DISSIDENT A contemporary popculture magazine
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Definition
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Individualism
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Music fragmentation
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Subculture fragmentation
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Normcore
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Temporary
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Everybody an artist on the internet
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definition.
Popular culture may be defined as the products and forms of expression and identity that are frequently encountered or widely accepted, commonly liked or approved, and characteristic of a particular society at a given time. Popular culture allows large heterogeneous masses of people to identify collectively. It serves an inclusionary role in society as it unites the masses on ideals of acceptable forms of behavior. Along with forging a sense of identity which binds individuals to the greater society, consuming pop culture items often enhances an individual’s prestige in their peer group. Urbanization, industrialization, mass media and the continuous growth in technology since the late 1700s, have all been significant factors in the formation of popular culture. These continue to be factors shaping pop culture today.
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There are numerous sources of popular culture. As implied, a primary source is the mass media, especially popular music, film, television, radio, video games, books and the internet. In addition, advances in communication allows for the greater transmission of ideas by word of mouth, especially via smartphones.
Individualism
A seemingly contradictory source of popular culture is individualism. Urban culture has not only provided a common ground for the masses, it has inspired ideals of individualistic aspirations. In the United States, the society formed on the premise of individual rights, states that there are theoretically no limitations to what an individual might accomplish. An individual may choose to participate in all that is ‘popular’ for popularity’s sake; or they may choose a course of action off the beaten track. At times, these ‘pathfinders’ affect popular culture by their individuality. Of course, once a unique style becomes adopted by others, it ceases to remain unique. It becomes, popular.
It used to be possible to be special — to sustain unique differences through time, relative to a certain sense of audience. As long as you were different from the people around you, you were safe.
But the internet and globalization fucked it all up.
GLITCH
what now?
If we take a look at the last 10-15 years we can conclude that one subculture became very mainstream.
The Urban Dictionary defines hipsters as “a subculture of men and women, typically in their 20s and 30s, that value independent thinking, counter-culture and progressive politics�. In reality, the word is now tantamount to an insult.
looking for identity.
Everybody who grows up, will sooner or later face questions like: What is my place in this world? And how can I build my existence? For youngsters in big cities this is even more difficult. How can they conquer a place in highly competitive and prosperous cities like New York, Amsterdam or Berlin? Well one way to find their identity is by distinguishing yourself with trivialities as favourite movies, music and clothing. Hipsters are connected to eachother by their specific consumption behaviour. They don’t make art by themselves, but they are an artwork by the books they read, the music they listen to and the clothes they wear. Hipsters distiguish themselves by watching alternative movies or by buying secondhand clothes. They rebel by always searching for artforms who are not mainstream.
With the rise of social media, blogs, online-shops en digital magazines it has become easier to find new things. Things that aren’t discovered yet by the masses. Large groups of young urbanizers have accessed new unknown artists, DJ’s, musicbands,... And when everybody becomes alternative or underground. Then alternative gets mainstream. And the hipster is dead.
music fragmentation.
Music will become more and more fragmented. Today we know only a few of music styles, but in the future ‘new’ genres will emerge and become popular. New has been said, let us say it’s about music from the longtail. That’s because hipster are always looking for the genres that nobody’s ever heard of or genres that are already forgotten. Think about Krautrock, Synth pop, wave, Leffield,... Music will cross all the boundaries of experience, limits will be shifted and music will have a different meaning. How it will evolve I can’t tell you yet. But I have a presentiment, music will be more visualised, and more electronically substaniated than you’ve ever heard before.
According to the british newspaper The Guardian - The time of the hipster is passed. The beard trend has been reached. The hipster has become mainstream. And this means the beginning of the end.
“I see it more as evolving than dying. There are now two types of hipsters: The contemporary hipsters - the ones with the beards and sneakers we love to hate - and proto-hipsters, the real deal.�
Historically, proto-hipsters have been connoisseurs - people who deviate from the norm. They try something new and try to express themselves by doing something different. Over the years, tough, they ‘ve inspired a new generation of young urban types who turned the notion of ‘a hipster’ into a grossly commercial parody. These new hipsters want to appear a certain way, to be seen as doing certain things. So they appropriated the lifestyle and mindset of a proto-hipster. The problem is that it is now almost impossible to differentiate between the two. “Hipsters” are more interested in following; “proto-hipsters” are more interested in leading.
Hipster has simply become a word which means the opposite of authentic.
Optical illusion
The rise of the hipster is linked to the accessibility of the internet, the increasing speed of changes in lifestyle and fashion is something that gets photographed or blogged, somethings what gets commented, something that becomes a trend, get marketed and gets sold. The rise of the hipster in numerous cities around the world is something that’s probably related to the degree of accessibility of the internet. In Lima for example, where the internet is still a slow rising-, and recent evolution, the ‘Limena hipsterculture’ is taking rise, as opposed to Western countries, where Hipsterculture is very common known.
