The use of social networks that creates harmful addiction, isolation, accumulation of somatic illnesses, anxiety, depression and, eventually, leading even... Read More
The use of social networks that creates harmful addiction, isolation, accumulation of somatic illnesses, anxiety, depression and, eventually, leading even to suicide, are studied on a large scale today. One of the things we have as a factual example is the leak of internal information from Meta (the company that owns Facebook and Instagram), called the Facebook papers. Based on this discussion, I began to create artistic pieces that use psychiatric medicines together with electronic waste.
Big Tech Lab Mouse is one of these pieces, which aims to discuss the consequences for people's mental health due to the use of social networks, which treat us as guinea pigs to experiment with their desire induction algorithms for advertising purposes and for A.I. training.