Affect Me: Social Media Images in Art

Affect Me: Social Media Images in Art presents works from nine international artistic positions that refer to the new phenomena of social media imagery and select particular pictorial material that draws its energy from the context of global political conflicts and civil-social protest on the net. Their work reflects the usage and the semantics of these images as well as considering their aesthetic qualities. Sometimes, they allow us to delve deep into the places and events of our world in upheaval. Sometimes, the artists take a more distanced view. They elucidate the mobilising power of the images and demonstrate how these images create facts and thereby operate along the porous border between reality and fiction.

Included in this exhibition was Forensic Architecture’s Air Strike Atimah project and the corresponding work from our Bomb Cloud Atlas series.

This exhibition is a cooperation of KAI 10 | Arthena  Foundation, Düsseldorf and the Collaborative Research Center 1171 Affective Societies at Freie Universität Berlin.

Installation views: Affect Me: Social Media Images in Art – KAI 10 | Arthena Foundation 2017 – Photo © Alexandra Höner