NSC Visual Arts Visual Analysis and Interpretation: • Title
Web Jacket, indicates th

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• Title
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 cape/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 then tied to the body with some movement as possible. This image of the jacket resemble a photographic still from a 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.

• 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 to be used as part of an indoor online performance piece. This image of the jacket resemble a photographic still from a 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 harming 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 to be safe. The straightjacket is a metaphor of how the internet is restraining us because we are addicted to the Internet. FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) is represented by the straight jacket could refer to mentally ill patients (own bipolar personal experience). The straight jacket could represent the danger of 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

Worked Solution & Example Answer:• 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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