Everything Is Going To Be Ok
Description
Artist Statement
Millions of people are sharing their intimate secrets on social media. Every day, over 300 people across the globe will tweet 'don't leave me' to their significant others or try to reassure anxious loved ones by tweeting the words 'everything is going to be OK . Part of the 'Underbelly Arts Festival' on Sydney's Cockatoo Island in August 2013, Everything Is Going To Be OK addresses this unprecedented intrusion of private thoughts into the public sphere, and how the smallest details of our emotional lives are being appropriated and aggregated by remorseless, corporate-controlled data streams that come to mirror our hopes, fears and personalities. The work features projections of short form monologues and dialogues, constructed in real-time out of data from Twitter.
Source of Artist Statement
Millions of people are sharing their intimate secrets on social media. Every day, over 300 people across the globe will tweet 'don't leave me' to their significant others or try to reassure anxious loved ones by tweeting the words 'everything is going to be OK . Part of the 'Underbelly Arts Festival' on Sydney's Cockatoo Island in August 2013, Everything Is Going To Be OK addresses this unprecedented intrusion of private thoughts into the public sphere, and how the smallest details of our emotional lives are being appropriated and aggregated by remorseless, corporate-controlled data streams that come to mirror our hopes, fears and personalities. The work features projections of short form monologues and dialogues, constructed in real-time out of data from Twitter.
Source of Artist Statement
Creator
Rodley, Chris
Burrell, Andrew
Date
2013
Rights
Copyright Chris Rodley and Andrew Burrell. The copyright of images posted on the ADELTA Website belongs to third parties and is included on this website by permission from copyright holders. Apart from any use permitted by the Copyright Act 1968 (including fair dealing) the images may not be downloaded, adapted, remixed, printed, emailed, stored in a cache or otherwise reproduced without the written permission from the copyright holder.
Genre
Networked new media installation
Platform
Twitter/Coding algorithim
Citation
Rodley, Chris and Burrell, Andrew, “Everything Is Going To Be Ok,” ADELTA, accessed December 26, 2024, https://adelta.westernsydney.edu.au/items/show/176.