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