{"id":27204,"date":"2018-11-29T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=27204"},"modified":"2018-11-29T09:00:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T09:00:37","slug":"all-i-know-is-whats-on-the-internet-at-photographers-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/all-i-know-is-whats-on-the-internet-at-photographers-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Is everything you know from the internet?"},"content":{"rendered":"

All I Know is What\u2019s on the Internet<\/em> exhibition at Photographers\u2019 Gallery<\/a> will be on until February 24th.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The photography display\u2019s title is a Donald Trump\u2019s quote from 2016, during the presidential campaign. The body of work, made by a number of visual artists, deals with the always increasing presence of the internet in ordinary peoples\u2019 daily life, investigating the role of photography in this relatively new and ever-changing environment.
\nAs opposed to a society in which photography used to have a central role in investigating the world and its people in a relatively straightforward way, \u201cin a social media age, the challenge of making sense of a single photograph is being overwhelmed by the problem of processing millions of images at speed\u201d.<\/p>\n

The show also brings up issues as the \u201clike economy\u201d, IA, authenticity and the increasing use of machines, as well as \u201cthe human labour technical infrastructures required to sustain the web\u2019s 24\/7 content feed\u201d.
\n\u201cWhile the internet has become a source of knowledge about the world,\u201d it\u2019s written on the wall at the entrance, \u201cit also increasingly knows about its users: their friendships, locations, habits and desires\u201d.
\nIn a photographers\u2019 gallery large room on the second floor, the human meets technology. Machines make up users\u2019 behaviour, while the viewer gets the chance to think about the seemingly invisible people who work to keep the internet up and running: the humans feeding the machines.<\/p>\n

Here are a few examples of the artwork on show:<\/p>\n

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\u2022 World Brain<\/strong><\/em> by Steph\u00e1ne Degoutin and Gwenola Wagon<\/p>\n

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\nA 1 hr 12 mins lasting video, divided into two parts.
\nThe first part, lasting 21 minutes, investigates the \u201carchitecture of data centres\u201d, while the second shows an experiment done by some researchers. They tried to survive in a forest just by means of using Wikipedia, \u201cwith the ultimate aim of securing the survival of humankind\u201d.
\nThe video is available to watch online at tpg.org.uk\/worldbrain<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2022 Nothing Personal<\/strong><\/em> by Mari Bastashevski<\/p>\n