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The first artist I decided to look at for this class is Christopher Baker. He is an artist that focuses mainly on a "rich collection of social, technological and ideological networks present in the urban landscape" (christopherbaker.net/biocv/). He has presented his artwork all around the world.

I specifically decided to look at one of his videos from 2008, titled "Hello World! Or: How I Learned To Stop Listening and Love Noise." It is a short two minute video showing over 5000 video diaries on a big screen. The project, according to Baker, "is a meditation on the contemporary plight of democratic, participative media and the fundamental human desire to be heard." Here is the video below:

Although this video is short, the videos and the music in the background really makes the viewer connect and feel for what the artist is aiming for. What I believe he is trying to do is try and tell the viewer that we humans never really stop to listen, we just hear things. Sure, the title says "How I Learned to Stop Listening and Love the Noise,"the noise just makes the viewer feel as if they are drowning out things that they don't want to hear.