Subculture Fragmentation
The Internet makes subcultures less compelling, subcultures get fragmented and the chips become new movements throughout the youth.
So what’s next? “I think hipsters will have an overhaul. There will be a downturn in the hipter lifestye like we know it today. And over the next few years there will be a rise of something else,”
normcore
Individuality was once the path to personal freedom — a way to lead life on your own terms. But the terms keep getting more and more specific, making us more and more isolated. Normcore seeks the freedom that comes with nonexclusivity. It finds liberation in being nothing special, and realizes that adaptability leads to belonging. Normcore is a path to a more peaceful life.
I envision the world as a place where people choose between just two styles. There are two kinds of people in this world: those who like to go with the flow, and those who do the opposite . Over time, people perceive what the mainstream trend is, and either align themselves with it or oppose it.
The hipster-effect
hen antionformists ll look he same When anticonformists all look the same
Temporary
“In a world where Hipsters want something new again and again temporary will be the keyword. They want it each time newer, better and more differently. The things get odd very fast. by making everything locally and temporarily things will become more exclusive and in demand.�
In 1917, a man put a toilet bowl upside down in an art gallery, he signed R. Mutt, he gave it a title, and he called the piece into art. “But this is not art!�, The Salon des Independants, shouted apparently unaware of the fact that it was one of them who was responsible for the piece. Nearly 100 years later, Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is considered one of the most important works ever. Why So? Because it is the foundation on which the art was built enormous challenged - something that in this era in which everyone can be an artist on the internet through apps like Instagram is particularly relevant.
Everybody an artist on the internet Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain is considered to be one of the most important, radical artworks ever made. Why So? Because it challenges the foundation on which art was build. Where most of us spend our lazy afternoons safely in the warm glow of an Amaro filter, scrollingly spending our feeds, digital artists all over the world are involved in something completely else. Whether they are appropriating the visual rhetoric of social media or using the many possibilities of the Internet to create magical GIFs, vines or memes, one thing is certain: the Internet is thé medium for an artist. But, like it generaly goes with novelties, people ask theirselves, is this really art?
For the board of the Salon des Independants (which is constitutionally obliged to take all artistic applications pending), it was a problem that Duchamp’s urinal was not designed himself, and that he had made no contribution to its fabrication. For them there was no difference between what Duchamp had put down and what you find in the smallest room of your house. Shortly after the rejection, however, there appeared an anonymous article in the New York Dadaist publication The Blind Man, that Duchamp’s work defended as art: “It is not important whether Mr. deFountain Mutt with his own hands have made,” it said. “He CHOSE it He took an ordinary article, and placed so that the useful significance disappeared under the new title and the new point -. He created a new meaning for that object.” Through the urinal upside down in a gallery setting, and add the semiotic requirements for a work of art (title, date, signature) Duchamp had a commonplace, readymade object made high art - the very same logic that we should apply to works of art from this digital age, especially in the work that we find out the gallery and on our phone screens. Because the Internet is the way we make and consume art changed dramatically. No longer tied to the physical space of a gallery or even at the hands of artists, it becomes increasingly difficult to say what is and is not art. Artist Margot Bowman says that it is difficult for art to stand out from everything else that happens online, because we all digital content - Snap Chats, online newspaper reports and sexts - using the same screen to take us. “They do not have a specific set of indicators that say” this is art, “she says.” There is no strict guard, and you do not have to pay entrance fee. “
“Art is subjective,” says filmmaker and co-founder of 15Folds, Sean Frank. “Not everyone will agree on what is and is not art, what evidence the pieces of Duchamp and Warhol For me it’s not about the medium, but how you let go of your thoughts on the chosen medium -. Whether that painting, film, photography, the use of ready-mades or is POISON. “And so we are back to the semiotic requirements for a work of art - there is nothing fundamentally different between the POISON of a visitor and the POISON of an artist, but the latter is a work of art because it is presented as. The same can be said for the artists and works on Instagram. Nowadays, anyone with an iPhone to edit an image, distort and influence, but does this mean that all selfies be high art? Only if we frame them as such. There is clearly a difference between Internet artists like Amalia Ulman - who recently gave a presentation on its instagramaccount - and Kim Kardashian, to name but one of many queens of the selfies. The one used Instagram as an artistic medium / social experiment, where the other person just used to feed her fanbase. On the other hand, the renowned publisher Rizzoli recently announced that they will publish a selection of Kim selfies in the 352 page book Selfish. Is that art? For Sure. Why not? In 1917 Marcel Duchamp created a work of art that would redefine the meaning of art, and nearly 100 years later is still that sense - or maybe even more - up for grabs.
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Peekasso pushes the boundaries of digital technology while he refers to works of art from the past, by sharing his online work on his Tumblr page - each with a signature and date.
Peekasso’s work is a commentary on life in the 21st century. Peekasso’s method is similar to that of the People: he brings two readymade digital images together, give it a new meaning and calls it art.
tren quic trends quickly lose their value.
But just as quickly come back