[-empyre-] Week 2 of the April 2018 discussion: New Media Documentary Practice

[Rachel Johnson]

Hello !
New media artists by definition are critical of the way networks function
so the past several months should come as no great surprise, however as
FOSTA/SESTA has literally shut down the accounts of many friends and put
their livelihoods at risk and with the facebook analytica trials being
fodder for jokes and memes on the commercial radio awareness of the cost of
online activity is at an all time high, even for those who are not
necessarily subversive in their intent.
I am wondering how new media artists will respond to the breakdown of an
internet popularly visualized as freely flowing into a space that is
undoubtedly mined heavily by corporations and policing bodies ? It seems
that interactions with the networked becoming more expensive in terms of
our ability to protect aspects of our existence- our bodies, our dreams,
our statistics, our identities, and our relationships to ourselves and our
loved ones- from those who could access it for gain at a level that our
subconscious cannot compartmentalize.

Could this be a prompt for introducing how your practice relates to a
network?

Re: the structural necessity that code does access some part of users ....
the heaviness of "CODE" as such increasing as the reliability of networks
decreasing.... NOTE- my context is the USA.

Apologies
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