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. 

Guthrie Lonergan

Guthrie Lonergan is an internet web artist that i found this week. This is her Myspace intro playlist. I copied over her statement on the piece, because I cant rewrite it in anyway, it says it all.

"Searching for something else on YouTube, I ran into a billion 'Myspace intro videos' - people videotaping themselves addressing visitors to their page. It's really quite odd to see them separated from Myspace (they're on YouTube only so they can put them on their profiles, but you can still find them through searching.) I collected them into a playlist (or just use the controls above.) You'll get the idea from the first couple of videos.

I really don't want to make fun of these people, and there's really nothing shocking about them, they're incredibly normal people... But in some of them I sense this sort of awkwardness (?) that they have dealing with the Internet. These are very un-nerdy people making their own webpages, telling you to leave "picture comments," and pointing in the direction of where the "send message" button is on the page... I'm still trying to figure out what's going on here. Anyway, the videos are fun!"

This is a link to see the video piece it self, enjoy. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRhSeoBk2zg&list=PLEBF5D6DC4589D7B7

Declan Clarke

Declan Clarke is an Irish video and photography artist that was a visiting artist this week in college. He talked us threw his residencies and artworks in regard to video and narrative video.

We'll Be This Way Until the End of the World, 2008 is a video piece by Clarke. This is piece is dedicated to Daniel O' Connoll, as he films a sculpture dedicated to him on O'Connell street in Dublin. the sculpture of four female figures with wings, have gun shot wounds from the Easter Rising of 1916.  the entry wound is  so smooth it looks like it could be part of the sculpture to remember the hard ship of the Irish people where as the exit hole is so jagged it also gives this feeling as well.

Clarke also made a series of Videos where he changed monuments in a humorous way. Washing's Done, 2002 is a piece done in front of the Washington Monument. He did many other pieces like this, the Wellington Monument in Phoenix Park and Plinth in Bucharest and showed them all together on old TVs at an exhibition he did.