20/01/2020

FROM ADORABLE DEER EYES TO FAKE NUDES

The unstoppable rise of the smartphone has given birth to a generation of DIY filmmakers & editors, AKA young people who have taken advantage of the tools in their pockets to unleash their creativity. But are they just pawns of the platforms, data-mined for surveillance & profit?

This talk will explore the fun, creative, anarchic use of digital media & new technologies as well the dilemmas and issues they cause and what is coming in the near future.

Balletdanserinden (August Blom, DK, 1911)

https://www.tiktok.com/@notlikethecar/video/6684341486470827270

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvFdT3cCKtY

https://www.mercatornet.com/mobile/view/nigerian-teens-create-sci-fi-movies-with-a-broken-smartphone/22786

https://twitter.com/x_feroza/status/1198978379678130176

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/teen-tiktok-tutorial-condemning-china-viral-191127082757584.html

https://twitter.com/nadiajaferey/status/1187752657991151619

https://www.tiktok.com/@gill.no.chill/video/6729301283473198342?langCountry=en

https://twitter.com/blakersdozen/status/1197011286682292224

https://www.tiktok.com/tag/life360?langCountry=en

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sex-education-is-so-bad-these-teens-are-doing-it-on-tiktok

Platforms change the game

https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2019/12/23/790265246/how-clairo-turned-a-viral-bedroom-video-into-a-successful-music-career

https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8524319/lil-nas-x-old-town-road-tiktok-beginning

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/03/do-something-weird-that-works-on-tiktok-how-to-write-a-pop-smash-in-2020

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/08/musical-notes-justin-bieber-tiktok-friendly-yummy-too-eager-to-go-viral

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51240210

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51260559

https://twitter.com/wbm312/status/1211526610672685056?s=19

Feeling disturbingly attracted to ZAO's deepfake AI facial replacement "creations."
Privacy side of my brain: this is outrageous, wrong and a gross way of collecting biometrics data.
Reptilian side of my brain: it hot.

— Eva Blum-Dumontet 🦝 (@Arcadian_O) September 2, 2019