Media spreads an atmosphere of fear to control people and from the beginning I've experienced it as highly intrusive,(Initially I felt shock that with such a actual health-threat media was still focused on writing big headlines that they knew would induce fear - this felt like a irresponsible and damaging energy to put into the world - but as I gather these people act in service of what they believe to be the right thing, which legitimises their words - even if they aren't always 'right') it's a mass-controlling mechanism and I suspect media wouldn't shy away from exaggeration for means of control e.i. you see news channels stretching their corona-content indefinitely, common knowledge tells you that with a fairly unknown thing in constant development you statistically could not be 'right' the entire time and hence should deal more transparently with the information you disseminate as apposed to selling a story you eventually cannot back out of. It seems, inevitably, one might talk themselves into a corner and not feel they could admit they didn't know everything at every moment or where 'wrong', hence holding on to incorrect narratives.

> how language mirrors our understanding and makes this connection between Covid-19 and techno-paranoia traceable

> in which sense is the technological roll-out into the networked world undemocratic? Regional inequality or meaning that, the network governs over us yet it is privately owned?



Documentaries to watch :
Hypernormalisation - Adam Curtis
Das Netz - Film von Lutz Dammbeck

GAN imagery - generated photos - Kunstforum.de
Jasmin's project : created a persona and sold worn underwear

Is my art better when I have likes?
Sitting behind Webcam feels voyeuristic because it is mediated.
If you google for your opinion you will find it
Does instagram-ability diminish art?
What does the mobile-screen do with art?

Alltags Experimente
Reena Spauldings The Novel - http://www.reenaspaulings.com/
http://www.bernadettecorporation.com/
Mechanical Kirk
Mail Art - Corona Crisis collaboration
Possibility to re-tool a project to think more about Post-Internet

How do we move on with exhibitions? How do you get your work out? / how to project creative work?

Where is the line with Post-Internet ; is it enough to take and Photoshop? For me no; there needs to be some added thought or artistic technique

Avoid - Copy and Paste; importance for own artistic practice to create original content

Laptop is Mothership > work alone > raised to be individual
in times of Corona for him Workflow increased but awareness decreased which makes me question - Do you need others for awareness?

'Social Media Venacular'

Hugh's idea: to present his work in a rendered room >> a room portfolio > accessible on all devices ; fits his typ of aesthetic

Talked about his "faux-corporate nightmare" but also about the joy of collaborating and connecting almost turning a 'artwork' into a performance art collaborative piece

liked how he said "starved for something to do"

http://rundgang.hfbk.net/
HFBK in Hamburg created a 3D model of their university and created the IRL exhibition - captured with 360° images and posted into URL exhibition > Reality made virtual


But we'd also have the opportunity to make something more and create things that could not happen and wouldn't work in real-life

Or create an exhibition in a desirable gallery space e.g. Guggenheim or MOMA
>> Overall an exhibition corresponding to the Topic of the course IRL vs. URL

Project Idea: Using Instagram Filters like Cindy Sherman adding the outfits and the environment and but letting the Filter take my face turning me into e.g. an alien or an elf

Notes from session: 

Two points for discussion or clarification:

For the course overall we can think about - do we want to do a virtual presentation?

Thoughts on the text:
Do you have any ideas that could be considered conspiracy theory or magical thinking e.g. homeopathy , healing crystals?

Do you know people who think differently and are cast as conspiratorial? e.g. crazy aunt?

> interesting also to look into the idea of animal magnetism - healing through energy of the body - questioning our beliefs as they have continued to progress throughout history.

For me: to not discredit because every thought has an origin
How language shapes perception


Conspiracy theories and the foundational thinking behind them

I also need to consider the 'selfie-range' ... not needed because filters work with front camera

Could also do an aged portrait - like 'series' by @herrensauna

Inspiration for possible IRL vs. URL exhibition at end of semester!

