FINAL OUTPUT

For the presentation of my three works I want to have them printed on the same piece of paper (like below) making the three works one big piece.  Through doing so each of the pieces looks like its in its own space and I can add text and effects not normally seen on a final print series like the white gradient blobs. Currently this is what I am experimenting with..

3 PART SERIES

For my final presentation I am planning on producing a three part series of work presented on one single print. I am planning on creating a another  two pieces of work - one a close up portrait of someones face, duplicated like John Stezakers work showing multiple sets of eyes but half covered up with something (maybe tape, plaster or a phone) to represent how analytics control what we see with out us really understanding, giving a highly filtered version of the internet, yet we know no difference. And for my other piece of work I want to make something commenting on the amount of images we consume on a daily basis and how once original content has been repeated so many times, that even though something like a sunset which has extreme natural beauty is seen as a boring photo.

John Stezaker Blind II, 2006 Collage

Suns (from Sunsets) from Flickr, by Penelope Umbrico

DEVELOPMENT

I have continued developing my style, taking away colour, playing with composition, but mostly playing with the blending modes of my layers on photoshop to see what effects suit best for the message I'm trying to communicate. I feel like having a black background helps communicate being in a virtual space and also the darker tones of being consumed by our smart phones. I personally like the third one down with the white plastic texture and black boarder, as I think it works the best and has a style i would like to continue to my other 2 pieces of work in the series.

DEVELOPMENT

I have continued developing a style heavily influenced by a post-internet style of art, specifically artist such as Petra Cortright and Artie Vierkant. I wanted to make my work more texturalised and stylised while still conveying meaning and relevance to the topics I am speaking too such as obsession with our phones, data analytics and our over consumption of images.

At the moment I am experimenting with lots of different compositions, textures and colours trying to find a style that I feel best represents the tone of my works and the messages i am trying to communicate

STUDIO SHOOT #1

Images I took of my friends on their phones, I wasn't too concerned with how great the lighting quality was as I knew I was using them for the silhouette and not a hyper realistic, high def image. After doing the shoot and developing my ideas with these images I have decided I need to go back to the studio and take some more photos of different positions and maybe some close up shots.

DEVELOPMENT

I have gone for a stylistic change, making my work more grungy and rough than soft and pretty. I have done this by using limited colours and mainly using black and white. I warped the perspective of a flat grid to make it seem like a three dimensional space and overlaid a gradient. I then cut out an image in took of my friend and added a noise filter over him because I feel like this texture represents white noise and in ways, transitioning between reality and a virtual space. I chose to make the part of the grid where the figure is standing filled in with noise to represent the consuming nature of being on a phone and represent a disconnection with the world around them.

CORY ARCANGEL

Arcangel is a post-conceptual artist who makes work in many different media, including drawing, music, video, performance art, and video game modifications, for which he is perhaps best known. Arcangel often uses the artistic strategy of appropriation, creatively re-using existing materials such as dancing stands, Photoshop gradients and YouTube videos to create new works of art. His work explores the relationship between digital technology and pop culture. 

PAMELA ROSENKRANZ

Rosenkranz has received such wide attention in part because her work raises fundamental and potentially troubling questions about what it means to be human in the contemporary world. She refers unsentimentally to her body as “material” and has spoken of a “human-indifferent universe.”

Rosenkranz’s paintings, sculptures and installations are informed by her extensive research into fields ranging from marketing and medicine to philosophy and religion.

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/magazine/in-the-studio-pamela-rosenkranz/

POST-INTERNET ART

Post-internet denotes an idea in arts and criticism that refers to society and modes of interaction following the widespread adoption of the internet. The term originated from discussions about works produced by Maria Olson, Gene Mchugh and Artie Vierkant however, it is generally described as art that is about the internet's effects on aesthetics, culture and society.

Works created within the post-internet description often share similar, distinctive aesthetics. However, interent art does not use the internet only as a tool to produce art but addresses the internet as a force that has altered social structures in both digital and physical spaces. Post-internet art is not necessarily art produced on the internet, but art that reflects the internet and the internet's effects on culture and society.

