Thesis Summary

The idea behind my dissertation proposal is to create an object that holds a, Shock Art’ aspect but with a technology edge. I want my Piece to show the contribution of social media and surveilance with art. My Piece will be an installation piece, a computer animated film or sculpture piece that incorporates, the aesthetics, mentioned before of the privacy and surveillance in internet social Media and how I can incorporate this into an Art installation Piece, my end result will be a narrative reality or current film, interactive piece depicting our contemporary culture lifestyle around the effects of social media privacy on the web.

The advances in technology has been providing artists with new ways to express themselves for a very long time. More and more artists are reviving their Art through the uses of technology be it a piece that moves in response to human interaction or a piece that is created using the visual use alone, of technology. We live in a cyborg society. Technology has infiltrated the most fundamental aspects of our lives: social organization, the body, even our self-concepts. This blog chronicles our new, augmented reality.

We are in an age of digital distraction. There is an almost constant feel isolation to the point of panic without our mobile or internet access. It’s a feeling of dependence constantly on these search engines wanting to know information, every second, of everyday. And it is pretty much all of us. When we’re not online, most of us spend roughly four months of each year, engaged in the stressful work of trying to get online.

Big Brother is something that has always fascinated and terrified me,The idea of being watched. We are all being watched this is the world we live in. Drones have become an entire subgenre of surveillance. The Internet permeates through every aspect of our corporate government and personal lives. Ninety percent of the world’s data — your information and mine — was created in the last two years alone. More and more people have access to the internet via mobile phones, tablets, labtops, smart tvs and so on.