9/11/16 Idea summary (so far)

• Started my visual proposal 
• Did more research on North Korea & their government
• Looked at existing installation pieces
• Looked at vegan protests - branding themselves to show animal cruelty http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3807626/Vegan-protesters-BRANDED-red-hot-irons-extreme-demonstration-demanding-end-meat-industry-France.html

• Credit card numbers/ Are we controlled by our money?
• Does money = identity?
• Do we buy our identity?
• JUSTIN BOWER - lots of inspo

Idea Summary:

I want to create an art installation piece, asking the question 'Does the government control our identities?'. I would like to use 3 screens or maybe old computer monitors, showing 3 people that have been stripped of their identity and replaced with numbers, as if they are just numbers in the system. I would like their expressions to be blank and the colours very bland. I'm thinking of projecting codes/numbers across their faces, or in the background, using layers. 

Another idea I've had is to start with people black balaclavas on, with serial numbers on (see Black Mirror- White Bear). I want the people to rip the balaclavas off and reveal their true 'identities', with very angry and powerful expressions. As if they were about to revolt. 

I want my piece to be simple but powerful, portraying a very strong message. I think my piece belongs in expanded media because I want to use mixed media to create it. I.e Still images, TV/computer monitors & projectors.

I want to create a piece that shows people taking back their identities (revolution).