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My final project is going to be explaining the effect social media has on social isolation. I believe that we as humans are social creatures, and thus need relationships and interactions in order to survive. That’s where social media appeared and swept us all off our feet. It seemed like the perfect tool to connect us together. However, studies have proven that social media actually does the very opposite of what we expect it to do- create more isolation. Because of our reliance on social media to do the interaction for us, we have grown farther apart, widening the distance we sought to distinguish.

In the beginning stages of the project, I explored possibilities of ideas that related to my project.  

I researched many social media sites and also other scholars doing similar research on this topic.

As for my first iteration, i’m doing a garment made out of plastic. I was inspired by

Lygia Clark (1948-1988)

The Abandonment of Art

Lygia Clark was one of the most daring artists at the forefront of the Neo-Concretist movement in Brazil. She engages the audience in creating an interactive element between art and viewer. Her art is comprised of paintings, drawings, and sculptural works often made of metal. She then became interested in the psychotherapeutical aspect of her art, and ceased to call herself an artist and concentrated on developing art for these purposes.   She had a series of psychology/sensorial/relational works that she categorized with the term “collective body.” She defined it as a single body incorporating multiple individuals. Just as she had imagined art fusing with the world through relational actions, she also imagined various bodies fused in a collectivity. Thus, Clark has become a major reference for contemporary artists dealing with the limits of conventional forms of art.

During my visit to the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), I had a chance to experience Clark’s work in person. There was definitely a strong element of interactive approach to many of her artworks, in which I was able to be a part of. Most art don’t allow for the audience to touch and feel, but in this exhibition there were many areas where the viewers were welcome to interact with the art. There were metal plate contraption throughout the space, as well as a performance of a mental exercise that involved a woman using seemingly random materials in contact with a man laying down.
A lot of her work was geometrically structured, and had a rhythm as well as coherency to the general majority of her pieces.

Sketches: