Sometimes when I look at my own Instagram stream I arrest myself thinking; I wish this was MY life.
Amelia Ulman Excellences and Perfection (2014) was a social media performance, where the Instagram portion of the performance evoked a consumerist fantasy lifestyle, through use of sets, props and locations.
Ona Artist explores Onas: virtual profiles or presences through which a person seeks to share, sell, or hook up online, and the Ona Generation: a new ageless, auto-erotic, DIY, multi-personified online generation changing the world one share at a time.
She has some really interesting ways of describing an ageless generation circle jerking with virtual genitals to be liked, with distinct multi-personas operating on platforms with different rules.
Both projects where discoverd on New Hive, a multimedia publishing platform which also supports creators with Commissioned Projects, Interview Series and Events & Exhibitions.
In “Are You “Internet Sexual”? Emily Witt explores if tech has created a whole new sexual persuasion. Is there a new mode of sexual expression in the context of mass intimacy on the internet, where being sexual is a bold and risky form of performance?
Playing with identities and showing any part of yourself that you want is part of the online culture. At times it´s important to have a look at one´s own stream and reflect over what we share and why. Would you recognize your life from the outside?
In Experimental Publishing Studio, Paul Soulellis has created a a series of performing self-publishing excercises exploring what publishing is today and if posting is (always) publishing:
SUBTRATE
– in saying nothing explore the possibility of medium to carry their own messages
VERSIONS
– how are copies both same/not same?
DISPERSIONS
– can you alter the expectations of your network?
TRANSDUCTION
– what is lost/gained in translation?
BALCONISM
– create tensions between seen/unseen
MANIFESTO
– develop work based on a manifesto and it´s suggested methodology
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