Moffet, Goss, Stark, Worden

It was interesting seeing Jean Genet in Chicago because it seemed like a historical documentary, I felt like I was learning facts. The whole time through the video I was trying to figure out whether or not the masks were actually being worn or digitally composited on the subjects. I came to the conclusion that they were indeed wearing the masks.

Even though the subjects were wearing the Jean Genet masks, I couldn't help but wonder who was underneath them. There was a mystery to it, which I actually liked. I think that the masks did a great job of representing Jean Genet's social awkwardness. I do not know if that was their sole intention but that is what came across to me.

We also watched a stranger comes to town by Jacquelin Goss. I remember earlier in the year watching "there there square" which almost all the students in the class I talked to hated it. I didn't mind it so much. I thought it was something new. With this new piece we screened I often found myself really bored. I understand that she was using the characters of World or Warcraft to tell actually pretty serious personal stories but I thought it was a little bit too much. Don't get me wrong it was a great way to integrate digital culture with todays issues but to go as far as to use the characters to tell a story was a little much. I couldn't help but wonder how copyright laws would allow that either, with such a popular game world wide. Her use of the characters did however make them seem like outsides and somewhat reminded me of the masks that were used in Jean Genet goes to Chicago. I much prefer there there square to this video, I think that the integration with 3D was a great way to tell the story of these people but I also think it could of been done without video games just because I think the fact that it was a videogame did not add anything (even though that game is played worldwide, which would help a little), then again its not my creativity that made this. Its Jaquelin's.

More than Meets the eye was long but did get a reaction out of me. At first I didn't understand if he had wrote the lines that he was saying or not. They sounded so creepy but then again a guy in a 70's workout outfit talking at all now days would be creepy. When you find out it was letters and things Jane Fonda had said (after Carl told us) then the video takes on a new light. I like the fact that he is doing her workout video through the whole video. I also like how you also never really see the tv and when you do its not even on.