CONTINUED EXPERIMENTATION

These works are making a comment on original content, scrolling social media, and repetition of images. The square on the top of the pages are meant to represent original content while the square of blank colour represents the original content getting repeated and copied until the point where they mean nothing to anyone and don't resonate with any viewer as it is regurgitated content. I chose to float the squares in space to represent a virtual reality, white the scribbles and dots are supposed to make it appealing to look at. 

ANALITICS BUBBLE

Many of our popular digital platforms like Facebook and Google employ algorithms that try to guess what we want to see. Based on your previous activities, likes, friends etc. These sites use this data to their advantage, constantly monitoring what you see based on who you are, what you like, and where you are. For example, if you and I search for the same thing, we’ll likely get radically different results based on these factors. Our algorithmic guides are conforming to our perceived preferences and views.

Our personal choices and search engine experiences are inexorably creating a “filter bubble” around us that repels opposing views and opinions. I wonder what the impact of that might be over time.

SOCIAL MEDIA DATA ANALYTICS

DATA ANALYTICS

“Social media data is clearly the largest, richest and most dynamic evidence base of human behavior, bringing new opportunities to understand individuals, groups and society.” Social media is a very lucrative source of data and through the use of social media data analytics businesses are giving us a force feed version our the internet, "Social media analytics can also be referred as social media listening, social media monitoring or social media intelligence.” ultimately controlling our web/social media experience

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“Innovative scientists and industry professionals are increasingly finding novel ways of automatically collecting, combining and analyzing this wealth of data.

Computational social science applications include: monitoring public responses to announcements, speeches and events especially political comments and initiatives; insights into community behavior; social media polling of (hard to contact) groups; early detection of emerging events, as with Twitter.

The majority of social media resources are commercial and companies are naturally trying to monetize their data.”

Social media analytics: a survey of techniques, tools and platforms, Bogdan Batrinca Philip C. Treleaven, Department of Computer Science University College London, London, UK published 26 July 2014

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-014-0549-4

"Social Media Analytics is the art and science of extracting valuable hidden insights from vast amounts of semi-structured and unstructured social media data to enable informed and insightful decision making. It is a science, as it involves systematically identifying, extracting, and analyzing social media data (such as tweets, shares, likes, and hyperlinks) using sophisticated tools and techniques. It is also an art, interpreting and aligning the insights gained with business goals and objectives. To get value from analytics, one should master both its art and science."

Khan G. F., 2015, seven layers of social media analytics: Mining business insights from social media text, actions, networks, hyperlinks, apps, search engine, and location data, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.

Social media analytics can also be referred as social media listening, social media monitoring or social media intelligence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_analytics

“consumer research can take advantage of useful tools developed in art history and cultural studies to investigate the poetics and politics of advertising as a representational system.”

Visual Consumption in the Image Economy Jonathan E. Schroeder in: Elusive Consumption Karin Ekström and Helene Brembeck, eds, Oxford: Berg (2004),

THROW AWAY

Experimenting with images and photoshop tools, playing with image manipulation and creating collage on photoshop. This piece was inspired by a article I read on the effects on mental health social media has on humans and how some people are so personally effected by social media. 

The colour checker chart represents a systematic way of thinking and a standard that had been established and enforced, while the manipulation of the image represents a system not fitting everyone. The numbers and heart symbols represent a desire for likes  

SOCIAL MEDIAS EFFECT ON MENTAL HEALTH

“Several studies have indicated that the prolonged use of social networking sites (SNS), such as Facebook, may be related to signs and symptoms of depression. In addition, some authors have indicated that certain SNS activities might be associated with low self-esteem, especially in children and adolescents. Other studies have presented opposite results in terms of positive impact of social networking on self-esteem.” This comment made by Igor in my opinion can most likely be down to the fact that some people who dont receive much attention on social media feel badly about themselves as they might feel like they  do not have society approval and are not as worthy as someone who get a large amount of attention. Where as on the other spectrum of gaining large amounts attention and approval, boosts one self esteem as they feel valued by society. 

‘Online Social Networking and Mental Health.’ Dr. Igor V. Pantic, Institute of Medical Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Belgrade