Internet Project - Masked Portrait

This was my final piece of work for this project. It was an experimental piece I was making that I found just worked. It’s more based on my body image concept then any of the rest of my pieces. My idea behind this piece is to show a mask, something that every one of us wears. Here I used Photoshop, to add in the Snapchat images of my sister, over a previously created image. I was trying to achieve a sense that the Snapchat images, are the mask she lets the outside world see, whether its to a group of people or to just one person. Then behind it, you see this innocent girl, looking emotionless, isolated, as if she doesn't know if she fits within the standards of today’s society. I didn't block some of the words as they represent a part of her that not many people see, but also represent many women, how they feel in today’s world. 

Snapchat Story

Snapchat video:

My idea for this project came after I watched a documentary on the safety of the Internet, how what we think is private actually is not. It also highlighted how they actually own our images on media sites such as Facebook, because of changes to contracts that we are not made aware of. From this I decided to take the Application of Snapchat, a soft wear designed to send an image to multiple people, for a set number of seconds, and then its gone. How ever the massive loophole is screen shooting on a phone. I used this screen shooting, to capture a large amount of images of my sister of a period of weeks. From this I made two videos, the first one was a couple of seconds long, showing each image in the fraction of a second. This was to show, the fast amount of images our generation shares on this app, on a daily basis. The number actually is on average 276,000 images are shared a minute. I didn't have that many images in my video but you do get a feel of it because it is goes very fast.

She second video I made, I attempted to make short stories out of the Snapchat she sent me. Some were humorous, but others not so much. This video was much harder to make, but I was trying to make it like the story option the Snapchat app has. 

Here are a few stills from it 

 

Glitching

I had a video made at the end of second year, but when my hard drive broke i could only retrieve some of the files. What I retrieved from the video was corrupted, was stopping and freezing on some imagery and overlapping others. This got me thinking about the concept of corrupted imagery. By attempting to glitch images myself, I was trying to achieve a feeling of corruption. This is a massive issue that is happening to many children and young teenagers, due to the availability of the Internet in today’s world. For this I used previously created images that have been heavily involved with my concept of body image, as my research has taught me about the corruption of body image by the Internet.

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The Self

A series of images I did last week for college, trying 

out self image and the mirror, using a mirror because 

of how influential it is in our every day lives. 

Internet Aware Project and Corruption

Artist statement

Teenagers in the modern world are addicted to social media and the internet, but who’s to blame them? They were born into it. While this can be a good thing it also is has a negative side to teenagers when it comes to body image, and growing up. Now at a touch of a button they can learn and see anything. This means the coding and corruption of their young minds is much easier.

Teenagers these days have created their own language, that we to have influenced. They have to obey rules to social networking sites changing the way they write and how they say things.

From these, we have access to things being shared, and advertisements, which are most often about celebrities, and how to “improve” your body. Both sexes are available to seeing this, yet girls are targeted a lot more, brainwashing them into a way of thinking.

My work is based on research around this and how this     influences these girls into a way of changing who they are.

             

Dasha Battelle

Dasha Battelle is a New Yoke based snapchat artist and enthusiast.
Her work consist of working with the world widely known phone app snapchat, and she creates fictional images her fingertips. I love her work because it is on a medium of this day and age. Her really creative images are so eye catching and really interesting. Her vast amount of imagery is incredible. Im fascinated with the fairy tale style and I love keeping a regular update to see any new images of hers.

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Corruption

This is a series of images I created as part of my Internet awear brief. It isn't something I'm happy with, it just wouldn't work out for me. I used images I had created for this brief and my Christmas Assessments but i couldn't get my head around some of the software's where you can create proper corrupted images. However I tried something i wanted to do and failed and discovered it was not for me. Sure isn't that why I'm here :D.

My idea behind this was that we are so coded into the life of technology and the Internet that we couldn't live with out it. The Internet however is a dangerous place and after research into the privacy of the Internet iv discovered, not this totally privacy. By the use of screen shooting snap chat stories, (an image that was meant to have disappeared after a set number of seconds 1-10 by sender), and over lapping them onto an image of my sister, I tried to achieve this sense of her innocent sense being hidden behind the mask she gives off over the Internet.  Then by trying to corrupt these, it was to show how the Internet can code us.

Parker Ito

Parker Ito is a LA based artist who works on the Internet medium and changes oil paintings into Internet pieces.

"Parker Ito may be best known for his ongoing obsession with "The Most Infamous Girl in the History of the Internet/Attractive Student/Parked Domain Girl" (2010-13), a stock photo that frequently appears on vacant websites, which Ito has had turned into numerous oil paintings over the years. Though he is an avid web user and draws on it extensively, he creates a considerable amount of physical artwork in addition to his Internet-based practice."

Photography and Memory

Photography and memory class was about 21 questions, to do with obviously photography and our memory. It was to challenge us into a way of thinking. 

My approach to this was by using one question to answer some of the others. the third question was to take a photograph at the same time every day. I did this twice, October - November and December to January, 30 days each, to see the difference between them. 

The two videos below are that f these months. From this i answered a few of the questions. 

- to take an infinite photograph - My presented image was that of an image of a projection, how the projection was infinite from where it came from and how its going to be continually shown, making it infinite. 

-Do not take a photo, do not remember. For this i had forgotten a day in one of the 30 days and it made me realise, by taking a photograph every other day it let me remember something about that day but with the blank day i could remember anything about it.