NSC Visual Arts Making of Artworks: Title
Web Jacket, indicates that

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Web Jacket, indicates that this is a jacket, but more specifically a web jacket. It keeps people locked up into the Virtual world and keeping them from the real world. The web Jacket will help you access to any web network. This jacket tells us that it is linked to the web (internet) and is made from computer parts, electrical wire, clothes and belts. There is an addition of a dark coloured cap/hoodie which hides his own identity. It looks like a straightjacket which is a garment with very long sleeves, used to restrain a person who may cause harm to him/herself or others. Once the arms are inserted into the straightjacket's sleeves, they are crossed across the chest and the ends of the sleeves are tied to the body with ease. Therefore, the arms are kept close to the chest with its little movement as possible. This Web Jacket implies how the internet/web is restraining us every day. The web-caught up like a spider web.

Describe how Mbikayi has used computer parts.
The artist has constructed a sculpture/installation/performance piece from computer parts (keyboards etc.), electrical wire, clothes and belts. This sculpture/jacket is designed to be used as part of an indoor mime performance piece. This image of the jacket is in a photographic still from the performance piece. The artist used an armature to prop it up in the photograph; however, in the performance piece he would have worn the Web Jacket himself.

The significance of the straightjacket
The jacket is made from computer parts and is called Web Jacket which is symbolic of the virtual world. This three-dimensional world is free and anyone can contact anyone from anywhere in the world, however the web jacket is portrayed as a straightjacket which restrains a person. It may represent the internet as being a bad influence that restrains us as well as harms us. A straightjacket is used to restrain mentally ill patients, preventing them from hurting themselves or the people around them. Often people who are schizophrenic need to be restrained due to their actions. The straightjacket is a metaphor of how the internet is restraining us because we are addicted to the Internet. FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) can also be related to the web jacket, as the straight jacket could refer to mentally ill patients (own bipolar personal experience). The straight jacket could also represent the fear of being left out at a time when people are bungee jumping or skydiving or paragliding. Brave leap to use technology and creativity (Superhero).

Do you interpret this work of art as a positive or negative comment on technology?
Candidates own interpretation with substantiation will be acceptable.

Title Web Jacket, indicates that this is a jacket, but more specifically a web jacket - NSC Visual Arts - Question 6 - 2017 - Paper 1

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Describe how Mbikayi has used computer parts.

The significance of the straightjacket

Would you interpret this work of art as a positive or negative comment on technology?

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