Lindsay Lohan’s Art Video: An Electronic Meditation
1. While browsing the Youtubes, you’re struck by the following video of Lindsay Lohan by artist Richard Phillips:
2. You read the New York Times Style Magazine article about Lohan’s art video
3. You decide to install a Greasemonkey script to hide Wikipedia’s header and sidebar
4. Once installed, you visit Wikipedia’s entry on Lindsay Lohan, pressing ctrl-alt-f first so you can imagine Henry’s reading a hypertext fiction neo-antinovel by a combined holographic simulacrum of inventor Ted Nelson & theorist Slavoj Zizek.
5. While listening to “Venus In Furs” by The Velvet Underground you read selected press about Richard Phillips at the Gagosian Gallery site:
6. You suddenly fee like re-watching the trailer for “Vertigo” by Alfred Hitchcock:
7. This brings you to a classic advertisement for Chanel perfume by Ridley Scott:
“I am made of blue sky and golden light – and I will feel this way forever.” Wow. Just wow
8. You bring this E.M.Procedure to a close by listening to “This Is What Everybody Wants” by Cliff Martinez (Solaris soundtrack):
Additional Notes:
This Lindsay Lohan video reminds Henry Swanson of Eric Fischl’s early paintings (discussed in theorist Arthur Kroker’s cool sci-fi fanfiction “The Postmodern Scene“) and described by one blogger as “(..) observant and authentic“..
Big Science Term: a ‘Lohan’: “An edgeless series of luxurious poses and enigmatic, direct-to-camera stares by a gynoid replica who looks like she’s lived in a bubble of artificial diamond floating weightlessly in the middle of a mineral-water sea her whole life, and is only now washing up on the shore of The Real World(tm) – all offered without comment (or content) – advertising a persona, that feels uncanny – yet inevitable”
