Gabby Bush

Australia (residence), New Zealand (citizenship) °1993
research interests: AI, Ethics, digital art, algorithms
affiliation: Centre for AI and Digital Ethics
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Gabby Bush is the Centre and Programs Manager at the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne. She has pursued research in technology and Art, AI in Government, and has written widely on bias in algorithms and the social impact of Automated Decision-Making. Gabby has a bachelor's and Honours in Politics and Religious Studies and a Masters in International Development. Previously, Gabby worked for the United Nations Development Program in Samoa and focused on projects relating to eGovernance and Digitization in the Pacific Islands. 

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  • Your Digital Graveyard: Sound, Toilets and Participatory Post-Internet Practice in Scrape Elegy (2024) author(s): Gabby Bush, Monica Lim published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    Scrape Elegy is a participatory multimedia art installation designed as a critical exploration of our presence on and engagement with social media. The work uses sound, a physical installation in the form of a pink public toilet, and participatory practice through visitors’ Instagram accounts. It joins the postmodern art procession of toilet-based installations and plays on the aesthetics of the banal (Maffesoli 1999) as a critique of society, much like such works as Maurizio Cattelan’s America (2016) and Gelitin’s Locus Focus (2004). It calls attention to the ethical issues surrounding data scraping technology by using the very same technology to read visitors’ Instagram captions from their accounts back to themselves. Sound becomes the medium for self-representation, subverting the text- and photo-based platform of Instagram. The work is personal and user-specific, using parasitic platform practices to create a critique of modern internet capitalism and tech oligarchies (Sætra et al. 2021). Scrape Elegy is a comedic mourning poem, a monologue, and a private show for the individual in a commercialized, globalized, corporate, pink Instagram world. Download Accessible PDF
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