Ian Bunn | Political & Popular Culture Arts

Cameron Howard Winklevoss the 30 year old identical twin brother to Tyler, both Olympian rowers who sued and reached a settlement with the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, for copying their company’s ConnectU intellectual idea and using the source code Zuckerberg had been hired to develop for them. Winklevoss agreed to a settlement valued at $65 million, but now argues he was duped in the settlement as to the number of shares he should have received and recommenced litigation to challenge the valuations. However the appeals court held that Winklevoss was a sophisticated negotiator aided by a team of lawyers, and that at some point the litigation must come to an end, with that point having now been reached.

Inspired by Amit Chowdhry ow.ly/4Dc9K image source Pulse2 ow.ly/4Dcaz

Wired together a twelfth of humanity (December 20th)

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.

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