Smart Phone Addiction

 

There are countless benefits of smartphones. Thanks to them, we have all the information and tool kits in our hands. But behind those benefits there are crucial side effects, that we should be aware of. These negative effects vary both psychological and physically. A major one is isolation, being connected to everyone in virtual world lets us become lonelier in real life. We get to chose the amount of relationship and connection we want, but no text message or phone call can compare to a face to face conversation or a hug. All so we have the ability to think before every word we share and send. We control our presentations by editing and deleting whatever we want to change. Leaving us unrealistic conversations and hidden personalities; because it is when we loose our words that we find ourselves.

This online communication also effects our relationships in real life. Everyone has experienced being ignored by someone staring at their phone or escaping from surroundings with a smartphone. What does this behavior tell to observers is “you are not as important as this device”.

Despite these behavior changes, our bodies also change with increasing smartphone use. For example the percentage of individuals with myopia have doubled in the last ten years because of the blue screen lights. More over, backbone diseases have increased significantly on account of our neck positions during the long hours we spend, staring to our phones.

Above all, what magnifies the problem is, the lack of awareness. Many of us are spending hours and hours on our phones never thinking how they are effecting us. Letting them control who we are. Only with awareness we can take action to decrease the side effects of our smartphones. Only with awareness we can put limits to our relationships with phones.

In order to raise awareness I have a project. I have made 6 visual clay plates, illustrating a different aspect of phone addiction. All of them are 2.5 x 2.5 inches with different designs. Main inspiration for these pieces are ancient hieroglyphs because they were a form of communication when no technology existed. They’d what we are doing with our phones, when no technology was available. Ironically they have used the same technique our smart phones are using. They are both illustrating everything with a mixture of images, symbols and writings; even though there is a huge technological contrast between them. This contrast is the reason I choose hieroglyphs, because it demonstrate how long we have came without the smartphones and how it is possible to use them less.

Illustrations on the plates are designed in order to raise questions about smart phone usage. For example one of them is a tongue out mouth that has a little smartphone on the tongue just like a drug, and an other one is a hand holding a smart phone high as if it was blessing the phone in front of a triangle to symbolize the power we give to our phones. The colors on all of them are the same. Two brown-creme tones to real the background color of hieroglyphs. Orange for smart phones to symbolize both danger and a wanted fruit. Blue for people to symbolize the value of us and how we are actually in control. And finally some black to make contrast.

If we can exhibit these visual plates on streets as a form of art. We could easily raise awareness to the dangers of smartphones. Therefor my prospect with this project is to be able to putt them on public walls, bus stops and even bathroom doors, anywhere where a great amount can see them. I believe that it is possible to take control over or smartphones.

 

research paper: final seminar-2ba0s69

 

Here are the clay illustrations:

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Here are the street displays:

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Work in Progress:

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