Modern Times
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The original “Modern Times” featured Charlie Chaplin dealing with mans relationship with technology in the industrial age. This new work looks at our relationships in the age of Information and where it is taking us. Using imagery from brochures provided by the Department of Homeland Security, the animation looks at the fears we deal with in our everyday lives as opposed to the terror the government would prefer we concentrate on. It is not only a discussion of fear, but the effects these emotions have on us and how these ideas are transmitted. This type of iconography is used in very polar situations. Often we see warnings with simplified bodies being harmed as a consequence of not following the rules. These illustrations evoke fear without being real or graphic. On the other hand, in documents such as airplane brochures, the same simplified pictures show a complete lack of fear and are used to make one feel safe and to reduce fear and anxiety. The flat, sterile and unemotional disconnect from what is happening mirrors the way we increasingly react to the world around us. Sensation and overabundance bring apathy, people and the body are reduced to commodities, and the individual continues to recede into the white noise.
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