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Go Rando  Benjamin Grosser, 2017

Nowadays on social media most people do not use their real names and some of them share the over photoshopped pictures, we think we can hide ourself and our true feelings and just show people what we want them to see. However some details that we do everyday on social media reveal our  true emotions, for instance, “Facebook’s “reactions” let you express how you feel about a link, photo, or status.” Once you click “Like” your personal data is collected and it could be used by companies government or other social media platform for big data anaylising. Go Rando uses social media to against social media collecting our personal data, it also confuses corporate and governmental surveillance. The problem is the reaction of the people in your contacts. Someone caught up with Ben said: “I’d be too worried about the way my contacts would judge the assigned reactions. “Would I offend or shock anyone?” Are you expecting that many people will be as coward as I am? And more generally, what are you expecting people to discover or reflect upon with this work?” “However, whether one uses Go Rando or not, my intention for this work is to provoke individual consideration of the methods and effects of emotional surveillance.” said Ben.

The Garden of Emoji Delights  Carla Gannis

Emoji has become an international language on social media, it express how we feel when we text others, Carla Gannis recreated The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch with emojis. The Garden of Earthly Delights became a place full of joy. She uses the trendy vocabulary of signs and digital symbols to disclose the problems that are happening on social media and in our society, “The digital creatures in this work express our emotional obscurity and ambiguity in communicating our feelings, unveiling the technological codifications of today’s language and the intimate, psychological impact of consumer culture on our expressions, gestures and actions.”

We Feel Fine- Jonathan Harris, online project- 2005

This system used by artist to collect millions of datas of emotional posts on social media and gather them together. “Every few minutes, the system used by the artist searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.).” It collects the data of human feelings and analyze them so that we can know how many people are feeling in the same way like you, i think it helps people to develop the sense of group belonging and make people feel like they are not alone when they feel sad or happy.This is a artwork that makes the world smaller.

Experiment:

Emojis On The Beach:

Sources:

1.We Feel Fine 

http://wefeelfine.org/api.html

2.Regin,2017.Obfuscates your feelings on Facebook and defeat its algorithms in the process

http://we-make-money-not-art.com/obfuscates-your-feelings-on-facebook-and-defeat-its-algorithms-in-the-process/

3.Social Media in Contemporary Art

https://blog.artsper.com/en/lifestyle/social-media-todays-art/

4.Carla Gannis ,The Garden of Emoji Delights

Online videos have taken a big part of social media, there are a lot of difference between Chinese and Western online video art, for example YouTube and YouKu.

YouTube was funded in 2005, “it is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos.” It plays an important role of shaping internet and pop culture.The mainstream art is included on most channels on YouTube such as music, short film, fashion, tutorials etc. Most of them are created and uploaded  by individuals or studios.

-PAQ  464,397 subscribers 37,846,038 views (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvO6uJUVJQ6SrATfsWR5_aA)

PAQ is a network TV show about streetwear, fashion, menswear and clothes.They upload a new episode every week to share how they create a look and how to style different clothes and share their opinion on fashion. It is a great channel for people to know british fashion culture.

-MYM:Million Youth Media  168,353 subscribers 23,304,335 views (https://www.youtube.com/user/MillionYouthMedia)

It is a short film channel that “most of the content is written, directed and produced by the Fully Focused Team where young people work closely with industry professionals to achieve award-winning results. They showcase films made by their team in training and by some of the most exciting filmmakers across the UK and beyond.” this channel is a great platform for young generation who have passion in film industry .

-COLORS  2,248,806 subscribers  541,322,271 vies (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Qw1dzXDBAZPwS7zm37g8g) COLORS is a aesthetic music platform to promote new artists and original sounds.The simple sold color has a nice combination with the artists’ outfit in every video , which is really unique .

YouKu was funded in 2006, after merging with Tudou and being acquired by Alibaba Group most videos on YouKu are “rebroadcasts of TV shows with ads of their own and copyright permissions from TV broadcasters already in place. Although it also has user-generated videos, 70% of viewers use it to watch TV series, movies and variety shows.” As for the art videos i have found some channels about short film.

-猫和树Cattree  200,00 subscribers 212,000,0 views (http://i.youku.com/yuanpeisen) It is  a channel produces videos with the content of love stories or friendships some  of them are wedding traveling journals. They have a atheistic style and the contents of each video make people relatable and touched.

-小情书LOVOTE  12,000  subscribers  290,000,0 views (http://i.youku.com/xiaoqingshu) They produce videos of love stories and it also more like a music video.

In conclusion, there are a great amount of videos about art on YouTube, people from all around the world share their creative ideas on music, fashion, film and art even on some software or camera technic tutorials which helps people to have a support for making their won artwork. I personally always watch software tutorials and i can also get inspiration from other creative YouTubers. However there are not as many full version films or TV shows as YouKu has. Compared to YouTube it is true that it is convenient for people to watch movies and rebroadcasts of TV shows on YouKu since most of them are free but there are lack of creative and original videos about art from individuals.

My Online Video:

I’m Thinking About Ending This (https://youtu.be/h1OLn14uo9g)

I’m Thinking About Ending This is a short film about how people who live with depression feel and raising public attention of caring about mental illness patients .

