Jin Han: New Media in Art

夜路 Walking into the Night MV In tribal societies we are told that it is a familiar reaction, when some hideous event occurs, for some people to say, "How horrible it must be to feel like that," instead of blaming somebody for having done something horrible. This feeling is an aspect of the new mass culture we are moving into — a world of total involvement in which everybody is so profoundly involved with everybody else and in which nobody can really imagine what private guilt can be anymore. - McLuhan, p. 61      Walking into the Night is a song Roger and I thought it should be a traditional Jazz depicting a woman walking on the street at night. The feeling of fear being followed or being gazed is something that women still cannot get rid of in nowadays. There is a kind of freedom that women can hardly enjoy.      However, with writing out the lyrics, I realized that this feeling can be generalized to everyone. We are all under the controls of something else, and it could be

"Weirdcore is an online aesthetics and art centered around amateur or low-quality photography and/or digital graphics that have been constructed or edited to convey feelings of confusion, disorientation, alienation, and nostalgia or anemoia." - Aesthetics Wiki Flickr album: NOTHING is Happening.liminal... Weirdcore photography has a strong connection with another concept, liminal spaces, a location which is a transition between two other locations, or states of being. This makes it feel frozen and slightly unsettling, but also familiar to our minds. The process of making the online album, turming into a photo book, and fnailly putting a photo in the exhibit was interesting and meaningful. It makes me discover something I might not be able to try, and this project provided me an opportunity to get into photographs: what photos can convey and how they would be received differently in various formats.