MY SONIC YOUTH – The Project Room

 

 

 

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On the 3rd of June 1968, Valerie Solanis shot Andy Warhol, leaving him physically scarred and the open doors policy of the factory absolutely closed.

“People said to lock the door and have an open house no more, They said the Factory must change and slowly slip away, But if I have to live in fear, where will I get my ideas, With all those crazy people gone, will I slowly slip away” – Lou Reed & John Cale

The world was no longer seen as safe for young people and with this new parental anxiety came seclusion. Seclusion happened in tandem with the rise of technology and consequently online forums became sanctuary for a sub-culture of young people. Later there came an alteration in private and public spaces, and then the virtual communities were no longer primarily made up of young people, but now an older generation of online users began to infiltrate online spaces.

“In the tangled web of the anti-social Internet we are all responsible for ‘brand me’… All our friends are beautiful, all their lives are perfect and if we don’t project the same we are worthless. Ironically with this ability to self-direct a fluid and fluctuating image comes a catastrophic resignation of true self-control. The more loved the distorted public persona becomes the more lonely and empty our private reality becomes. In the process of losing our self, we sacrificed our physical connections, exchanging them for a manipulated distorted digital link to other fictions.”

Projecting a manicured self-image in response to the change in public viewing, all things are seen and experienced through various forms of social media, turning these images and words into carefully constructed non-realities. However, despite all of this over-connectedness and unclear cultural lines, teenagers have once again developed a system for subversion. Through social media, music, and technology, teens have created a new kind of unspoken dialect.

Detail taken from the Stereogram series