In response to the photomontage approaches to socio-political commentary adopted by Dada artists like Dora Maar and contemporary artists such as Martha Rosler and Peter Kennard, we were challenged to create a digital collage about current issues.
Recently, a long-time YouTube creator known as Onision has been the subject of a Chris Hansen documentary titled Onision: In Real Life, aiming to expose his manipulative, predatory and otherwise legally questionable behaviour throughout his online presence. However, despite hope from commentators who had been uncovering this story for years, the documentary is a blatant money-grab and provides no real justice for the abuse/grooming allegations backed up by a multitude of evidence, barely acknowledging the tireless work of the YouTube community. All in all, Hansen did not deliver on his promises, instead exploiting the victims' stories. Here is a video by Strange Aeons about the situation for further context:
This inspired my collage response - I used images of Chris Hansen, Onision, the YouTube logo, a money pile, "stonks" meme and Jesus iconography to express the community's outrage and disappointment at this production, something completely undeserving of being called an "investigation". I also snipped article headlines on the topic, then colour graded everything and added paper texture overlays to look anachronistically aged, like a printed Dada-era newspaper.
Good to get a better understanding of your context as I interpreted the collage as the wealth Greg Jackson made from his controversial Youtube channel. Now the Christlike figure makes sense as a self promoting image of Hansen. This is a well crafted collage, clever use of shadows and colour palette, good composition and use of photoshop. I now know a little more about the youtuber community as well. Strong piece of work Milo.
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