Farewell Photography - No Image Is an Island
Port25 - Raum für Gegenwartskunst Mannheim and Bookstore Thalia at Paradeplatz, City Centre Mannheim, GermanyCurator: Fabian Knierim et al.
Artists: Natalie Bookchin, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Andreas Horlitz & Reinhard Matz, Stefan Karrer, Marc Lee, Eva & Franco Mattes, Joachim Schmid, D. H. Saur, Juergen Teller, Amalia Ulman, Andrew Norman Wilson
Port25, Mannheim
Paradeplatz, Mannheim
Political Campaigns – Battle of Opinion on Social Media
Interactive Net-Based TV Show
During the international election campaigns of the past few months supporters of opposing parties fought fierce image battles on social media.
Facebook, Instagram, Youtube and other services have become the digital marketplace for the political debate. The online work Bundestagswahl by Swiss media artist Marc Lee (*1969, Eglisau) displays the momentum of an election campaign fuelled by social media as exaggerated theatre. For the Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Lee has programmed a so-called bot - a software that filters the latest Twitter, Instagram and Youtube messages according to political parties and the primary candidates for the German federal election. The bot interweaves the messages into a frenzied live TV show in which images, tweets and videos flicker over the screen in real time and icons in the colours of the combatants display their current online market value.
A look beyond the borders of your own echochambers and filter bubbles, presented from 9 September as an installation in the exhibition No Image Is an Island at Port25 – Raum für Gegenwartskunst, Mannheim, and at the Thalia bookstore at Paradeplatz in Mannheim’s city centre.
Exhibited Artwork
Bundestagswahl – Meinungskampf in den Sozialen Medien
Interactive Net-Based TV ShowIn recent months in election campaigns all over the world, the supporters of opposing parties have engaged in fiercely waged wars of images on social media. Germany’s elections have also long since ceased to be won on the street or in the traditional media—Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and other services have become the digital market place for political disputation. For Bundestagswahl, which more …
Port25, Mannheim
Port25, Mannheim
Port25, Mannheim
Political Campaigns - Battle of Opinion on Social Media
Interactive Net-Based TV ShowIn recent months in Political Campaigns all over the world, the supporters of opposing parties have engaged in fiercely waged wars of images on social media. Elections have also long since ceased to be won on the street or in the traditional media— social networks have become the digital marketplace for political disputation. A new version of Marc Lee’s TV Bot (2004), filters the latest Twitter more …
dokKa, Karlsruhe
Port25, Mannheim
Fotomuseum, Winterthur