci was fighting Serbian forces for control of the territory. The atrocities took place as secret KLA places of detention in northern Albania. Separate from the European Union, the Council of Europe is an organization with 47 member countries having responsibility for the European Court of Human Rights, that seeks to promote democracy and human rights.

Inspired by Doreen Carvajal and Marlise Simons at NYTimes http://ow.ly/3tX5D

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 Zuckerberg the 26 year old founder and chief executive of the social network Facebook has been named for better or for worse the 2010 Person of the year as having done the most to influence the events of the year according to Time magazine. Time made the claim based on his connecting of more than half a billion people, wiring them together to create a twelfth of humanity into a single network, mapping the social relations among them thereby creating a social entity almost twice as large as the US, a system for exchanging information and for changing how we all live our lives. Ironically after only seven years the network is set to be overtaken by the new phenomenon ‘Twitter’.

Inspired by BBC World News http://ow.ly/3rsub

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

Hugh Michael Jackman the 32 year old Australian actor and producer received facial injuries and a hurt back after traveling to fast on a flying fox during the Sydney Oprah Winfrey Show, crashing near the lighting rig and having to be lowered to the stage where he was treated by four paramedics. Jackman admitted later that he hadn’t adequately used the braking device, having been distracted and waving to his dad and kids, then went to apply the brake but in the excitement it was too late. He later returned to the stage with a bandage under his eye. Jackman intended making a dramatic entrance swooping through the air from the top of the Opera House down to the stage.

Inspired by Mark Joyella at Mediaite http://ow.ly/3rsh1

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

Michael Fry a Professor and a cyber security expert has cautioned people assisting the cyber group Anonymous with their operation ‘Payback’, in their use of the software called the Low Orbit Ion Cannon LOIC to attack and bring down the Visa Mastercard and Paypal websites, are getting involved in a guerrilla warfare where their identities are easily traced if not covered up. The LOIC inundates the target server with huge numbers of requests for data which in turn effectively shuts down the websites ability to respond. Fry claims the people who took part are becoming commodities who could have broken laws about abuse of computer facilities, and it wouldn’t be too difficult to establish evidence they were knowingly doing so.

Inspired by Timothy McDonald at ABC news http://ow.ly/3rrXk

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

Gerry Adams the 62 year old Irish republican politician and president of Sinn Féin one of the largest political parties in Northern Ireland has denied being an IRA leader and having advance knowledge of the Northern Bank £26.5 million robbery in Belfast. Adams claims Taoiseach Bertie Ahern the former Irish Premier and leader of the Fianna Fail party made public the allegations for political purposes as an attack on Sinn Fein the party’s electoral rival. Adams denies any historical membership of the IRA Irish Republican Army, stating the claims were not new allegations as he had denied them all before, despite the Irish government allegedly having “rock solid evidence”.

Inspired by Steven McCaffery and David Young at The Independent http://ow.ly/3rrxk

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

Sir Michael Somare the 74 year old prime minister of Papua New Guinea has voluntarily stepped down over allegations relating to personal financial statements with a leadership tribunal set up to evaluate the official misconduct allegations against him. Political turmoil had intensified within the Papua New Guinea government following several key events in recent days, culminating from the country’s supreme court ruling that the governor-general’s election was invalid, and a cabinet reshuffle that ousted Somare’s deputy Don Polye. Polye and his followers are now tipped to join the opposition in a no-confidence motion likely to topple the government at a time when there is no valid governor general.

Inspired by Liam Fox at ABC News http://ow.ly/3rq0s

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

Richard Holbrooke the 69 year old US Special Representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan and former ambassador to the United Nations has died after extensive surgery following a torn aorta. Holbrooke spent the majority of his life in public service and credited for the Dayton Peace Accords which ended the war in Bosnia that had caused the deaths of 200,000 people. During the dark diplomatic period of the Bush years, Holbrooke turned his skill to providing leadership to the Global Business Coalition on Tuberculosis, Malaria and HIV/AIDS. Returning to the diplomatic world stage with the demise of the Neocons Holbrooke dynamically applied his skill to his greatest challenge, an attempt to bring peace to the mess created by the Neocons in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Inspired by Jake Tapper at ABC News http://ow.ly/3rpjz and Michael Elliott at Time http://ow.ly/3rpjp

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

Taymour Abdulwahab the 29 year old Swedish suicide bomber emigrated to Sweden in the early 90’s and obtained citizenship, however he lived a separate life in England, living mostly with his wife and young children in Luton England. Abdulwahab’s bomb belt exploded prematurely as he was heading to his attack destination, believed to be either a rail station or shopping centre, with a larger bomb in his backpack which did not explode. Luton has a significant Muslim community and was at the center of the July05 London MET suicide bombers operation. Abdulwahab apparently became estranged from his local community and mosque when he expressed radical extremist views and was confronted by the mosque committee.

Inspired by Patrick Lannin and Niklas Pollard at Reuters http://ow.ly/3roYk

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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