![]() ![]() Larry Irving, co-founder of The Mobile Alliance for Global Good, wrote, “There is almost no area in which digital technology has not impacted me and my family’s life. There is almost no area in which digital technology has not impacted me and my family’s life. That doesn’t happen because it makes our lives miserable.” It is so useful that in short order it has become an integral part of all of our lives. That, in itself, speaks to the overwhelming ‘value’ of digital technology. No product is made today, no person moves today, nothing is collected, analyzed or communicated without some ‘digital technology’ being an integral part of it. Louis Rossetto, self-proclaimed “troublemaker” and founder and former editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, summed it all up this way: “Digital technology is so broad today as to encompass almost everything. They cited broad changes for the better as the internet revolutionized everything, from the most pressing intellectual and emotional experiences to some of the most prosaic and everyday aspects of existence. ![]() We see apprehension in her eyes.The greatest share of participants in this canvassing said their own experience and their observed experience among friends is that digital life improves many of the dimensions of their work, play and home lives. In her performance video, its silver tendrils eerily ripple when touched by her breath. ![]() “I made the invisible visible,” the artist says of her mask titled “Breath,” a crocheted black balaclava reminiscent of an executioner’s hood. Rothwell’s acquisition for the museum, also in the ICOM show, is by an Irish visual artist who goes by the moniker threadstories. I recalled how claustrophobic it made me feel.” “The idea that a mask would become part of my daily attire brought back traumatic childhood memories. “I was born with asthma and for the first part of my life had to wear a respirator, a big plastic thing welded on my face,” says Sarah Rothwell, curator of modern and contemporary design at the National Museums, Scotland. Some masks resonated deeply with the curators themselves. “I was so happy to find that so banal and despised an object could bring joy and hope,” says Corinne Thépaut-Cabasset, chair of the ICOM costume committee and a research associate at Versailles, who conceived the idea of the multi-museum exhibit. Then there are, dare we say, breathtaking, beautiful objects like the “Butterfly People” mask by Indian designer Rahul Mishra, and the beaded mask by Métis artist Lisa Shepherd. Yet there is room for the wry creation of Toronto designer Helene Clarkson: a happy hour mask with a concealed opening for a straw. Masks in Alaska were and still are created as a means to transfer cultural values and knowledge from one generation to the next.” As Worl writes in her blog, “Indigenous people.have been mask makers for centuries. #FACER CREATOR GLOBE SKIN#The strongest statements are perhaps those reflecting cultural heritage, including a kente cloth mask from Ghana, Chhau dance masks from eastern India, and a salmon skin mask by Tlingit Athabascan artist Crystal Worl of Juneau, Alaska. Unauthorized use is prohibited.Ĭlothing the Pandemic incorporates the many facets of face masks in the Age of Corona, including masks as political messengers-like Black Lives Matter masks, and an anti-authority mask emblazoned with a raised middle finger by Chinese artist-activist Ai Weiwei. ![]()
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