Video: Facebook wall, but not the same: photos taken from the social network as a symbol of excess information
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Jorn Roder and Jonathan Pirnei, students of the German University of Visual Arts and Design in Kassel, have created an installation about modern society in the digital age. All life, alas, has long been not a theater, but Facebook. True, they have something in common. As in the theater, the social network lacks the fourth wall - and all the "actors" are in full view for … the same "actors" from neighboring virtual pages. The massive online skit attracted the attention of Jorn Roder and Jonathan Pirney, the authors of social network photo wallpapers.
Students Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay have posted a lot of user photos on 4 Facebook walls, and others have taken them to the Facebook ceiling. All materials for the installation "FB Faces" ("fbFaces") were taken from the profiles of the same social network.
To cover the walls of Facebook with a kind of photo wallpaper, it took 100 thousand photos to download. The authors of the installation did not do this themselves - they wrote a program that went to the profile page, loaded the main photo, saved the names and IDs of the users, and then transferred them to their friends. Who knows, maybe among the 100 thousand faces of the Facebook art wall you can see your friends, acquaintances, yourself?
The authors of the installation say that in this work they tried to "visualize a huge amount of information and images that are falling on us every day, so that we no longer notice how great this flow is." And how gray it is: a lot of bright pictures on the walls look like a gray mass. Isn't the same thing happening in our brain?
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