analyzing the audience

"With all his tools perfected his man institutions - such as the motor sensory - or acknowledges the limits of their power away. Engines give huge forces available, it looks like his muscles in any direction can send, and that the ship Plane makes that neither water nor air prevent its movement. with the glasses he corrected the deficiencies of the lens in his eye, with the telescope he looks to distant expanse, with the microscope he overcomes the limitations of visibility caused by the construction of its retina concerned. in the photographic camera, he has an instrument that the fleeting vision states, which gave him the gramophone record for the same transitory leistenmmuß sound impressions, both basically given him materializations of the assets of remembrance, his memory. with the help of Telephones hears He distances, even as the fairy tale would reach respect, the script was originally the language of the absent, (...). The man is, so to speak, a kind of prosthetic God has become quite great if it all his auxiliary organs creates, but they are not with him to grow and make him occasionally too much. incidentally He has a right to comfort is that this development is not just with the year 1930 AD will be completed. distant times are new, probably inconceivable great progress in this area the culture to make the God similarity even further. "

Freud, Sigmund, Das Unbehagen der Kultur (1930), Frankfurt aM, 1989, S.86 - 87 Freud, Sigmund, the unease of Culture (1930), Frankfurt am Main, 1989, p.86 - 87

I really like this quote, yes it is poorly translated but it highlights human's preoccupation with always wanting to see further, closer, to overcome the limitations of their body. People are inquisitive, they like to know things, see things, better themselves. I have found that when looking at a lot of collaborative internet based works i.e Human Clock, so many people get involved and love the works, who wouldn't want to be part of an artwork? It's like being an extra on a film you get your nanosecond of fame, satisfaction from just knowing that you were there. People relate better to situations they can imagine themselves in, something they can personally relate to. Why do we take so many photos of ourselves? There are so many answers to that but we LIKE seeing pictures of ourselves and the thought that other people will see them too, look at facebook. There are exceptions of course but I'm not going to try and accomodate everyone's reaction within my artwork, that isn't the point. I need to read more on psychology/psychoanalysis/phemomenology.