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"Until The End of The World" and Digital Identity
1.0 Background
“Until the End of the World” is a 3D animated video work by Carla Gannis, for which her solo exhibition is eponymously titled. It is inspired by a a sequence in the 1991 Wim Wenders film “Until the End of the World” where a woman is addicted to watching her dreams on a screen. It converges a Read more →
The Ghosts only your Phone can see
The art work
(source is taken from: http://carlagannis.com/blog/)
Gallery name: Until the End of the World
Artist: Carla Gannis
Year: 2017
Carla Gannis’ “Until the end of the World’ exhibition is executed like the ancient Greek theater where the ‘actors will speak through a mask’. in this case the ‘mask’ is her virtual persona, one like our social media, and how we portray ourselves on that Read more →
Facebook and Reality
Many of our Facebook actions are like this. They might seem to mean nothing, and yet be taken to mean something. They might seem to mean something, and in fact mean something else
A Reply to facebook Critics D.E. Wittkower
Facebook has almost become the holy grail in which we document our lives. We are documenting our reality through posts comprising of Read more →
#life
https://www.ted.com/talks/hasan_elahi#t-618239
Hasan Elahi, a Bangladeshi-born American interdisciplinary media artist born in 1972. He is currently working as an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland. His artworks focus on technology, media, issues of surveillance and etc. In 2002, he was added to the US government’s watch list, after The September 11 attacks. He flew back from the exhibition overseas and taken Read more →
Faceboook?
Face to Facebook is an installation piece that highlights the problem with the lack of privacy because of the influx of social media, in this case, Facebook. The work takes one million Facebook profiles from the database (and processes them through a facial recognition software) and creates an online dating platform which then allows users to ‘date’ these profiles and Read more →
Poke, Spam, Tag, Friended
A Response to a Response about a Response
Facebook. The original superficial website transformed and metamorphasized into something completely new and surprisingly meaningful. That is to say that Facebook has forged an entire generation of users connected together by a mere “www” on the internet. FaceBook at its prime was the main source of communication among friends and family, especially those Read more →
Boundary-Meeting Waves; or, the Identity as it meets the Edge of the Digital
In 2015, Carla Gannis released The Selfie Drawings, a set of digital drawings expressing “the self”. It was then expanded in 2017, forming the narrative basis for Gannis’ 2017 exhibition: Until the End of the World.
From the Origin to the year 10 000, the exhibitions shows an imagined evolution of humanity, a sort of apocalypse in which “you ain’t Read more →
FBI, here I am!
In this link, you will see random images of food and places as well as Google map with an arrow pointing to one location. Those pictures belong to Hasan M. Elahi, a Bangladeshi-born American who is a interdisciplinary media artist. Those images are a part of his still on-going project called “Tracking Transcience”. Why could he possibly want to show the Read more →
Who Are You?
I feel like there is just so much to say regarding our digital identity because it is something so relevant to us right now in this time and age. We all hide behind social media platforms with an identity that we put forth on the web for everyone all around the world to see.
If we choose how we present ourselves, Read more →
Exposed!
Our identity is what makes us uniquely different. In today’s day and age though, we might choose to replicate or imitate someone else, especially with the flexibility and freedom of social media. We might choose to be ‘someone else’ by filtering out what we post, control what we share or use an overly-flattering selfie. As mentioned by Wittkower, ‘[t]his is Read more →