Spoil

Early in 2003, I decided to explore in more detail my responses to mass corporate media. I gathered a series of digital photos that I took of the news broadcasts on television and created a Flash animation. This animation, titled spoil, was a response to the US led invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.

This was mainly an experiment with sound, as I had not played with layering audio bytes in web-based animation in any detail before this point. The sound, gathered from a free audio download site, and attached to layers in the animation, was eerie and provoked feelings of confusion and alienation.

After my experience at Woomera in 2001, I fully understood the capacity of corporate media to twist a story to fit a preconceived agenda.

The decision to use images gathered from TV news was an attempt to reinterpret and reclaim the images to construct a narrative that made sense to me as a viewer and receptor of this information.