Chapter 1 - Discuss both past current artists and works

Over the past few weeks I have been watching some old and some new experimental videos. Al tough these pieces where made several years apart there are still many similarities, they also have some differences. For example Andy Huang's 'Dollface (1998' is all computer animated and John Smith's 'Girl chewing gum (1976)' is filmed out in a street with real people / surroundings. One of the big similarities between the two videos is 'lies', In 'Dollface' the TV Screen is lying to the robotic face about what real beauty, and in 'Girl chewing gum' The narrator is lying to the audience about who and where he is. Another similarity between the two pieces, is that they both show how people react to the media i.e video cameras and stuff shown on the television. For example in 'Girl chewing gum' different people are reacting differently, when they notice that they are being filmed i.e Waving, staring or hiding their faces; in 'Dollface' The robotic face is reacting to the images she sees on the TV screen, by trying to copy the faces that she sees.

Obviously one of the main differences is that, 'Dollface'is computer animated and 'Girl chewing gum' is real life with real people. The reactions on 'Girl chewing gum' are real reactions by real people, in 'Dollface' it is robot showing reactions that the creater of the film wants to show.