Text is about immunity/community model and how we will deal with Covid-19 Pandemic on a global scale in times of pharmacopornographic control/sovereignty.
"At the center of the debate during and after this crisis will be which lives are the ones we want to save. " p.8 : authors opinion for the article but I don't know that this debate is being held.

After looking at history of threatening viruses and how society generally immunises itself by excluding de-munized bodies.

A shift has started to take place from the forms of disciplinary and architectural control to forms of microprosthetic and media-cybernetic control. We can see these two strategies being deployed by different nations ( *note: both these are being accepted and no one wants to acknowledge - or if never without hard criticism- Sweden who bank on individual agency/social responsibility)

Starting page 9 going into pages 10 - 11 the author argues that the methods to immunise our societies e.g. in Europe and the US, which in recent years took the form of iron borders to restore national integrity and political sovereignty, is now shifting from the outer borders to the individual.

The end aim is to construct nations with immunized communities (immunized against the outsiders/foreigners, considered infectious to the community), which we see mirrored in border politics.

Author calls this the neo-sovereignist governmentality: We believe that to achieve sovereignty we need to immunise

*Clarifying question: what does immunity fully mean here?
'political immunity' - as in self governing nations (also in economic sense?) 
or on a cultural - even religious level - deciding who doesn't belong because they might threaten the status quo or quality of living on individual/societal level
* Immunized community - rejecting those that don't belong as those de-munized are striped of all community privileges because they are viewed as posing a threat to society

"What is being tested on a global scale through the management of Covid 19 - is a new way of understanding sovereignty."

The individual body is now the new territory where the border politics that have been designed and "tested" previously on "others" are now applied - In the form of measures in a war against the virus.

Epidemics through their state of exception are catalysts for social innovation and change.
Author looks at historical shift from how society dealt with leprosy by excluding those viewed as threat to society as opposed to 'plague management' which started with tactics of disciplinary management: strict segmentation and confinement of the home . the first of the two strategies we see in the Covid-19 management.

The Covid crisis creates a whole new angle on the digital divide and virtual realities like virtual sight and idea of touch. For VR project it might be an idea to also create a human sculpture which can be approached..

Due to Corona we are forced to think about the space we are in: room becomes the gym, the classroom, the yoga studio. (We see many people who once confronted with their space in the extreme made home-improvements. Hypothesis : normally most people don't consciously think about space surrounding them - the air you breath.
Now as an actual Biological condition dominates our lives - how will we integrate this into design.

Privat space - public space - vulnerable space - latent space - empty space - shared space

>Such contemplations on space could flow into an exhibition design!

Not directly, but somehow connected to using space in a different - artistic - way due to Corona.

General:

Summary pages 10- 11:

Random idea: 'Bio-facetracking' through the spots on my face.

Limitations of the AI mirrors thoughts of society

+ 'The Net' documentary

TFWNGF

2nd chapter 'Kill all normies'

Keywords:
doxxing
trolling

Figuring out where do I stand - is social media activism

Politicians have given their power away to the market
e.g. you would think that monopolisation and disruption through providers like Amazon should be controlled but it is not in a free market.
> See this in the context of Accelerationism - how it shows the flaws of capitalism
and " shows the indifference of the market to the human consequences' e.g. see in Pandemic they are doing even BETTER - so resulting from but detached from human life

Fast fashion - constant flux if new products in the stores - no longer seasons

"concept of disruption" - revolution as the disruption of disruptions

Final summary - digital - URL exhibition > PDF? !

On which topic?
Doxxing?

