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Registration Type:	Artist
Artist / Group Name:	Chris Coleman
City:	Denver
State:	CO
Country:	USA
Website:	www.digitalcoleman.com

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Online Status	OFFLINE
Member Since	04-28-06 12:11:07
Last Online	02-17-10 14:34:04
Last Updated	07-25-08 12:33:08

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Title of Submission 1:	Modern Times
Author of Title 1:	Chris Coleman
Title 1 Publication Date:	12-29-04
Title 1 lenght:	3 min.
Title 1 Description:	The original movie, “Modern Times,” featured Charlie Chaplin struggling to deal with man’s relationship to technology in the Industrial Age. We have now moved into the Age of Information in which our connection to the world around us is not only defined by technology, but the information it does or does not provide. This video examines the issues we cope with regularly such as racism, surveillance, and apathy by using imagery from specific safety brochures. These pamphlets about terrorism readiness, provided by the Department of Homeland Security, are part of a larger system designed to promote meta-fears like terrorism that serve to distract people from their everyday concerns. This animation discusses the effects of fear, apathy, and isolation, and how they are transmitted and utilized for control. The iconography seen in this video is used in very polar situations: often we see warnings with simplified bodies being harmed as a consequence of not following the rules. These illustrations evoke fear without being real or graphic. In contrast, the same simplified pictures in airplane brochures show a complete lack of alarm and are used to make one feel safe and to reduce fear and anxiety. In this animation, the flat, sterile and unemotional style mirrors the ways in which we increasingly react to the world around us. Sensation and overabundance bring apathy. People and the body become commodities. The individual continues to recede into the white noise.
Title 1 Keywords:	animation political experimental fear

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Magnitude of the Continental Divides

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Experiment with Roots #2

Modern Times

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Christopher Borkowski	Created On: 07-25-08 11:58:01 hey what's up ?
Jennifer Jacobs	Created On: 10-10-07 17:53:40 Thanks for your support. It means a lot.
Perpetual Art Machine	Created On: 01-31-07 20:38:02 First ever [PAM] Viral Video Awards. Web vote only. See the rules here. http://www.perpetualartmachine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=218&Itemid=40
Aaron Miller	Created On: 01-25-07 11:43:17 What up? Thanks for the connection. Are you coming to B-lo anytime soon???
Christopher Borkowski	Created On: 01-15-07 17:28:33 Edited By Christopher Borkowski On: 01-15-07 17:32:31 what's up killa ? I have not heard from you in a LONG TIME - but seeing as how we go back I put your work in a couple of shows in Miami last month. One was called "best of the best" which was the opening for the whole Scope Miami shin-dig-....the other was called "rules of engagement" which was diriving around shout beach...see the photo here Feedback from Christopher Coleman: im busy doing crap like applications...I noticed your generosity showing my stuff...you rock.
Perpetual Art Machine	Created On: 01-15-07 16:18:49 Dude ! Where are you ? Feedback from Christopher Coleman: i am sitting here in front of my computer... we need a chat room, not miles of comments i think...we can have virtual online parties