Liberal Propaganda: 15 artists take a stand

By Fiona Anavi

Scott Blake and Paul Razza's work is collaborative, in that they both wish to "raise technology to a fine art," according to Razza. Blake makes portraits of famous people including Marilyn Manson and Oprah Winfrey by taping together hundreds of 8 1/2 by 11 black and white printouts covered with barcodes, suggesting that we are all for sale. His Chuck Close(esqe) work explores our willingness (as a society) to idolize these people so we can have "complete faith in [an] image," Scott said. Razza's work is reminiscent of Nam June Paik's in the way it brings TV evangelism to a different, more self-aware level.