THE CREATIVE CODING START

FURTHERFIELD GALLERY

Saturday 16th September - Sunday 12th November 2017

This chair is made in a kind of contradiction. Meaning that the purpose of it and its materials are contradicting. The char is made out of a net which was used for prevention of suicide in Japan in the 2009s. However in the gallery its whole purpose of use is to sit and relax. In one scenario people jump to their death and in the other they sit down and enjoy little moments of life.

The artist chose photos from twitter and created a sort of a "slot machine". There are so many posts we go through on a daily basis on social media, but do we remember or use any of this information (maybe even subconsciously)? The artist is essentially asking us to prove the benefits of the social media through showing us the constant flow of continuously repeating information.

Furthermore she is showing the direct connection between the addiction of gambling and the addiction of social media and technology in general.

Dr Skinners pigeon experiment incorporated into the social media addiction (1950s)
The experiment consisted of having pigeons which get food at a constant hour and others which which have some missed intervals of feeding. The ones that had missed intervals eventually started to peck at the button compulsively. This experiment can shows that pigeons can be persuaded to perform an activity more often, simply by giving a variable reward instead of promising a fixed reward. And infant exactly the same words on humans.

The idea of this final project is that you sit infant of the computer and just search the web for a while. There's a camera at the front of the computer which detects your eye movement. Following the data collected from your eye movement, a projector shows a sort of map on the ceiling which develops as you continue to browse the web. It shows movement and direction of your eyes and the photo at the bottom right shows how intense and varied this action is.

These images at the top are a sort of "timer" on Donald Trumps' life in the change of every 15 seconds, registering the number of "comments", "likes" and "shares" he gets on social media.

This is one of the smaller projects the artist has done, but I believe it is vital in seeing how fast the world evolves in the internet world. These figures are changing in the matter of seconds and in real life time a person can just about open the front door, or step their foot outside in the matter of seconds. I believe this piece is about realising the speed of the social media industry and the cyber space in general.

Artist - Katriona Beales

credits for any material which is not mineto: Katriona Beales, Fiona MacDolnald & official website listed below.

collaborating with:

Fiona MacDonald