On Thu, 5 Mar, 2015 at 5:26 AM, ruth catlow
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 04/03/15 16:19, Randall Packer wrote:
It is my personal opinion that social media promises,
at least in part a new look at the collective forms that
emerged in the 1960s & 1970s. I don’t want to go into a
full-blown lecture here (my students get enough of that), but the
link between the Happening and social media platforms such as
Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, the mailing lists, etc., suggest there is
plenty of creative room for improvisation and audience engagement +
interaction + remix in this form of participatory, collective
narrative via the network.
I have heard eminent artists and theorists make this argument before
and it feels all wrong to me.
Social medial platforms are designed by commercial companies to
elicit very particular types of normalising exchange between masses
of people.
People normalise themselves in any given environment, I think.
One interesting thing about social media is the way each successive
successful platform is colonized by a new generation of young people (a
high school generation is 2-4 years...). This both makes platforms'
claims to success less impressive (much of it is merely generational),
and the problem of making free alternatives more difficult (if they
become successful they will soon become uncool).
From the perspective of the platform providers, the purpose of the
users actions and interactions is to squirt lucrative data.
The functioning of Happenings and Intermedial exchange was to
detourn, restructure, or re-make social relations- if only for a
short duration.
Temporary Autonomous Zones?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Autonomous_Zone
They were a very popular idea in some 90s net thought iirc.
I don't see any general connection with mass social media usage.
There may be a negative connection. Both are social frames to elicit
particular behaviours.
There have been media art projects that critique and expose the logic
of the platforms. Moddr_'s Web 2.0 Suicide Machine
<http://suicidemachine.org/>, Commodify Us <https://commodify.us/>,.
Marc interviewed them here
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/reviews/commodify-us-our-data-our-terms
There's also Naked on Pluto by Dave
Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk:
http://furtherfield.org/netbehaviour/naked-pluto-video
And #Prisom by Andy Campbell and Mez Breeze:
http://dreamingmethods.com/prisom/
This is why Furtherfield bangs on about the importance of Free and
Open culture (in arts and software)
<http://p2pfoundation.net/World_of_Free_and_Open_Source_Art>
+1 :-)
- Rob.
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