social media

I Stalk Myself More Than I Should

Sofia Braga (IT)

You are your number one stalker. *I Stalk Myself More Than I Should* shows a selection of Instagram Stories that have been documented and archived through the use of screen recordings. The work thus displays an archive of memories designed to disappear from the online platform within 24 hours. In contrast to the nature of this feature, the project explores forms of appropriation, interpretation and representation, as well as the qualities and hierarchies of collective memories shared and stored online.

Privacy Machine

Timm Burkhardt (DE)

An electronic way to say, “I want to be private today and not appear in your social media photos.” Privacy Machine is a working proof of concept: stand in front of the screen and take the badge or the scarf. Both have a special pattern on it. As long as this pattern is recognized by the camera, the software will pixelate your face. It‘s an unrealistic wish because manufacturers would have to integrate this software into their smartphones as a default.

Feminist Data Set

Caroline Sinders (US)

Feminist Data Set acts as a means to combat bias and introduce the possibility of data collection as a feminist practice, aiming to produce a slice of data to intervene in larger civic and private networks. Exploring its potential to disrupt larger systems by generating new forms of agency, this work asks: can data collection itself function as an artwork?

Facebook Algorithmic Factory

Vladan Joler (RS)

Facebook Algorithmic Factory sheds light on the invisible processes that take place inside the world’s largest social network. Inside this black box, non-transparent algorithms are deciding what kind of content will become a part of our reality, what will be censored or deleted, which ideas will spread and what news will gain most visibility. They are also defining new forms of labour and exploitation.

The Work of Art in The Age of Instastory

Reza Zefanya Mulia (ID)

The Work of Art in The Age of Instastory seeks the possibility of how an artwork could be appreciated properly when it has been developed into a short-term digital content that only lasts for 24 hours on social media. Using two contrasting objects—hand-drawn works on paper and three smartphones with looping videos—the installation also raises questions about whether social media posts can do justice to both exhibited artworks and the artists themselves.