Who Watches the Watchmen tasks

1. How does my work fit into these themes?

2. What am I challenging/conforming to within these themes?

3. What does the dominant culture look like for me, and how am I addressing this in my work?

4. What is my privilege and bias - how can I address this in my work?

Even though I am interested in these themes my current practise doesn't fit in with my work as I am not really into political work. However throughout these lectures I have been inspired to consider incorporating these themes into my work and challenging them. The dominant culture has a lot to do with the media, most people are are pretty obsessed with keeping up with what is going on in the media and keeping their best self present online. My privilege and bias would be that I'm a white, British and I could be bias is that I'm female. I can dress this in my work by commenting on how women (all women) are represented/treated in society.

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1. Where is your Paisley park? Is it a physical space? Why do you feel most creative there?

2. Is the internet our 21st century panopticon? Is this necessarily a bad thing?

3. Consider where you post your work online. Who owns the rights to your content, and what is the policy if someone uses your content without credit?

4. Is your digital footprint worrying/useful/unimportant to you?

My paisley park is my bedroom either at home or my room at university as it is a space that I have made my own and feel comfortable there, therefore I feel safe which allows me to be creative. I also get inspired a lot when I've zoned out listening to music as I allow myself to think more freely.

I defiantly think the internet is a modern panopticon and at times it can be a very bad thing, people get stalked and get let go of people as they can so easily look everything up about someone. Also the government watch everything we do online with the Snoopers Charter which a lot of people think is an invasion of privacy.

I post work to Instagram and I own the right to my work once it is posted but I have given them permission to use the photos in different ways. If someone uses are work without crediting us (and we can prove the work is ours) we can report them and Instagram will delate the post. (the image on the right is part of the term and conditions and the section I have highlighted is the section where they directly mention how they might use it).

I have never given much thought into my digital footprint but when you think about it, it is kind of scary. Recently through the media (mainly in films and TV) people have been highlighting the damaging effects it can have. So in hindsight I should probably think about more often.