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Your Digital Graveyard: Sound, Toilets and Participatory Post-Internet Practice in Scrape Elegy (2024)

Gabby Bush, Monica Lim
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Scrape Elegy is a participatory multimedia art installation designed as a critical exploration of our presence on and engagement with social media. The work uses sound, a physical installation in the form of a pink public toilet, and participatory practice through visitors’ Instagram accounts. It joins the postmodern art procession of toilet-based installations and plays on the aesthetics of the banal (Maffesoli 1999) as a critique of society, much like such works as Maurizio Cattelan’s America (2016) and Gelitin’s Locus Focus (2004). It calls attention to the ethical issues surrounding data scraping technology by using the very same technology to read visitors’ Instagram captions from their accounts back to themselves. Sound becomes the medium for self-representation, subverting the text- and photo-based platform of Instagram. The work is personal and user-specific, using parasitic platform practices to create a critique of modern internet capitalism and tech oligarchies (Sætra et al. 2021). Scrape Elegy is a comedic mourning poem, a monologue, and a private show for the individual in a commercialized, globalized, corporate, pink Instagram world. Download Accessible PDF
typeresearch exposition
keywordsdigital ethics, social media, artistic research, participtory installation, post-internet, scraping
date15/07/2024
published15/07/2024
last modified15/07/2024
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationCentre for AI and Digital Ethics, University of Melbourne
copyrightGabby Bush and Monica Lim
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1742136/2819444
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1742136
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue32. 32


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1743392 Toilet1 Monica Lim All rights reserved
1743403 PinkSquare Monica Lim All rights reserved
1743452 Tile1 Monica Lim All rights reserved
1743454 Tile2 Monica Lim All rights reserved
1743456 Tile3 Monica Lim All rights reserved
1743462 Tile4 Monica Lim All rights reserved
1743464 Tile5 Monica Lim All rights reserved
1743466 Tile6 Monica Lim All rights reserved
1743472 Tile7 Monica Lim All rights reserved
1743475 Tile8 Monica Lim All rights reserved
1743477 Tile9 Monica Lim All rights reserved
1743506 AlanWeedon_SWARM_SGM_100822_HIRES-6564 Alan Weedon All rights reserved
1743729 AlanWeedon_SWARM_SGM_100822_HIRES-7292 Alan Weedon All rights reserved
1743747 AlanWeedon_SWARM_SGM_100822_HIRES-7322 Alan Weedon All rights reserved
1743796 Screen Shot 2022-09-26 at 7.59.16 pm Misha Mikho All rights reserved
1743806 AlanWeedon_SWARM_SGM_100822_HIRES-6574 Alan Weedon All rights reserved
1743814 Social Media Post by @gabbybushyyy Gabby Bush All rights reserved
1743832 SocialMediaBaby Misha Mikho CC BY-NC-ND
1743845 AlanWeedon_SWARM_SGM_100822_HIRES-6547 Alan Weedon All rights reserved
1743925 ScrapeDummy Monica Lim All rights reserved
1744484 Screen Shot 2022-09-26 at 8.17.07 pm Monica Lim All rights reserved
1744490 Screen Shot 2022-09-26 at 8.19.07 pm Monica Lim All rights reserved
1744590 Scrape Elegy Design Birds Eye Lauren Steller All rights reserved
1744592 Scrape Elegy Front Design Lauren Steller All rights reserved
1744613 Screen Shot Neural Voice Monica Lim All rights reserved
1744637 Pink Elegy Instagram Instagram All rights reserved
1744652 Giggle Monica Lim All rights reserved
1744659 Public Service Announcement Monica Lim All rights reserved
1744681 Ummm Monica Lim All rights reserved
1744698 Likes Monica Lim All rights reserved
1744708 DoNotStand Monica Lim All rights reserved
1744725 Coffin Monica Lim All rights reserved
1744748 Angel Monica Lim All rights reserved
1744777 Wurlitzer Monica Lim All rights reserved
1748143 Screen Shot 2022-09-29 at 10.43.08 pm Gabby Bush All rights reserved
1748151 Install Process Gabby Bush All rights reserved
1748996 ScrapeVideo2 Gabby Bush All rights reserved
1749010 Stages Gabby Bush and Monica Lim All rights reserved
1749019 TwoHearts Monica Lim All rights reserved
1749021 StringSlide Monica Lim All rights reserved
1749028 PipeOrgan Monica Lim All rights reserved
1749038 Sliding Wurlitzer Monica Lim All rights reserved
2819507 scrape_elegy_home Gabby Bush and Monica Lim CC BY-NC-ND
2830368 mourning-poem Bush & Lim CC BY-NC-ND

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