What is the real relationship between mothers and fathers and their daugthers?

Artist Candice Bretiz explores separately, the relationships of mothers and fathers regarding their children; Most specifically their daughters. The piece takes clips from multiple movies: "Mommy Dearest," "StepMom", "Father of the Bride," etc; and they black out the movies only allowing certain footage and one person to be viewed in their speaking. The piece brings up multiple questions regarding how the original meaning of something can be distorted when things are taken out of context.
In the first part of her work, Bretiz takes a display of 6 movies with "mother-like" figures in them. In this sequence of clips you hear from all six characters. They are either yelling, screaming, crying or talking about what it means to be a mother. What is interesting in this piece is that with the blacked out background of the original movie scene, you are left with what seems to be a sort of therapy session. The actors are in a way discussing the trails of being a mother to each other, what to do that is right and what to do that is wrong. But in each piece you see that the women contradict themselves because essentially they go against all of the "right" that they had been trying to display.
The same tool was used to display the fathers in the second part of Bretiz's piece. Except for where you may find the women to be screaming and yelling and getting mad at other people, it is almost as if the father's emotion and anguish is more internal. Like they aren't mad at their children, but more mad at themselves. This was displayed most in the Tony Danza piece where he is conveyed as sighing and getting upset when he finds out that someone he is talking to does not have children. It is as if he is saying, and generally parents do sya this, " Who are you to say anything to me when you have no children of your own?"
When comparing the two you almost see what many may identify as the reality of these parental relationships. The mothers are often more times aggressive to their daughters, whereas the fathers tend to coddle and want to hold on to the little girls they once knew. To the point where they get angry and act out of character as they are faced with their daughters growing up.

Was Alan Kay right?

"Alan Kay declared the personal computer a medium in it's own right," ( Kay, Birth of a New Medium), but was he right?
After reading the history of the computer and being a part of a generation that has watched this new technology expand I can say that I do agree with Alan Kay's statement. "The computer is a medium in it's own right" because it has opened the eyes of many, by allowing them to view many things differently. Just the concept of the computer, being able to more visually type and edit works has given a new life to what seemed at one point impossible.
Nowadays, web navigators have access to multiple outlets, including podcast, music, digital videos, digital media etc. The computer has allowed for all of those mediums, television, art, history, music to grow expand and evolve through it. Everyday new technology shifts the range in which digital media is developed. The more people begin to learn about the scopes and the limitless possibilities that the computer offers the more this medium will expand and grow. It is going to be a continued source of how to receive the most up to date information. The affects of digital media instilled by the manifestations of the computer are already beginning to take more affect especially with the up and coming Digital TV laws. Just the expansion into how we watch regular TV is baffling, but something that is going to be much more prevalent in the near future. So to say that the computer is in itself it's own medium is accurate and true. It has been able to reinvent new ways for technology and art to be viewed, and while it does that it remains the number one leading source where all this information can be played and viewed in a multitude of different formats.

Citation:

Alan Kay, "Birth of a New Medium". 2000, Artsmuseum.com

Artist interpretation

Viewing art in the digital medium has give audiences a chance to really get involved in art. Art in a digital medium gives art a more interactive feel. An almost more lively feel. Art is no longer as 1-dimensional as it has been in the past. It moves, it has sound etc. Digital art has taken everything studied from the first art pieces to now and warped them into this one interesting and multi-dimensional vision.

   Interacting with an on-line medium such as Golan Levin's Yellowtail, gives the audience a chance to actually be apart of the artwork. It allows viewers to not only be a part of it, but to take part in creating the artwork itself. It is a brilliant idea. To an extent the creator of an on-line medium is considered the artist because their idea is what brought the audience to this point. But the fact that NOW the audience has control over the artwork is ingenious. It takes art to a whole other level giving audiences a chance to just be a part of something instead of trying to interrupt what the artist is saying, they now become the artist.