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ASPECT VII Features 10 New Media Artists Redefining Persona and PersonalityBridging reality, fantasy, insanity and duality, ASPECT Volume 7: Personas and Personalities features 10 artists or artist groups working within the realm of identity, with commentary from established new media critics and curators.
Linked by the idea of the persona the pieces examine, redefine, invent and deconstruct self, with perhaps the only constant being the challenging of accepted notions of identity.
Many of the artists and artist groups relinquish a portion of control of the creative process through collaborating with non-artists.
Christian Jankowski's karaoke experiment The Day We Met, considers social and cultural constructs through the media of karaoke video.
In Jill Magid's Evidence Locker the collaborative force and the medium is City-Watch, a system of cameras and police throughout London.
Magid analyzes the creation and erasure of identity, while creating and examining a constructed relationship with the police who film her.
Another piece in which the media is defined by an outside party is the Yesmen's DOW, in which The Yesmen manipulate a number of tactical media sources to perform personality correction on the face of a corrupt industrial company.
The concept of duality and of outside forces influencing the perception of our own and other's identity is embodied by CarianaCarianne's
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