Politics has seen the future and it is New Media

The biggest news about Barack Obama’s successful presidential campaign seems to be the mountain of dough that it raked in – reportedly $600 million. That’s impressive, but I think the explosion of new media content for laptops, mobile phones, PDAs and ipods had a lot to do with Obama’s 2008 election win, too.
Podcasting News argues [...]

“Images That Lie Between” by Henry G. Sanchez

Artist Statement:
I appropriate images from political advertisements, campaign flyers, and mailings to create digital prints with glitter. I use glitter to obscure and disguise certain features of the images to expose a tension between adoration and mystery.
“El Gringo de la Bachata”- glitter on ink-jet print, 18” x 24”, 2004

“Supporting the Column”- glitter on ink-jet [...]