After the previous weeks introduction to the brief, a lot of people’s first angle of emphasis was on “social media”. And while this is undoubtably a big part of our “cybernetic selfs”, each well known social media program displays different characteristics of even the same person- so Nick suggested how we are all social network mediums- we are what makes it what it is. That also “cyber” selfs expand much much further than what is just displayed on our profile walls. “Social media” itself is too superficial to solely focus on, that it is just an expansion of ourselves… focus instead should be on the differences it provokes e.g in peoples mindsets.
Networks have always existed even before internet connections, as a network includes all of us. We have work networks and friend networks in reality. Just as means of communication have always existed through these networks.
Brian Eno created a term to mean this “working together’ we all have…. this was “Scienius”. To illustrate this we can say that a genius is one single person, however with communication so free and loose we can’t say that one person is responsible for one thing, we are open to experiences and influences around us which incorporate other people…. therefore this is scienius (more than just one genius).
Through;
reflection
interaction
conversation
actions
and reactions
we EDIT ourselves through the feedback we receive (conversation, body language). Which can be directly linked to cybernetics- as this is the art of steering to a goal and by taking action to achieve this goal through self correction, only achievable through feedback.
These artists we were advised to look at more thoroughly for examples.
Mary Ponomareva
Mary is a graphic designer from the Netherlands, who uses her ever changing visual environment and technical world to create designs for a wide array of media formats. She actively explore and experiments with the extreme boundaries of visual communication, to create curious but culturally enriched outputs.
Douglas Coupland
Douglas Coupland is an visual artist who is frequent contributor to Vice magazine alongside other publication platforms. The pieces of work above are form a collection called "The Living Internet". He describes this as "The living internet is a kinetic room-sized sculptural tableau visualising what the internet and online searching actually look like".- Coupland 2015.
Aisha Madu
Aisha Madu's work is unusually and doesn't follow the conventions of design. It's something that could be recognised as formalist avant grade/ under the sofa design. Its offensive the eyes and doesn't really make sense, yet is still visually intriguing. However i am unsure how this example links to the brief of cybernetic self. The only connection could be to do with body disfiguration. Maybe that the internet can be the catalyst to people wanting to change their appearance
