dis/location: Mapping Black Europe

Quotes

Seeing Power

p. 4 “The intensification of advertising and the rise of television, radios, film, video games, affective labor, music, software, and other content-delivery mediums have slowly-yet radically-altered the entire spectrum through which we understand and perform our daily lives”

               All sorts of media have made a huge impact when it comes to advertising because people are exposed to television, radios, or software; which anybody is able to advertise their products through the media.

p. 24 “Many art activists began to move their causes form the periphery to the center-whether that meant television, radio, film, or electoral politics and policy”

               Activists are now able to express their ideas in the media because media is now everywhere; and this goes well for art activist because they are able to be known to the public.

The Interventionists

p. 119 “With over half the world population now living in urban environment”

               This is true because you see more people that live in urban environment or that go there because that’s where their job is located. This is why urban cities are very populated.

p. 123 “Cyberfeminism is a the heart of the often contradictory contemporary positions of women working with new digital technologies and feminist politics”

               Cyberfeminism are feminists that use technology and are able to use media to express their idea.

Mapping Black Europe 

               In dis/location: Mapping Black Europe we see many artists that are expressing their identity. One is the artist named Jeannette Ehlers her work was video called Black Magic at the White House. In the video she is performing a dance but she is invisible; the dance she is doing is something that has to do with her culture and within that dance she is telling a story. After research the video the house she is in Marienborg and that place has a strong connection on the Danish slave trade.

She is performing a dance in the house but she is invisible

               Another artist is Avantia Damberg she did a video called Nigra Videri in this video she walks around the city however everywhere she goes she is being ignore by people like in the stadium and the train station people do not seem to see her.

She is at  a train station  but she is the only one