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The Digital Culture SHIFT: Moving From Scale to Power to Achieve Racial Justice

AREA 1: There were various Speakers present at the Netroots Nation 2016 Keynote plenary “The Digital CultureSHIFT: Moving from Scale to Power to Achieve Racial Justice”. Several speakers had differentiating stances on the issue at bay which regarding who was … Continue reading

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History of Collage and Photomontage: Charlie Hanacek

  I chose the photo collage artist John Turck. He is a contemporary artist based out of New York. He deals exclusively with collages made up of photos. In the work that I chose for this post, Turck has created … Continue reading

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History of Collage and Photomontage: Brandon Bliesner

From what I have read about the method used by this artist, it involved using shapes of cut-and-glued color, and free-floating, painted lines. In this form of abstract expressionism, artists added layers upon layers to create a dimensional feeling in … Continue reading

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History of Collage & Photomontage: Emmalina Krist

Clover Robin is an English artist that uses elements and principles of design to replicate her surroundings while traveling into small collages. On her road trips, Robin presumably does not have access to methods for altering photos digitally, so she … Continue reading

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History of Collage & Photomontage: Milo Larson

The artist, Jiyen Lee, creates mesmerizing digital photographs by repeating and overlapping photos of walkways. This unique style of digital art can confuse the viewer because of the seamless transition between the layers. At first glance, you are unable to … Continue reading

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History of Collage & Photomontage: Deyanira Tovar-Moreno

Randy Grskovic was an artist from Vancouver who released a set of geometric collages. More specifically, Grskovic released a set of geometric collages in which he would use pieces of photographs as his main feature. The photos used in his … Continue reading

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History of Collage and Photomontage: Seth Muck

  When looking through the collages within the class readings, none of them stood out to me in particular at first. I loved Sophie Standings Rhino and was amazed to find it was done with fabrics, but It didn’t feel … Continue reading

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Blog 2: History of Collage & Photomontage – Shawn Stephens

Mathieu Borel takes vintage photos and fractures them, then arranges them in multiple ways to create a single cohesive image. It’s really interesting to me that he is able to take just a single photograph and make it into a … Continue reading

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History of Collage and Photomontage: Wyatt Nevins

Combining the photorealistic with the surreal, German artist Matthias Jung creates portraits through collage. Using a combination of scissors, glue and paper images drawn from architecture and the natural world Jung crafts landscapes that are half reality, half dreamscape. As … Continue reading

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History ofCollage & Photomontage: Bethany Smyth

I chose the artist Laurent Chhre. Laurent Chhre has a series of surrealistic collages of houses floating in the sky, called Flying Houses. Earlier in his collection Chhre’s work is more obvious with people living out their daily lives within the houses … Continue reading

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