internet://trash
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Technological overstimulation has created a cluttered online landscape, littered with poorly designed advertisements, attempts to reach out to others, and inexplicable clickbait. However successful these artifacts may be in their pursuit of attention, the favor of the mass at large is short-lived at best. This provides cultural phenomena that is both timeless and entirely disposable. These passing phases and consciously invisible cultural artifacts serve to represent our insecurities, our shortcomings, our desires, and our curiosities as people of the 21st century.
As part of internet://trash, along with Jane Salerno and Geordi Helmick, we analyze the importance of these elements to the identity of online culture through choreographed performance. The performer is wearing a costume outfitted with wearable hardware that generates data to be used in conjunction with digital visuals. This is completed using an accelerometer that is connected to a micro controller in the suit. This then sends data to Max MSP, which interprets the movement data, generating visuals of advertisements, memes, and other culturally [in]significant media as feedback. As the performer moves, the pop-ups disappear in correlation with her speed. internet://trash looks to consider these artifacts of online culture as a subject to be deconstructed, and to distort the original intention of this media to institute new thought: who are we as a community? And how do these components of our culture display our dark side? |