Laurie Anderson's style helped me think about new media more artistically and also as more of a toy. Her approach to the new technology that was emerging in her time when she was graduating was experimental and considered things very carefully and very closely. It does take a certain amount of patience to understand, if it even can be understood, her work and the level where it is. She mentioned she tries to portray some of the dumbest things she can think of, getting down to the very core of what something is. What technology is.
A very fast paced medium in which people are caught up in and that Laurie Anderson slows them down with. Her art is very rythmic, repitious, enhanced, and a ' technological overkill'. The amount of technology within her art is a technique which slows it down, sets it at a constant. And she mentions again explores the 'silence, which is when your are with someone either awkward or you are in love'. This exploration of different sounds inside the visual brings her into a state of mind very far from the categorical or direct but rather the circular, neverending, and contemplative. Her work reminds me of Lawton's project involving pandora and the video art that he will use.
She does express how she needs to bite her tongue when someone misunderstands her work. She does try to convey a specific meaning to her audience and that isn't a hatred for technology but a different way to 'embrace', and in fact more of an embrace than a 'being subjected to' action.
Her performance art has used a more classic form of sound, the violin, and combined it with a newer foreign visual or sound of techno, or 'digitized', making a stride to connect art with the unfamiliar and in that sense advancing it, and redefining it.
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Using her head as a percussion instrument underscores how she looks for non-monumental commonalities and makes them the basis of her art.
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