Today’s class looked at the shifting new media landscape and its impact on the representation of sports.
For more on the life, play, and politics of Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis, check out this 2005 profile from the Dallas Observer.
Artforum‘s editor Tim Griffin talks about the commodification of the public sphere in this essay on Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait:
Details from Harun Farocki’s World Cup new media installation Deep Play (2007) can be seen below:
For fun, here’s Czech surrealist animator Jan Svankmajer’s hilariously bizarre take on soccer, Virile Games (1988):
And finally, because the internet is continually broadening our sports horizons, I present…Wild Cow Milking:
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