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      Who’s Watching? A feminist urban video installation

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      Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
      9 - 13 July 2018
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            This paper explores the idea of an individual’s sense of awareness when moving through a specific space. The work entitled: Who’s Watching? is a feminist artwork, an audio/visual, site-specific experience, meant to prompt the individual to acknowledge their true surroundings. This project is intended to foster a discussion on how, in the area of visual arts, the application of performance art and film can increase a discourse on feminism by creating both physically and conceptually interesting and thought provoking perspectives. Looking at society today, there are two types of gaze, the male gaze and the female gaze. According to John Berger, the male and female gazes can be simplified so that men act and women appear (Berger 2008). The man’s sole purpose is to give an impression of power to others. The female gaze, however, is not necessarily in her control. A woman’s presence is apparent in everything she does, how she carries herself, her voice, her gestures, her clothes and her chosen surroundings.

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            Conference
            July 2018
            July 2018
            : 130-131
            Affiliations
            [0001]University of Applied Sciences Europe

            Berlin, Germany
            [0002]Hamburg University of Applied Sciences

            Hamburg, Germany
            Article
            10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.27
            c5d49496-3fea-43fd-bf4c-185923567038
            © Smolin et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA London 2018, UK

            This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

            Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
            EVA
            London, UK
            9 - 13 July 2018
            Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)
            Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
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            1477-9358 BCS Learning & Development

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            Electronic Workshops in Computing

            Applied computer science,Computer science,Security & Cryptology,Graphics & Multimedia design,General computer science,Human-computer-interaction

            REFERENCES

            1. 2008 Ways of Seeing Penguin Books London

            2. 2017 #MeToo has reached the art world. Don’t think it’s running out of steam The Guardian 26 December 2017 http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/06/metoo-art-new-york-metropolitan-museum-art-balthus (retrieved 26 March 2018 )

            3. 2009 Ecologies of Self-Display Media Arts Cultures http://pl02.donau-uni.ac.at/jspui/bitstream/10002/618/1/selfdisplay1.pdf (retrieved 26 March 2018 )

            4. 2018 Judy Chicago Artist Overview and Analysis TheArtStory.org http://www.theartstory.org/artist-chicago-judy.htm (retrieved 26 March 2018 )

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