After contemplating the various pieces included in the Broadcast show. My favorites were the Chris Burden commercials. Burden approached local TV stations, declaring that he represented a company called Chris Burden and wished to buy commercial time slots to promote his company's product (which was himself). The commercials took the form of plays on political advertising.
The idea of the witty, satiric content of the pieces, played to a mass audience, made them my personal favorites.
These pieces subverted the notion of broadcast commercial advertising by selling the artist himself as a product- a notion that seems to get funnier every year...
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Soundscape- i'm lovin it
For several years I have been fascinated with MacDonald's as both a corporate entity and its role as a restaurant which provides fast food in a social setting. This piece takes into account the main idea of MacDonald's- the fact that you can travel across time and distance to almost any MacDonald's and essentially consume the same thing. It contains various sounds recorded inside the restaurant.
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