"You feel how the intensities of his psychic makeup form his work"
has a meta relationship to his psychic turbulence or something

some curators are a bit over enthusiastic "this is some of the most interesting American poetry"

talking about 'being condition to be racist - as a white person in America' - like a dog trained on a leash

Jordan as a 'genius artist' who draws directly from his own experience of separatism as a Jew, his 'feeling abused by love' , dealing with issues of race ( colours sculpture in what looks almost like a lynching scene')

Not at war with art scene but the art scene is too safe, very conservative, it's not critical and policies/ regalements itself because artists don't dare to be truly radical or transgressive ( not at war but not subscribing to them) 
Jordan has an idea, catches it and doesn't criticise/analyse it so as not to destroy it - he fights fear - if I criticise it it will pollute it , don't think " if I do that someone is going to think' - there is so much fear
playing an artists persona?
girlfriend says" it's him performing this act of being uninhibited" ( also I'm generally quite surprised at how open and honestly the girlfriend lays out her analysis /perception of his person)


I actually love how he thinks about topics and dares to deal with them, simply as an open dialogue or in his case rather taking a match lighting it and throwing it behind himself - similar to how sometimes in conversation I will talk about a topic, without pledging my allegiance just wanting to talk about it and people immediately assume if I am talking about it openly, objectively, when I am not immediately completely stonewalling and against something that I MUST be for it and they can't deal.

He gives himself the permission to explore something in his sphere - and others don't want him to take it.

Seeing his work also reminds me of the interview with Ivana Basic and the autobiographical characteristics of it - how both become the work, how the work carries all of the trauma, psychology, emotion of the artist in it, and it becomes a tenor, it communicates, you can feel it.
& also just showing something people experience, go through, a little boy playing with his penis and figuring out what it can do is such a universal experience I would think, each child having their own moments of familiarising oneself with their body and the shame so immediately given by the society to that child and the shame that is felt when remembering exploring ones own body. To visualise such a universal yet taboo theme is very powerful and to many offensive.

There is so much power in his work as the very real, raw human voice comes out of these stylised animations - they contrast and the words are so blunt, honest and 'incorrect' , it feel almost like you're listening to a psychopath - also talking about relationship constructs that are so real - we've witnessed them around us, maybe even bin in one but no one speaks these things so openly.


Artists creating from a state of complete lack of inhibition - 'not morally policed'

'people who don't feel uncomfortable in their skin don't become artists - can I say that?"
The need.

Suggestions for Topic related to Post-Internet Art


anthropocene, circulationism, transhumanism, virality, alt- right, face tune, deep fakes, doxxing, wokeness, cancel culture, #metoo, NRx, OOO, furries/cosplay, health goths, gopnik style, vetements, normcore, eckhaus latta, virtual imagespaces, digital aesthetics, AI, uncanny valley, second life, pokemon go, vvork, contemporary art daily, new technologies and production processes, big data, content marketing, influencer culture, surveillance capitalism, blockchain, hacking, 3-d printing, augmented/virtual reality, oculus rift, ...

Cory Arcangel, Ed Atkins, Trisha Baga, Bernadette Corporation, Black Mirror, Simon Denny, DIS, Aleksandra Domanovic, Parker Ito, JODI.org, The Jogging, David Joselit, K-HOLE, John Kelsey, Daniel Keller/Aids 3-D, Oliver Laric, Mark Leckey, Metahaven, Satoshi Nakamoto, Katja Novitskova, Jon Rafman, Red Scare podcast, Bunny Rogers, Tabor Robak, Jacolby Satterwhite, Timur Si Qin, Reena Spaulings, Seth Price, Takeshi69, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Tiqqun, Amalia Ulman, Wikileaks, Jordan Wolfson, Young Girl Reading Group,


Some of these artists and topics I already know something about - for one it would be interesting to find out about things I know nothing about - on the other it would be interesting to look at things I have known in this new context

maybe it makes most sense to do it on virtual image spaces and digital aesthetics as it relates to my own VR work and would help me in my future process? + I could get a lot of examples and some insights

Also maybe talk about what I understand when I hear these terms or what could be the definition..?

What does it mean to be an artist in capitalist system?

