Week 4 - Artist - Molly Soda & Girl Talk

 Our artists this week are Molly Soda and Girl Talk (Gregg Gillis).

  • Describe Gregg Gillis’ work
  • Should his work be illegal? Should it be legal?
  • If his work is illegal, does that stifle creativity?
  • If his work is legal, does that steal from other artist’s livelihoods?
  • Describe Molly Soda’s work
  • Could her be work have been done in any earlier time? Or only in our present technological moment?
  • How are Gregg Gillis’ and Molly Soda’s oeuvres similar?
  • How are Gregg Gillis’ and Molly Soda’s oeuvres different?
  • Is the work that artists like Gillis and Soda do connected to work by past masters like Mozart or Picasso or Warhol? Or is it of a fundamentally different nature and not connected to past art and artists? Explain.
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Gregg Michael Gilli, better known by his stage name Girl Talk, is a mashup and digital sample DJ from the United States. He makes mashup remixes, in which he uses a dozen or more unlicensed samples from various songs to make a mashup. If his work was illegal then it would stifle his creativity because that would stop him from being able to express his work his way but the catch is it's not his work. Since he uses other artists' work than his work would not be considered his form of art. If his work is legal then it does not mean he is stealing someone's livelihoods because they most likely made their profit when the work was released. But it does mean that he lives off their hard work but by changing it slightly. 

Molly Soda, she works in so many forms of art which include,  producing videos, GIFszines, and web-based performance art. Her work focuses on self-concept technology mediation, modern feminism, cyberfeminism, mass media, and popular social media culture. Her work is more open-minded and about expressing yourself in the most natural way possible. Her work would only work in the present with the current technology, such as GIFs being sent in messages and her ideas of females being able to express body hair and stuff which was not normalized back then. 

Both of their work is similar in the sense that they use someones else's idea and slightly make it into their own. The difference between their work is that Gregg needs work that is already made in order to mix it up together and create his own piece. But Molly uses other concepts but adds her own touch like her videos, people might see something similar to it on youtube but the thoughts and feelings expressed in her art are more realistic than Gregg. The only connection their work has to Mozart or Picasso or Warhol would be that they are also expressing themselves in the art they produce. But since it is a different generation, we no longer express just art in black and white, idea wise art back then had meaning for the artist and the people but now art is just what the artists want. 

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