Door: Lauren Lee McCarthy.
“What is the relationship between attention and surveillance? There are sites you can go to to buy online followers, $10 can get you 1000 followers. We have this intense desire to be seen, to feel connected. But is that desire really fulfilled by watching your follower count tick upward? Could a real life follower provide something more meaningful or satisfying?
With the advent of ubiquitous camera placement, NSA monitoring, Google tracking, and any number of other practices, there is little doubt we live in a surveillance state. And yet through the Internet we continue to engage with faceless followers to assuage an intense desire to be seen. How do we reconcile these competing concepts? Follower flips the interface of app and user to renegotiate these relationships and find optimism in what cultural pundits have deemed a doomsday scenario.”
Aldus McCarthy.
