Sondra Perry developed the idea for her piece Young Women Sitting and Standing and Talking and Stuff from her interest in using digital imagery to show "slippages of identity". That's about all that I was able to find regarding this piece, background wise. The performance piece lasted for two hours, with three young women (each with a screen showing a pair of eyes looking upwards on top of their own) conversing idly. I think it's very fitting that the eyes are the element of the face that Perry has chosen; eyes show so much about people. Something I don't like about the performance piece is that the digital eyes on each woman's face give their countenances a look of exasperation and disinterest. I see this as Perry making a statement about women - that they don't care. However, I could also picture this piece being representative of how many people perceive young women, and not necessarily suggestive of how women actually are. It's certainly a creative piece, and very intriguing to observe and think about.
Ryoji Ikeda's Test Pattern
On the artist's web site, it's stated that the piece "aims to examine the relationship between critical points of device performance and the threshold of human perception." Flashing the barcodes of the digital elements in daily life is an interesting choice. To me, it seems that the artist is saying "today, you'll experience life in a different medium." The effect of the black and white colors and the rapid movement of the barcodes is quite disorienting. I think Ikeda is using this disorienting feeling make a point about the amount of digital data a person in this society deals with on a daily basis. Perhaps he's supplying a warning for the future - because sure, it looks really cool, but too much of that dizzying feeling leads to worse things. I also really like what Ikeda has done with the music; it somehow makes the speed feel even faster and more intense.
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