Media Artefact (Photo Collage)

Media Artefacts Analysis (Angela Fusco)

Our project, The Effect of Music, is portrayed through a collage of various song lyrics. We chose to take on this type of project, since it is a visual representation of emotions one can live while listening to different songs. One lyric may affect someone in a completely different way then it does to someone else. Through different life experiences a person can associate a certain emotion to a song. The planet, in the centre of our project, is to represent how many people can relate to this phenomenon.  We added a heart, a sun and clouds to symbolise the various emotions one can live throughout this experience. As a corky touch, earbuds are hung on our collage; the planet, symbolising every individual, is living its own feelings. We got inspired by different artists, notably collage artists. Kymberly Keeton, known as an independent publisher and art librarian, is one of three people whose work grasped our interest. Raoul Hausmann and Man Ray’s abstract work also got us interested in doing this visual project in a more unconventional way. Marshal McLuhan’s Media Ecology, which is we discussed in class, is closely related to our collage project. He discussed how the medium d that distributes the information determines directly impact the way this person perceives it. For example, through music, many could say that the emotions they feel while listening to a band or singer perform a song live in concert would be completely different than listening to that same song on the metro through their headphones. Although through these two very different mediums, the lyrics of the songs are strong enough to still touch or impact the individual listening. When we take a look at the different fonts, we could see how some of them are digitized and other hand written. When we look at the hand written words, this could show the more personal association to song lyrics. On the other hand, the regular fonts are to show disassociation to the songs. This could represent people that are not as touched by music or simply don’t identify to this type of art. Two different types of print paper were used for our project as well. The planet, at the center of our collage, is printed onto photo paper to give it a realistic look and stand out from the rest, which is onto normal paper.