Reena Spauldings and the Bernadette Cooperation

* interested in this because it relates to the collage 'billboard effect' style possible in Unity but her way is analog version
taking the internet aesthetics into real world space via sculpture

Overlap between fashion and art ( talk about: where is the line) - amorphous blob - collectivity - accreditation

Suggestions for Topic related to Post-Internet Art


anthropocene, circulationism, transhumanism, virality, alt- right, face tune, deep fakes, doxxing, wokeness, cancel culture, #metoo, NRx, OOO, furries/cosplay, health goths, gopnik style, vetements, normcore, eckhaus latta, virtual imagespaces, digital aesthetics, AI, uncanny valley, second life, pokemon go, vvork, contemporary art daily, new technologies and production processes, big data, content marketing, influencer culture, surveillance capitalism, blockchain, hacking, 3-d printing, augmented/virtual reality, oculus rift, ...

Cory Arcangel, Ed Atkins, Trisha Baga, Bernadette Corporation, Black Mirror, Simon Denny, DIS, Aleksandra Domanovic, Parker Ito, JODI.org, The Jogging, David Joselit, K-HOLE, John Kelsey, Daniel Keller/Aids 3-D, Oliver Laric, Mark Leckey, Metahaven, Satoshi Nakamoto, Katja Novitskova, Jon Rafman, Red Scare podcast, Bunny Rogers, Tabor Robak, Jacolby Satterwhite, Timur Si Qin, Reena Spaulings, Seth Price, Takeshi69, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Tiqqun, Amalia Ulman, Wikileaks, Jordan Wolfson, Young Girl Reading Group,


Some of these artists and topics I already know something about - for one it would be interesting to find out about things I know nothing about - on the other it would be interesting to look at things I have known in this new context

maybe it makes most sense to do it on virtual image spaces and digital aesthetics as it relates to my own VR work and would help me in my future process? + I could get a lot of examples and some insights

Also maybe talk about what I understand when I hear these terms or what could be the definition..?

source: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/49/60004/too-much-world-is-the-internet-dead/

It's a topic that is limited, specific but has a lot of meat and things to dive in on..

I like the idea of reading it and maybe visualising the story?
Edit a short video of her life..???

Being a collective to be able to function

blurring lines between fashion and art

unconventionality
vision
free creativity

anti-corporation

'pre-branding'
no clear identity
seems intentionally hard to understand what their about

authorship in collaboration

Performance
performers - former models - connection to fashion
people as artworks
the muse
the same group of performers
the artist as choreographer ( e.g. remote instructions via SMS) 
clothes that are worn express a certain subgenre- mentality
role of the message (political?) in performance

performance as it relates to fashion

fashion - art intersection
art - non art

not accepted by art scene?

uniquely German?

importance of music

evolving the performance for each exhibitions, site specfifc

Angst - opera in three parts
shown as exhibitions for institutions as well as a live piece that traveled and showed different parts of that opera starting as an overture , act 1, act 2 - max (Hamburger Bahnhof) , Act 3

music plays a central role

Faust, installation, it's like painting and a live piece
duration of the exhibition was 7 months - daily routine, small performance piece 4-6 people
and 4 times the full performance 4 hours was shown , other times you could see

built glass not only floor but also some walls so many things where performed behind glass
worked with core group of people - collaborative work executed
the audience became more and more part of the pice, which she didn't expect

"bending over fast" - heavy metal head-bang (*why doesn't she call it like it is?)
"emphasis on wresting as one of the movements" half embrace, half a fight about dominance
portraiture as an important and guiding subject
music partly played from phones partly on sound system
electronic music composed mixed with signing, screaming of the performers


catalogue piece #1
student at städelschule frankfurt : redlight boxing :organised a duel situation, rented out on Sundays - table dance location
punk band, co-dependant, one can't stop without the other - both entities pushing each other
didn't perceive it at art at the time

doesn't understand her work as performance but creating images with live moments
her language
live aspect is there, not to negate but she works on them as images, composed as images , to her it's rather a painting
in between things are so important . figures are alone or together and are in between the lines, are themselves, separation but also make a connection to that inner

abstraction as something that interests her in her work,

layers of images in wall works
layer of images in live works: composition of pictures , spatial layering, the architecture, people are figures, time also element of layering

faust had a lot of elements so started to get close: with images coming also from photoshoot beforehand , pantings put into same space
'faust' stand for the question of dignity and the question of power

