Arts Culture and Media: Image, Cultural and Identity
My personal role within the context of this vast multifaceted world that is social media, is one of an quiet observer sifting and sorting through limitless information and images. To say the least I’m a spectator, a consumer, with the ocassonal reaction and political statement on my Instagram story. I try not to think of my identity being tied with my ambiguous persona on my social media, reason being is that I don’t share often. When I do share I share impersonally, and at arms length.
Yet when interacting with these social apps, it’s hard not to notice the people who use their platforms and followers as a tool for lucrative profits, branding and commodifying their Internet personalities making their mundane lives available for mass consumption. It’s scary for me to imagine myself doing the same thing. To give myself to strangers and allow them to appropriate my images, my life and my surface level identity.
The invasive quality is something I ponder as an artist creating within the context of my own identity exploration. With that being said, I am indeed creating art for the purpose of its inevitable consumption by whom ever decides to lay their eyes on my work (or purchase it). Even while my themes and processes are deeply reflective of my personal realities, I’ve come to realize that my art doesn’t belong to just me after Ive finished and released them into the world. My art is an object and a product, while simultaneously reflecting fragments of my soul. Yet so much of how we know art today is sharing it in galleries, museums and traditional institutions and most recently Instagram.
So I’m weary and cautious about the sharing aspect of social media, while also understanding the new increasing demand for this media presence.
Yet to dismiss the impact social media has had on my daily life is one of those things you can’t ignore. I think it’s everyone’s guilty pleasure whether your uploading content or scrolling throughout it. I get my gossip and news from instagram. I’ve also had access to like minded people in the same feild as me. There are people that I’ve been ‘following’ for years while never even making contact with them. I get inspiration from other artists on Instagra; which I understand is quite the contradiction since I’m not so forthcoming with my own art work on my social media. Yet with all that being said, it’s difficult to capture how much of a hold social media has really had over my psyche. I mean, sometimes I find myself opening apps fro no reason, and at this point, in the mist of the fog that is the now, it hard to see the projected future of what all this could become and when I could possibly fit in all of it. In terms of how it’s changed industries such as the art world in this article below.
https://www.artworkarchive.com/blog/how-social-media-is-changing-our-art-experience
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| Intimate post by @morenaespiritual (2018) |
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