generative multimedia installation
LIVING LAB 9 - PICCOLA VIDEO GALLERIA - VIDEO EXCERPT
The audio-soundscape of the Internet and the community modulate simultaneously. In this video sound installation, the intent is to juxtapose the bulimic and accelerationist trend of today's society with the audiovisual entertainment experience offered by a specific social network. A selection of videos from the social platform Tik Tok animates three structures juxtaposed together in the manner of altarpieces. The intent is to evoke the volatility of our new icons; projected holograms lasting only a few seconds. A series of insignificant and attractive visions.
The installation proposes a flow of content independently concatenated by the software. This builds paths based on the cataloging and selection of videos made by the artist. The rudimentary recomendation algorithm of !CONA also manages a series of audio video effects that follow an internal score that describes a formal arc of audio and video effects that emulate the typical grain of the Internet: buffering, audio and video compression, and playback errors. The installation aims to recreate, through the use of banners composed like an altarpiece, a three-dimensional version of the social network's virtual space. The number three (banners, screens, speakers) shares a technical-mystical sense related to signal triangulation and clearly to the Catholic religion, which sees in the trinity the divine completeness. In addition, the religious overlay also lends the meaning of “icon” to the proposed moving image, a term that is also ambiguous in that it is used to describe influencers who serve as examples within the social platforms under consideration (tik tok).
The overstimulating synchrony that characterizes the audiovisual experience of this social network format is exasperated in the search for a grotesque digital post. Video material is collected through main hashtags. The selections made so far are: #mukbang #foodporn #asmrfood and #liminalspace #backrooms #weirdcore