group of people: artists, performers , dancers, choreographers - they became her stars
influence and admiration, core team is 5 people, met in Frankfurt through different people , studying times - her graduation piece was first they worked together on ; started by talking a lot

sound, documentation, performer
freedom from trust - ground structure
planned and open (also because audience comes in)
posted images/instagramed became the moment that the performers afterwards also had to deal with, the view of spectator becomes part of discussion
shared open structure

has to do with the photographic images, how she sees it today, how it's distributed
looks at photograph, and in 99% of cases you would put it away but that that image sticks and she draws from memory , draws in a scenery she would expect to see around this image, goes into detail but then it's also about leaving anotehr part of the image more vague, to leave space there e.g. hands in a certain way seen from photograph

foremost a painter
: most serious in this medium
closest to what she is doing
otehr pratcices take a lot of time and she struggles with not having enough time with it
tension between focused and abstract

main focus: to investigate when the boundary is blurry
relation to violence, wants to study it
relation to devotion in the sense of what they do it a lot , generosity towards their work that she admires
relentlessness

the group, fight, want to work them them more, love each other

likes missing relation in the composition

has/is at a gallery in NY , Buchholz
movement of animals how it relates to movement of people

unrealised projekt: painting a ceiling

Why was 'Faust' important?
because it created emotion? because it provocatively/didn't shy away from presenting and playing with german heritage?

this process and intention of image making that is central to the work is highly aesahetised and this is also what makes it 'fashion' - to compose and control the image in such a way, using live bodies.

performance pieces that test the limits of bodies in real time.
places audience and performer on equal footing

Faust featured barking doberman pinschers/dogs who guarded the imposing building behind anti-riot fences as aloof, androgynous performers climbed these fences to remain on top of these fences and other transparent partitions in a disinterested manner and animated the entire Nazi-era architecture.
"junge und wunderschön kaputte Akteure mit einer hypnotisierenden Apathie darboten."

Layering image elements through the space and using that space to create a atmosphere in front of the background of representing your country

Elisa Douglas is muse in true sense as she is Imhof's fiancee - also did a collaborative show together where both artists featured own work and works made together.

Portfolio for W - marks first joint fashion shoot >> again the link to fashion

Eliza also walks shows so there is a clear connection to the fashion industry
& Anne's interest in Vetements
+ the practice of NOT POSTING YOUR ARTWORK BUT OF POSTING COVERS OR SHOOTS FROM (FASHION) MAGAZINES
Douglas who modeles for Helut lang as a teenager introduce Imhof to the fashion world
Also especially to music, the idea of a 'Gesamtkunstwerk'
Douglas opened Balenciaga show once brand was under Demna Gvasalia (Founder of Vetements)
Imhof fascinated by how fashion is "so in the moment but at the same time all about taking from history" + the use of colour and from and "how it allows person wearing it to be transgressive" 

die Verweigerung von Handlung ist das was die einzelnen Bewegungnen so hervortreten lässt

The aesthetics of Dis.art public service announcement is amazing but does it really speak to the audience they are trying to reach ,because the 'fashion and art people don't vote'?

the information is so super fast slowing I criticise how informative it really is.
+ the bad lips-ync was very distracting - if you're going to put that much effort into a high production it feels a shame that the point isn't brought across as it could be; too fast + bad lip sync = message gets lost.
+ Had to even close my eyes during the fast spoken historical recap to be able to follow.

Source: https://dis.art/series/public-service-announcement/

Post-internet phenomenon: that the view of the viewer becomes a thing not only in the dissemination of the work on a broader scale but for the performers themselves.

I want to zoom in on how she constructs her images - how this relates to aesthetics
design presentation like her artworks

Shoes in shoes - Dis Magazine:http://dismagazine.com/distaste/new-style-options/13659/shoes-in-shoes/

I would have wanted DIS BAG lol - source: https://disown.dismagazine.com/collections/frontpage/products/disown-ikea-bag