Final

For this final project, I decided to combine the GIFs and the Glitch art that we did. Starting this project, I had the concept of having flashing screens on a series of progressively more impressive technologies. I started with the pictures of the CRT computer, the flatscreen computer, the laptop, and the cellphone. The problem now was what should go on the screens; I wanted this final project to have a definite meaning, something that someone could look at and think about. I came up with “war” as the theme, because looking at the computers, the realization that the while technology advances, and our lives get better and easier because of it, war doesn’t stop being what it is. Conveniently, there were 4 wars/conflicts that America has taken part in since the computer was introduced to the world. Images of WW2, that I glitched out to make only barely recognizable, flash across the CRT. Images of the Korean War, which were also glitched, appear on the flatscreeen, while broken images of the Vietnam War occupy the laptop. For the cell phone, I chose the Operation Desert Shield/Storm, the most recent armed conflict that has been completely separate from the ones to come after. While the Iraq War did happen afterwards, it was difficult to find a place where the Iraq War didn’t co-exist with multiple other conflicts in the same region.