The ‘Food for Thought’ installation is proud to be a part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival in the Critical Mass collective. From the 12th of September to 22nd September you can find the pods hanging in the magic outdoor space of the Testing Grounds Gallery. Bring the kids or that random friend who likes to embarrass you by poking and prodding art. We’re keen to have you all engage with the installation. Details are below. You can also check out this video tour of the Food for Thought installation as it was in Rainbow Serpent Festival earlier this year.
Critical Mass @ Testing Grounds
1 City rd South Bank, Melbourne
Opening night Wednesday 12th Sep 6-9pm
Exhibition 12-22nd September
A crowding of crucial ideas, bringing together visual art installations, new media, conversations and projection. It is a space for an audacious community to gather and experience ambitious, experimental and critical art. Explore ideas about feminism, queer politics, technology, environment and mental health. Add your own crucial idea to the exhibition by painting a placard, exhibited around the Testing Grounds site.
I am a digital sociologist who is deeply curious about how innovations in digital networked technologies become adopted and socially adapted. Our lives have been irrevocably impacted by the advent of the internet. This includes the ways we communicate, how we learn and find information alongside how we create and exchange things that have value to us.
Having watched the spread and adoption of the internet and studied its social impacts, I know that our relationship with innovations in digital networked technologies creates both intended and unintended consequences. Our early and unprocessed reactions are more visible in the real time pulse of social media. Our lives are archived and our online activities create digital traces that reveal more about us and challenge our understandings of privacy and consent. Without a clear intention or direction, we are engineering our future through our mundane daily practices and I think it is important for us to stop and consider what we want our digital future to be.
As a practicing sociologist, my research interests are in digital frontiers, community studies and research methods. This is covered in my recent book, ‘Research Methods and Global Online Communities: a case study’ which combines these areas and forms the basis of my study of emerging communities forming through online spaces and cryptography.
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