I was thinking about our increasingly dominated, controlled, pimped, and monopolized internet social media lately. I heard from one of Rollo Tomassi’s shows that there’s some kind of ethics manager heading an ethics committee for the internet that has been established because of how out of control social media have gotten. I didn’t put the words out of control in that last sentence in parentheses because I think the addictive baseline that social media exist for is out of control. But I don’t believe our out of control government that’s at the end of its spend-forever-and-pay-nothing-back addiction can or should do anything about it. It’s up to us to control ourselves. But I don’t even believe we can control ourselves. I believe our unconscious minds, instincts, motivations, and habits are vastly more powerful than our conscious decision making minds are.
I note this former Facebook executive who spoke out about how destructive Facebook and social media are to human relationships.
This piece has text integrated in it. I was thinking of Guillaume Apollinaire when I wrote it and made the composition with the text into what you see here. I decided to make a whimsical, poetic, abstract art image based on what I’ve been watching for a long time with social media controls. Most of us know that social media controllers have made algorithms to weed out and promote those who play the game correctly in their idea of natural selection in a digital age social media context. I found an article that discusses “how to beat” Instagram’s algorithms. Why does one have to beat the algorithms? To get you to engage and addict yourself to Instagram more?
The image is just an abstract, playful mockery of what we live in today as netizens, colonized and controlled by social media oligarchs who camcord us without our consent and trade this info among themselves like human trading professions of the past. It’s a selection from a previous image I posted here I titled Chalked Up Tchotchke.
Medium: Ltd. edition print (25)
Dimensions: 33 x 19 inches (not framed)
Framed and with glass, this piece is: $450.00
Unmatted print is: $95.00
Art of eVan 