I have decided for this artist exploration I would pick a piece of work I really do not like at all. This is what I came up with and I have to say, even thought I have stared at if for a good amount of time, I am really not liking it anymore then I did when I first saw it. This piece entitled Velvet Strike just seems completely hodgepodge. It looks like the artists just took screen shots from a video game and inserted them into an unexciting environment. The images are unexciting and don't seem to have any real purpose in the piece as a whole. There is nothing visually exciting about this piece and it looks as if I child took a stick book and just covered an advertisement in stickers of fire flames. This is how I feel about this piece but this is what the artists had in mind: basically the artists were inspired by both the computer game Counterstrike and the events of September 11th. Artistically exploring the phenomenon of both of these, they developed an interactive site where their viewer could physically insert "graffiti-like" military images from world events into the virtual space of Counterstrike.
I understand the artist's intentions and inspirations behind this piece I just don't think that it was nearly as successful as it could have been. Counterstrike is a very interesting game that involves a lot of military issues. September 11th is also, obviously, an extremely issue-filled historical event where tons of artistic inspiration has been derived. I think the artists intentions to converge these two concepts into a piece their audience could interact with was a good idea, just not executed very well. There are not many visually pleasing characteristics involved in this piece of work despite the heavy content issues involved in it's creation. I think the artists could have a found a much better way to integrate these two ideas and create a piece of work that did not look so juvenile.
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