After reading the Introduction offered by New Media Art, I noticed that I was drawn most to the dada artists and movement. The dada period was an informal international, cultural movement that began in Switzerland, during world war I, and grew to have participants in Berlin, Tokyo, New York, Netherlands, and Paris. The movement primarily concentrated on anti-war politics and focused on visual arts, literature, art theory, and graphic design. The word dada has many different meanings, in German it means "there, there" in French it means " hobbyhorse" and in Romanian it means " yes, yes", and it was the groups desire to resist a fixed meaning, thus proclaiming themselves dadaists.The dada period blasted onto the scene in 1916 with ear-splitting enthusiasm: rowdy, brazen, irreverent, and assaulting art and politics and would continue till around 1922.

This particular collage was created by Hannah Hoch in 1919 and called "Cut with the Kitchen Knife Through the First Epoch of the Weimar Beer-Belly Culture". And in this particular image Hoch epitomizes the dada's attitude toward war, thatit is chaos. And due of war, the world has gone mad and is more or less destroying itself. One would notice that she constantly put dada in the collage as well as Die Anti-dadaist, thus expressing how she feels about war. This collage is filled with what looks like important peoples faces as well as tires and gears. Yet all of Hoch's collages don't have to do with war and its devastation's.

However, this particular collage that Hoch made that was called "The Beautiful Lady" and was created in 1920 has nothing to do with war and the fact that humans are destroying themselves. In fact it has more to do with modern technology and the hope and optimism of its success as well as it's relationship with the modern women. Everything in this collage relates to a women (one in a modern suit for that matter) as well as the every growing technology behind the automobile, this being explained be the BMW labels, the tires, and the gears.

After looking at both of these images with some detail i feel Hoch was able to capture both the chaos of the 1919 collage as well as the 1920 collage where she juxtaposed two concepts that would other wise not get along such as the modern women and technology. Overall, however I feel that her better success was with the 1919 collage. I say this because at that point in time Hoch had more emotional attachment to the subject of war and how we as humans are destroying all that we have created. I feel the second collage is merely just expressing how times are changing, there doesn't seem to be any real emotional connection or involvement.