Your Digital Graveyard: Sound, Toilets and Participatory Post-Internet Practice in Scrape Elegy

Monica Lim

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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

type	research exposition
keywords	digital ethics, social media, artistic research, participtory installation, post-internet, scraping
date	15/07/2024
published	15/07/2024
last modified	15/07/2024
status	published
affiliation	Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, University of Melbourne
copyright	Gabby Bush and Monica Lim
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1742136/2819444
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1742136
published in	Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	32. 32

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