Hatsune Miku

Hatsune Miku is a singing synthesizer with a female voice. This synthesizer may just be a fake voice placed against music, but it has exploded. Individuals actually paying to see hologram projections of an animated female singer is ridiculous. I don't understand how anyone in their right mind would want to watch something so synthetic and dumb. People paying money to see an animated singer live is insane.

Propaganda vs. Advertising

Propaganda is a form of communication that is focused on influencing individuals. Advertising is a form of communication aimed at marketing and is used to persuade. Advertising and Propaganda are easily confused, however Propaganda is associated with tyrants and dictators. Countries like North Korea used excessive amounts of Propaganda to keep their civilians in the dark about the rest of the world and remain completely under the governments control. Advertising is used to sell products and is huge in the United States. The difference is that Advertising is not used to influence, it is used to sell.

Flash Mobs and Eva and Adele

Eva and Adele are an artistic group who claims they landed in Berlin after the wall fell. Neither of them have disclosed their real name or age. They extremely eccentric and oddball. They dress completely identical with dresses, bald heads, and make up. Since they met they vowed to never spend a night without each other and never allow visitors if they're not in full body make up. Eva argues that although her body is the body of a male, her soul is that of a woman. After various meetings with a judge, the judge issued a new birth certificate for Eva saying she was born a girl.

Iconoclast

Iconoclasts destroy religious icons through religious or political motives. Orlan was an advocate of this when she dressed as St. Theresa. She destroys the icon by showing her breasts and creating sexual positions with her body. Her feminist undertones are completely exemplified through the pictures where she is exposing her breast. 

Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys was a German Fluxus artist who worked with concepts relating to philosophy and humanism. His career was full of debate on whether or not he was a brilliant artist. However, today he is recognized as one of the most influential artists of all time. Beuys was a huge advocate of social sculpture, a phrase he coined explaining that the entire world was a canvas for art. One of Beuys projects in the field of social sculpture was planting 7,000 Oak trees in Germany.

Video Art

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Performance Art