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#me

One year long every day a new video with animatronics and postings tagged with #me.

identity construction through  social media

#me mimicks the conditions of social media. This work does not answer the multiplicity of identities, but takes up everything in its infinite soliloquy. Animatronics recite content from social network platforms, hinting at the role of Twitter, Facebook, Google & Co. in identity construction. Only postings tagged with #me have been used. #me is a taphole in social media.

Youtube playlist #me

The method used in #me – an algorithm has been placed into position to search for “me” in social networks – plays with a recurrent theme in Jeron’s work, Serendipity.

The algorithm generates identity. Like a synthesizer, #me creates a composition out of what is and what could be. “I am another”, credo and tactic of the avant-garde lyrics of modernity, immersed suddenly from the surface of the comments on Twitter and Facebook, not as a poetic formulation, but in the form of the dissociated subject that emerges out of the nothingness. The mirror stage of the media society is reached.

 

Ein Jahr lang jeden Tag ein neues Video mit Animatroniks und Postings mit dem Hashtag #ich.

Indentitätskonstruktion durch soziale Medien

#ich ahmt die Bedingungen der sozialen Medien nach. Die Arbeit gibt auf die Vervielfältigung von Identitäten keine Antwort, sondern nimmt alles in ihr unendliches Selbstgespräch auf. Animatronics sprechen Inhalte aus sozialen Netzwerken. Sie behaupten, dass durch  Twitter, Facebook, Google & Co. Identitäten konstruiert werden. Nur Postings mit dem Hashtag #ich werden verwendet. #ich ist eine Kernbohrung in soziale Medien.

Das in #ich angewendete Verfahren – ein Algorithmus wird in sozialen Netzwerken auf das Ich angesetzt – spielt dabei mit einem immer wiederkehrenden Motiv in Jerons Arbeiten, Serendipität.

Der Algorithmus generiert Identität. Wie ein Synthesizer erzeugt #ich eine Komposition aus dem, was ist und geht zugleich darüber hinaus. Ich ist ein Anderer, Credo und Taktik der avantgardistischen Lyrik der Moderne, taucht plötzlich aus der Oberfläche der Kommentare auf Twitter und Facebook wieder auf, doch nun nicht mehr als poetische Formulierung, sondern in der Form des dissoziierten Subjekts, das aus dem Nichts in Erscheinung tritt. Das Spiegelstadium der medialen Gesellschaft ist erreicht.

 

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  1. I like Karl Heinz Jeron’s talking robots because they twitch and squeak, and sometimes trip over each other, which always gets laughs for some reason. Also they don’t blabber pointlessly. In fact, they make more sense than many humans I’ve run into.

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