New Media in Art, 115-123

One artist that was talked about in this section that caught my attention was Mariko Mori. The example image from her video, Miko no Inori, may have been futuristic and sort of out there for 1996, but compared to music videos and other visual performances nowadays it seems right at home. When I saw the pictures and read about Mori's video, I thought of more recent music videos, such as "Break Free" by Ariana Grande. Grande's video from a few years back involved metallic costumes and silver/white wigs as well. This and plenty of others seem to be similar to Mori's original piece. I thought it was interesting that the book said Mori drew inspiration from David Bowie, because I think he inspired so many other people as well with his whole persona that he created for himself as a performer. I know of a couple different artists that draw on Bowie for inspiration, and not all of them are performance artists. The sort of futuristic style that is seen in Mori's video is pretty common because there is so much room to be creative and explore this alternate reality setting. I found this idea really interesting.