Ian Bunn | Political & Popular Culture Arts

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, known by her stage name Lady Gaga, the 25 year old US pop singer songwriter diva has become the first person with more than 10 million Twitter followers on the micro blogging service. Lady Gaga’s response on Twitter to her followers was “10 Million Monsters! I’m speechless, we did it! It’s an illness how I love you”. The monster being a reference to her enormously successful world tour named “The Monster Ball tour”. Justin Bieber another pop singer closely follows Gaga with nearly 9.7mil followers on Twitter, and President Obama third with 8mil. Britney Spears another pop singer follows next with 7.8mil and US television personality Kim Kardashian close fifth with 7.5mil. Gaga has the number one spot on the Forbes annual list of most powerful celebrities.

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What are you going to do about it (October 21st)

Justin Bieber aged 16 the tween heart throb singer is being investigated over an assault on a 12 year old boy while playing laser tag in British Colombia Canada where he allegedly retaliated to taunts, cornering the boy and hitting him. Bieber denied the alleged assault, saying he accidentally touched the boy’s face following an incident where the 12 year old harassed Bieber by targeting him continuously during the course of the game. In frustration Bieber told the boy to cease who in turn responded “What are you going to do about it, faggot?” No charges are likely to be made according to police investigating.

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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