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Wed, 29 Mar 2006
Britney Spears Birthing Sculpture by Daniel Edwards
Louise Bourgeois said that "art is manipulation"...if that is the case then this has to be one of the finest manipulations of pop culture, politics and mass media I have seen in a good while.
Daniel Edwards has capitalized on the polarization of the abortion issue to generate huge pre$$ and controver$y around his latest $culpture. His playful sense of humor shines with the concept of a Pro-Life sculpture of Britney Spears complete with baby Sean Preston peeking out the posterior end of the pop diva.
Spears is the subject of art, the inspiration for Daniel Edwards' sculpture, "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston," and soon to be on display at the Capla Kesting Fine Art Gallery in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. The gallery is hiring extra security guards for the free exhibit opening April 7 and running two weeks.
"This is a new take on pro-life," said Edwards, whose life-size sculpture will appear at the gallery next to a display case filled with pro-life materials. "Pro-lifers normally promote bloody images of abortion. This is the image of birth." An appropriate location for permanent installation of “Monument to Pro-Life” by Mother’s Day is being sought by the gallery.
When asked whether he's pro-life, Edwards(a Democrat) said, "You nailed me. I'm not saying that I am. I wouldn't march with either pro-life or pro-choice advocates. This is not meant to be political." Edwards is obviously kidding with that last sentence.
When asked why he creates art that generates publicity for him by piggybacking on subjects hyped in the media, Edwards said: "You're bombarded with these stories. And there's a thread that winds back to the art. That's not a bad thing. People are interested in these topics, and it works for art as well."
The sculpture shows Brit naked and pregnant, crouching face-down on a bear rug as the baby's head appears at her opposite end. When some bloggers heard about the exhibit, the gallery received about 3,000 e-mails from around the world, split between pro-choice and pro-life opinions.
The pro-choicers don't like it, but neither do the pro-lifers..."We also got calls from Tokyo, England, France. Some people are upset that Britney is being used for this subject matter," said gallery co-owner David Kesting. "Others who are pro-life thought this was degrading to their movement. And some pro-choice people were upset that this is a pro-life monument."
"It's not in my taste," said Jeanne Head, president of the Manhattan Right to Life Committee, which Mr. Edwards contacted to obtain anti-abortion literature.
Edwards has even managed to irk PETA. "We're a little confused by the mixed message of a pro-life statue depicting the skin of a dead animal being used as a birthing mat," said Bruce Wieland, spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Monitors from hell
The GigaPixel Project from the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at
Virginia Tech is building 24 monitor (linux cluster) configurations running at insanely high resolution like 10240x3072.
Below is one of the abstracts from their web site...with a few comments added by me.
Abstract:
Tiling multiple monitors to increase the amount of screen space has become an area of great interest to researchers(especially researchers who play Quake).
While previous research has shown user performance benefits when using two monitors next to each other,
little research has analyzed whether very large high-resolution displays result in better user performance(frag count?).
We compared user performance time, accuracy(sniper rifle anyone), and mental workload on geospatial search, route tracing, and comparison tasks across one,
twelve (4x3), and twenty-four (8x3) tiled monitor configurations. Additionally, we included display configurations that involved uniformly
curving the twelve and twenty-four monitor displays. Generally, the larger the viewport size the faster users perform(kill). We show that user frustration
is significantly less in the twenty-four monitor condition than the one monitor condition. We also show that
curving displays increases user performance(frag count?).
What all that technical jargon means is that it is now possible to witness first person shooter carnage on a level never experienced by mankind until now as shown in these
videos and pictures from the blog of one of the researchers(Andrew Sabri). How do you get a research job like that one, how cool?
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