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Propaganda War Casualty

Propaganda War Casualty (2003) replays the initial moment that we are presented with images that communicate the news of the world.   In this work, news images are re-contextualized and embedded into a structural environment, creating new sets of juxtapositions.    This blitzkrieg of media imagery is seen as having a dehumanizing effect, turning the news consumer into a non-questioning order-following soldier and ultimately a casualty of the propaganda war.

Propaganda War Casualty is a series of pictures taken in a virtual environment. It explores the ramifications of the media barrage that took place immediately after the 9/11 suicide bombing. Many have felt that the powers that be not only dictated how we should feel about this event, but how we should react to it as well. By remixing the media's images in a way that de-familiarizes, this work demonstrates the confusion and bewilderment that was felt as movie-fiction-virtual-reality became reality, and the way in which this rational void was quickly filled by the media machinery.