Sources:

1.Youku vs. YouTube: Why Youku is the Brand Favourite

https://chozan.co/2017/04/13/youku-vs-youtube-why-youku-is-the-brand-favourite/

2.Explained: What is YouTube?

https://www.webwise.ie/parents/what-is-youtube/

1.Zevs

His best known art work is the Liquidation series, he re-paint the recognizable logs with liquid to transfer them to a new logo that is different from what people have known. He said: "Of course, there is a graffiti aesthetic to my art but I primarily play with the visual effect. I use the original colours and re-paint the logo with excess. By pouring paint over them, the logo dissolves in front of the viewer’s eyes, drawing attention to, and visually disturbing the recognisable and omnipresent trademark. By doing so, I try to investigate the logo’s visual power. It’s a simple gesture, just as in Aikido when you reverse the power and change the flow of energy.” He uses the unique Liquidated Logos to catch public attention. Advertisements are everywhere , we can see the logo of Nike, Chanel, McDonalds，Giorgio Armani，Louis Vuitton，Coca Cola and Apple our lives are kind of controlled by these big companies thus his art works are tend to free people from the advertisements and logos of big companies and to express an opposing force.

2.Graffiti research lab: Evan Roth and James

Nowadays advertisements are everywhere in our cities. Graffiti research lab uses the high-tech of projection to allow individuals to put their own ideas into the cities .It embodies protests against the city, and there should be more art in the cities we live in than commercial advertisements that attract people's attention to control people and make people consume. It makes money for a company but for us it's just a billboard without feelings.“It embodies protests against the city, and there should be more art in the cities we live in than commercial advertisements that attract people's attention to control people and make people consume. It makes money for a company but for us it's just a billboard without feelings.” James said. This is also about being liberal James said “art organizations tend to be the least liberal. They’re made up of liberal people who are scrounging around for tiny amounts of dollars, and the people who hold these dollars tend to be from that dominant culture, so these art organizations find themselves in the position where, more than others, have to censor the works. So we got into the practice of turning down commissions you’d be surprised how much an art museum is willing to censor its artists.”

3.Steve Mann

His work Maybe Cam records our lives, personal images, etc. from a first-person perspective. It can record the whole process of an accident when we are in danger, and can promote our lives in various ways, such as enhancing vision when necessary. “With the growing population of the elderly, and those with failing eyesight, the camera represents a useful seeing aid, the digital image often being sharper and clearer than that of bifocals or akward compound-lens eyewear.”Steve Mann said. Maybe Cam also provides a balance between surveillance and anti-surveillance. Because cameras are everywhere these days ,in stores, streets,schools and work places,etc. Everything we do are being watched, Steve Mann said “We need some way to guard against the possibility that surveillance may push crime up into the middle rungs of the "ladder of life", and that oversight may push crime up to the top rungs. A proposed solution to this problem is sousveillance, in particular, inverse-surveillance, as a way of balancing an otherwise one-sided "surveillance-only" society. Inverse surveillance might, for example, include citizens photographing police misconduct, shoppers photographing shopkeepers, and passengers photographing reckless cab drivers from within the very cab that might, for example, be involved in an automobile accident. This sort of information, taken from below, then communicated and spread through a social/media network can achieve a level of sousveillance-efficacy ("swollag") that may result in a change in policy. An important aspect of inverse surveillance is that it emanates from individuals recording their personal experience and their immediate vicinity, rather than the recording/monitoring of individuals by an outside party.”

Experiment:

A way to deliver messages  secretly. 1.Use common memories between two people, such as unforgettable things happening at a certain time to remind the other of the key word. because the memory was between you and your partner so there will not be the third person know about it.

2.Take the first letter of random words to form a keyword.

1.https://editor.p5js.org/[email protected]/embed/BJ0zmp7jm

2. https://editor.p5js.org/[email protected]/embed/HkuT2nXsQ

3. https://editor.p5js.org/[email protected]/embed/BJxu7m_mjQ

https://editor.p5js.org/embed/rJ14_OQjm

https://editor.p5js.org/embed/BkCNvAmiQ

I made an online applet, using the way of fun and jokes. When you scan the code, there will be a blank screen. Then you can click anywhere on the screen, and a hair will appear. You will continue to click more spots and hair.

The appearance of these hair and spots should have been endless, but due to the technical means have not yet been achieved, I will continue to work on it.

https://file69eeb83ff5ac.iamh5.cn/v3/idea/1NXNB1eS

1.memes: i made this meme because this is how i feel every time when i bought my new sneakers.

2.Vlog: This a short vlog that i posted on YouTube and Instagram of a day in St Albans.

https://youtu.be/nPfYxSXG_Ok

1.LOVE by GROUP Z, BELGIUM (MICHAËL SAMYN) 1995

This work contains 7 series of stories and it is navigable, users click on the arrows to go through every page, which is like a narrative game. The images and texts shows us many different experience and periods related to romantic love. There is a page really appealed me , users can type their own name and the name of their loved ones in that page and it will be shown in a long list ,which is a great way to interact with users ,to make them feel like they are part of this work.“It is sort of like an old tree in which you can carve your name and the name of the one you love,” the site explained. Love is always from one person to another person just like communication,as MICHAËL SAMYN said “The net is very intimate  medium.probably because communication is always one to one: there is alway one user infront of his or her compeer looking at one page.” 

2.into time.com by RAFAËL ROZENDAAL2010 

On this website, when users click the screen will be divided and a new gradient will be added ,then the screen will turn to be complicated and abstract from a simple gradient. users can use this interactive website  to recreate some abstract artwork that belongs to themselves ,which is also a good way to involve users into this artwork.The artist also transferred this work to  a wide range of formats and contexts.Physical installations, works on paper, and lenticular objects, physical installation is something that related to the practice i want to do.When i was using this website i feel like time and space could be infinity.

3.Old Web Today ,a service for Rhizome.org

Oldweb.today is for browsing the old website inside a modern browser . It is kind of like a time traveling  machine ,it really takes us back to the history of website and shows us how the old website look like . What makes it more like a time machine is you are in a queue waiting for traveling to the old website.

I have tried to see what old Youtube and some other website  look like .

it helps new generations to learn about the history net art such as the design of the website and it is also a through back to old generations.