Jenny Holzer

This was the first Jenny Holzer exhibit I've ever seen.

I was really disturbed by what I saw and read, but also grateful that she decided to present this information to the public.

This is word for word what I wrote in my notes.

(summary)
contradictory voices, opinions, attitudes that shape society.
abuse of power
assumptions


sculpture, electronic signs, projections, texts from US gov't documents

bureaucratic and repetitive
the patterns of the censorship bars
"charged" - another classmate
thoughtful ways of composing large amounts of information, composing time, composing space
"sensitive but unclassified"
text fonts all recognizable, grilled into our minds

jumping from text to text, making your own dialogue
paper canvas
gruesome details
formatting of standardized data/info

"belligerents" used to describe opposing side
"BOTTOM LINE. We are American soldiers, heirs of a long tradition of staying on the high ground. We need to stay there."
8/12/03
WOW!

(bright flashing column with streams of text, looks like Las Vegas)
moaning
regret
soul
knowledge
crackpots
mother
destiny
attitude
eye
murder
better man
mark of genius
clinging
stripped down
dignity
investigation
pointless lives
victims
families
duty
submission
freedom
fate
damned
no god
complacency
elite
force
sacred

-text as a wheel, spinning, continuous, reverse waterfall
layered text, threads, rhythm