Filter Bubble / Inequality Theme
What is a Filter Bubble?
Ted Talk by author Eli Parsiser
https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles?language=en#t-4291
What are artists doing to try to break through media filter
bubbles to reveal inequalities of power,
money, and attention?
Natalie Jerejimenko’s
Feral Robotic Dogs: http://inhabitat.com/robotic-pollution-sniffing-eco-dogs/
And her MEXICO CITY BIKExMESSENGERS
Local media, very local media, coproduced to change who, where, how and why news is produced. Public information updating as you ride; economic statistics, like the extent of student debt, in the form of “occu-pie” charts – thereby enabling you to transform your bike into a moving civic media display. Unlike paid advertisement displayed in public transit, this indicator, and the ones to follow, are in the interests of the rider and in all our interests. http://www.environmentalhealthclinic.net/portfolio_page/bike-messenger/
Yes Men making a historical tragedy visible in the news. Revealing the inequalities between corporations/people, rich countries/poor countries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiWlvBro9eIhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiWlvBro9eI
20 Artworks Inspired by the Occupy Wall Street Movement
http://flavorwire.com/233362/20-artworks-inspired-by-the-occupy-wall-street-movement
Occupy George dollar bill stamping: http://www.occupygeorge.com/
On the Authority of images and the collective reclaiming:
“Ways
of Something”, is a contemporary remake of John Berger’s BBC documentary, “Ways
of Seeing” (1972). Compiled by Lorna Mills, the first episode consists of
one-minute videos by 30 web-based artists who commonly work with 3D rendering,
gifs, film remix, webcam performances, and websites to describe the cacophonous
conditions of artmaking after the internet. https://vimeo.com/105731173
Are humans less valuable
than their own images?
Hito Steyerl: Theorist/artist addressing
the proliferation of images and how they inscribe and affect
economy and culture on both a macro and micro scale. “Images do not represent reality, they create reality, they are second
nature,” Steyerl has said.
Factory of the Sun video clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyqqiELBDZM
“A while ago I met an extremely interesting
developer in Holland. He was working on smart phone camera technology. A
representational mode of thinking photography is: there is something out there
and it will be represented by means of optical technology ideally via indexical
link. But the technology for the phone camera is quite different. As the lenses
are tiny and basically crap, about half of the data captured by the sensor are
noise. The trick is to create the algorithm to clean the picture from the noise,
or rather to define the picture from within noise. But how does the camera know
this? Very simple. It scans all other pictures stored on the phone or on your
social media networks and sifts through your contacts. It looks through the
pictures you already made, or those that are networked to you and tries to
match faces and shapes. In short: it creates the picture based on earlier
pictures, on your/its memory. It does
not only know what you saw but also what you might like to see based on your
previous choices. In other words, it speculates on your preferences and offers
an interpretation of data based on affinities to other data. The link to
the thing in front of the lens is still there, but there are also links to past
pictures that help create the picture. You don’t really photograph the present,
as the past is woven into it.
The
result might be a picture that never existed in reality, but that the phone
thinks you might like to see. It is a bet, a gamble, some combination between
repeating those things you have already seen and coming up with new versions of
these, a mixture of conservatism and fabulation. The
paradigm of representation stands to the present condition as traditional
lens-based photography does to an algorithmic, networked photography that works
with probabilities and bets on inertia. Consequently, it makes seeing
unforeseen things more difficult.”
…More http://dismagazine.com/disillusioned-2/62143/hito-steyerl-politics-of-post-representation/