{"id":1782,"date":"2014-09-11T10:09:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T08:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.khm.de\/sag\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2014-09-11T10:09:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T08:09:09","slug":"michael-stipe-on-9-11-and-what-followed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/?p=1782","title":{"rendered":"Michael Stipe on 9-11 and what followed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He puts it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2014\/sep\/10\/michael-stipe-rem-douglas-coupland-artwork-haunt-us\" target=\"_blank\">very well<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In my mind I\u2019m seeing unblinking eyes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ARJ8cAGm6JE\" target=\"_blank\">HAL 9000 surveying Dave<\/a> the astronaut; I\u2019m seeing Doug Coupland surveying the 21st-century world; I\u2019m seeing video surveillance everywhere. I\u2019m seeing ourselves watching ourselves and it\u2019s deeply frightening, as a new form of infrastructure that relentlessly monitors and peels back our privacy, our mysteriousness, our individuality, in every way. Do we all need to feel like we\u2019re living in a movie, thousands of unseen cameras invisibly choreographing scenes with our words, our actions, our movements? And are we almost to the point, thanks to the internet, of providing ourselves with our own laugh track? The googly eyes on Coupland\u2019s Osamas lead me to think that one day we will.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The 9-11 <a href=\"http:\/\/danielfariagallery.com\/exhibitions\/douglas-coupland-the-21st-century-continues-part-ii\" target=\"_blank\">pieces by Douglas Coupland<\/a> he talks about are pretty good. Wow, those toy eyes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/09\/Light-Blue-Boogeyman-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"Light-Blue-Boogeyman-1\" width=\"536\" height=\"753\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/09\/Light-Blue-Boogeyman-1-1.jpg 536w, https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2014\/09\/Light-Blue-Boogeyman-1-1-356x500.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He puts it very well. In my mind I\u2019m seeing unblinking eyes: HAL 9000 surveying Dave the astronaut; I\u2019m seeing Doug Coupland surveying the 21st-century world; I\u2019m seeing video surveillance everywhere. I\u2019m seeing ourselves watching ourselves and it\u2019s deeply frightening, as a new form of infrastructure that relentlessly monitors and peels back our privacy, our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-positions-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sag.khm.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}