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Presidential Campaign Ads

These four presidential campaign videos were created by students in my Media Arts class at Flushing International High School preceding the 2008 presidential election. Assigned both the candidate and a region of the country, students had to research the issues dominant in the area and respond with a video promoting their candidate. Enjoy!

CAVE WOMEN TAKE TIMES SQUARE!

Using satire and humor we dress as cave women and gather in public places to expose the anti-feminist Ice Age politics of the McCain-Palin ticket, and to support Obama-Biden. Ugga, ugga! LET'S EVOLVE! http://www.cavewomenforsarahpalin.blogspot.com/

Rouge

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Red Shoes

In Your Eyes

"The panopticon and the classical spectacle in Debord's sense have given way to an all-encompassing medial infrastructure in which the camera no longer records everyday life but produces it itself as a kind of play or ritual." - John Miller

Capture #2

Capture is documentation of a performance executed by Dillon Paul on May 13, 2006. This solo performance takes place inside an enclosed wooden box with the dimensions of 1.5m (height) x 1.2m (deep) x 1.2m (wide). There is only one aperture through which to see the performance and the mechanism for viewing is to take a photograph using the flash of a digital camera. The images you see are those taken by the audience during the course of the performance.

Capture #2

Capture is documentation of a performance executed by Dillon Paul on May 13, 2006. This solo performance takes place inside an enclosed wooden box measuring 4'x4'x5'. There is only one aperture through which to see the performance and the mechanism for viewing is to take a photograph using the flash of a digital camera. The images you see are those taken by the audience during the course of the performance.

Capture #1

Capture is documentation of a performance executed by Dillon Paul on May 6, 2006. This solo performance takes place inside an enclosed wooden box measuring 4'x4'x5'. There is only one aperture through which to see the performance and the mechanism for viewing is to take a photograph using the flash of a digital camera. The images you see are those taken by the audience during the course of the performance.

Alaska

Alaska is a video installation depicting the slow submersion of a woman under water and her painfully slow emergence. With mesmerizing tranquility, this painterly work is at once peaceful and violent.