Discussion

Choose any of these:

• Social media and algorithms
• Social media and time
• Social media and isolation
• Social media and generational  – young and old
• Social media as ‘enhancement’ of experience
• Social media and memes, hacks, etc.
• Social media as a business model.
• How you personally use social media?

Please include at least one of the following:

• Can Social media be farmed/harvested for use in Art? or for Art content? Show related works via link/image. Hint: Paul Cirio is one artist we have looked at who does use data from social media. Also, James Bridle, Jonah Bruckner-Cohen and Katherine Moriawaki.
• If John Cage were to use Twitter what would he do with it?
• Here is the article by Julian Dibbell A Rape in Cyberspace (Links to an external site.) that I mentioned, about one of the earliest “virtual communities” LambdaMOO (Rheingold).  How do you respond to this article?

Required Reading and Works:

Lippard, L. Sweeping Exchanges: The Contribution of Feminists to the Art of the 1970s. Lippard-Sweeping-Exchanges-Smith.pdf

Check this out – VNS Matrix – https://vnsmatrix.net/ (Links to an external site.)

The Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century, 1991

https://vnsmatrix.net/projects/the-cyberfeminist-manifesto-for-the-21st-century (Links to an external site.)

Michael Rush, Ch. 2, Video Art, pp. 97-120. (complete) New_Media_02.pdf

Video, Games, Actions & New Media 

Carrie Mae Weems takes over Lincoln Center to Highlight COVID-19 Impact on Communities of Color (Links to an external site.)

Black Room (Links to an external site.) Feminist dungeon crawler by Cassie McQuater, http://www.cassiemcquater.com/

Milk Debt by Patty Chang

https://18thstreet.org/event/patty-chang-milk-debt/ (Links to an external site.)

The Rifles by the She Loves Collective

https://shelovescollective.com/index.php/the-rifles/ (Links to an external site.)

Sondra Perry: Typhoon coming on

Ana Mendieta: Traces/Stopy | Krátký dokument | Galerie Rudolfinum

Yoko Ono – Cut Piece (1965)

Martha Rosler about "Bringing War Home"

Adrian Piper, Mythic Being 1973

Suzanne Lacy

https://suzanne-lacy.squarespace.com/three-weeks-in-january (Links to an external site.)

https://www.suzannelacy.com/exhibitions (Links to an external site.)