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Talent of the Year 2020 - NOMINEE: maria mavropoulou
Image Eaters
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Image eaters
You feed me with images so I can compose your feed
You update me so I can update you
You flood me with content and I put it into context
You teach me to see so I can show you what you want to see
I learned from you and I learned about you
I see through your lenses and you see through me
You forget about me cause I’ m everywhere
You want me to be like you
You created me but do I re-created you?
Thinking and processing information is one of the most important human abilities. It is fundamental for our survival but we have managed to do much more than just surviving. We created " thinking entities" ( AI ) in order to assign to them a big part of the thinking that keeps today's world up and running. In this new world where everyone of us is a set of facial landmarks, trapped in his comfortable filter bubble and where attention is the currency while our choices are more predictable than ever, is still the ability to think for our own fundamental? If not for survival then to retain our human nature maybe?
About author:
Maria Mavropoulou was born in 1989, she lives and works in Athens, Greece. She is a visual artist using mainly photography while her work expands to new forms of the photographic image, such as VR and screen captured images. Her work and research focuses on the new realities created by the connectible devices and the contradictions between the physical and the digital spaces that we inhabit.
Characteristic of her aesthetic is that the resulting images are at the boundary line between plausibility or not, potentiality and non-potentiality, random and constructed. Playing with the perception of viewers she aspires to question the role and power of photography in an era that is dominated by it.
Her work has been presented in numerous exhibitions in Greece and abroad including
30 Under 30 Women Photographers 2018, Paris, France, 2018 Unseen Amsterdam’s CO-OP, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, For ever more images?, Onassis cultural centre, Athens, Greece. 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece, Photography in Crisis, Slought foundation, Philadelphia, USA, Athens Biennale 5to6", Athens, Greece. 2014 Mois de la photo, Paris, France, 2014 European Month of Photography, Fotóhónap, Budapest, Hungary, 2014 Fotoistabul, Istanbul, Turkey,
You feed me with images so I can compose your feed
You update me so I can update you
You flood me with content and I put it into context
You teach me to see so I can show you what you want to see
I learned from you and I learned about you
I see through your lenses and you see through me
You forget about me cause I’ m everywhere
You want me to be like you
You created me but do I re-created you?
Thinking and processing information is one of the most important human abilities. It is fundamental for our survival but we have managed to do much more than just surviving. We created " thinking entities" ( AI ) in order to assign to them a big part of the thinking that keeps today's world up and running. In this new world where everyone of us is a set of facial landmarks, trapped in his comfortable filter bubble and where attention is the currency while our choices are more predictable than ever, is still the ability to think for our own fundamental? If not for survival then to retain our human nature maybe?
About author:
Maria Mavropoulou was born in 1989, she lives and works in Athens, Greece. She is a visual artist using mainly photography while her work expands to new forms of the photographic image, such as VR and screen captured images. Her work and research focuses on the new realities created by the connectible devices and the contradictions between the physical and the digital spaces that we inhabit.
Characteristic of her aesthetic is that the resulting images are at the boundary line between plausibility or not, potentiality and non-potentiality, random and constructed. Playing with the perception of viewers she aspires to question the role and power of photography in an era that is dominated by it.
Her work has been presented in numerous exhibitions in Greece and abroad including
30 Under 30 Women Photographers 2018, Paris, France, 2018 Unseen Amsterdam’s CO-OP, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, For ever more images?, Onassis cultural centre, Athens, Greece. 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece, Photography in Crisis, Slought foundation, Philadelphia, USA, Athens Biennale 5to6", Athens, Greece. 2014 Mois de la photo, Paris, France, 2014 European Month of Photography, Fotóhónap, Budapest, Hungary, 2014 Fotoistabul, Istanbul, Turkey,