User:Themsen/SDR-6/WAT
W.A.T.
Serious description
- What: The banality of the web can often be a mirror to other practices we may find banal in the real world. Like, running. Who actually runs for the sake of running? I mean, I realize it's exercise but running is a sport which should have a goal other than to run. The collection contains all manner of things which I find banal, and so I put a twist to running. If it has no goal, then why not move in place? Like a threadmill. The example of running is quite specific, but bear with me. There is a already a real version of running without a goal; but how about in the virtual? In MMORPGs you always run with a goal; in fact, you never walk. If you run without a purpose in a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game you're bound to get killed by all manner of nasty creatures and pitfalls. And so- the meaning of purpose interchange with each other; the virtual MMORPG could be seen as meaningless, but at least the activity of running has a purpose.
How
Why
WAT ARE TIS
- WAT: "WAT", OR "WAT ARE TIS" IS A CAMPAIGN OF VIRTUAL CULTURAL INJECTIONS 2015-16
- HOE: A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT INJECTIONS INTO CYBERNETIC SPACE MEANT TO DISRUPT AND RECONTEXTUALIZE FAMILIAR CYBERNETIC SPACES SUCH AS FACEBOOK, PHOTOBOOKS, ATHLETICS, ACADEMIA, SKYPE, YOUTUBE, VISUAL ART, MY LAPTOP, WALKING, STUDYING, CALL CENTER QUEUES, WRITING, AND LAST-BUT NOT LEAST- EXHIBITION
- WHY: I REALIZED VERY LATE THAT IN ORDER TO MAKE I HAVE TO HAVE FUN, AND BE SIMPLE WITH MY APPROACH TOWARDS ART. I HAVE DONE LITTLE PROGRESS WITH EXPLAINING THE COMPLEX METAPHORS BETWEEN SOCIETIES OF CONTROL AND MYCELLIUM, IN FACT: I WAS STUCK, SO LET'S CHANGE TRACKS! I HAVE A LARGE AFFECTION FOR INTERNET CULTURE, AND I HAVE MOSTLY LOOKED AT IT FROM A FAR VANTAGE POINT. THE VIRTUAL KIDNAPPING PROJECT WAS MY FIRST SUCCESS IN MEDIA DESIGN, SO LET ME CONTINUE THAT PRACTICE. LET'S SEE WHAT GROWS OUT OF THIS. IN THE SPIRIT OF DETOURNEMENT AND SITUATIONISM, AND ALL OF WHAT I HAVEN'T DONE Y
RELATION TO FORMER PRACTICE
- Artificial Voice Distortion Experiment
- The Archive of the Transcendental Archive
- The Procedural Photobook
- Virtual Kidnapping
- Skype & Cigarettes
CURRENT PRACTICE
- The Procedural Photobook
- Club Queue
FUTURE PRACTICE
- WAT ARE TIS QUEUE
- WAT ARE TIS EXERCISING
- WAT ARE TIS ART
- WAT ARE TIS WORKING
- WAT ARE TIS EXHIBITION
- WAT ARE TIS EXHIBIT
- WAT ARE TIS TROLLS
INFLUENCES
- The Situationist Manifesto, G. Debord
- [The Society of the Spectacle, G. Debord]
- The Production of Space, H. Lefebvre
- [Dazed, H. Steyerl]
- [General Idea: SHUT THE FUCK UP]
- to be continued