Screenshots of project 1(Video)
https://youtu.be/_6juNI7LBOk
This video involved two kinds of social media memories. The first part of the video is people’s attitude towards Internet news.The Internet, algorithmic search engines, databases, and cloud storage have made accessing information as easy as drinking water. Scientists came up with the concept of transactive memory. Human beings, as social animals, make the best use of their strong social skills to scatter and copy the information they need to remember to others. In such a memory network, everyone’s memory is interdependent, and their ability to process information is far more than an individual’s ability to process information.The Internet is a vast universe of information, expanding every day, every second. However, the Internet is sometimes more forgetful than we think—Some things appear repeatedly, but some things are like a needle into the ocean, trying to get out of the sea. There are only one or two similar public events on the Internet that will be remembered.When we see more of the dark side of the world than we did before the Internet, we marvel, rage, condemn, sympathize, encourage, support, but may be immediately drawn to happier visuals. In the first part of my video, I use two cases that exposed by social media, and caused a heated discussion for few days. these girls and discussion were quickly forgotten. Human memory and instinct prefer to see cute and beautiful news, which is the brain’s protection for us. The pork in the opening video was shot by myself, because i wanted to symbolically express that the murder killed because their memory told them that they can materialize the women.
The second part is about the control of Internet memory and public memory by different interest groups and AI. The emergence of the Internet has greatly expanded the capacity of information preservation and dissemination, and also expanded the scale of interactive groups. The Internet has created a new way of communication and life for us. We are developing human civilization on the Internet.
The Internet’s construction of collective memory is not only decentralized and fragmented, but search engine technology is not completely neutral and objective to serve the cognitive progress of human beings. According to Steve Bellovin（https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/yes-algorithms-can-be-biased-heres-why/）, AI will produce biased results based on the probability of big data, such as the ads and video we see on websites.
Second, different interest groups and governments are also biased in their network management. Because of the Internet’s technological convenience and potential for media control, the same thing can be interpreted differently on the Internet. At a time when the international political situation and economic policies are increasingly severe, the Internet and artificial intelligence have become the rulers’ new weapons to guide the collective memory. In my video, the Chinese Internet and the western Internet propagated and reported the Hong Kong event from two completely different perspectives, resulting in completely different attitudes of the two social groups
References:
1. Eye Machine Serios. Harun Farocki. https://www.harunfarocki.de/installations/2000s/2000/eye-machine.html
“The work centers on the images of the Gulf War which caused worldwide sensation in 1991.Artist Harun Farocki explores the question of how military image technologies find their way into civilian life.”
2. Article: ” Yes, “algorithms” can be biased. Here’s why. ” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/01/yes-algorithms-can-be-biased-heres-why/
