Proposal

Theme: My project will focus on the popularity of information technology and electronic devices, and how they converge with and diverge from modern art.

Meaning: People nowadays cannot live without cell phones, computers and internet. The popularity of information technology has become a great phenomenon in the 21^st century. I want to record this phenomenon, and show the audience how our everyday life can relate to those artworks which seem to be remote from us.

Inspiration: I was inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s work L.H.O.O.Q. (see below), which first brought up the theme of gender reversal. I probably will borrow some modern artworks as Duchamp did in this work, but my theme would be technology instead of gender reversal.

Approach: I will present to the audience the rapid development of technologies through the “readymade.” In other words, I will mainly create my project by revising or assisting some of the modern artworks and endow them with the concept of “technology.” I come up with several possible ways to do this.

First, I may remix some modern artworks with technological elements nowadays such as Internet, phones and machine language. I may use software such as Photoshop to produce my remix by directly adding elements to the original artwork.

Second, I may photograph scenes in daily life those resemble certain modern artworks yet still contain elements of information technology. For example, I would probably take a photo of the screen of a shut down computer and name it “Black Square.”

Form: My project will in the form of a collection of photos and pictures, and each of them will be a remix of modern artwork and technologies.