My latest project dives into Johnathan Haidt’s opening chapters explaining the fundamental differences of ‘Real’ relational experiences that get replaced for ‘Virtual.’
The past couple decades have blurred the lines between “Real & Virtual,” to unlearn or reverse is unimaginable but necessary. The old man here shaking a fist is too easy to summon.
Social Media for an artist is like a massively-online, grade school session of Show and Tell. What skewed the intent to share was Social Media’s manufactured race for the bottom of the brainstem: chasing metrics, clout, profit and power.
What Digital Minimalism requires of us is an honest dissection of intent behind each piece of tech that runs us through the digital addiction hamster wheel.
In the rat race of adulting, somewhere left in the dust is the inner child still waiting to play, wanting to create and wanting to share. That dust only gets more and more in the way as real life hits us with more life. It sounds more and more like an excuse we have to give ourselves to maintain the status quo of just keeping up with life.
For this, it’s worth remembering a simpler time before all these distractions.
For sharing art: Remove Social Media from the equation, in its fundamental form “Here, I made this.” Seth Godin put it simply:
“Here” A gift, transferred from one person to another.
“I” The person on the hook.
“Made” Effort, Originality and Skill.
“This” Concrete and Finite.Seth Godin – “The Practice”
