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Screen Walk With Conor McGarrigle
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Conor McGarrigle's Screenwalk looked at the relationships between algorithms, data and images through the lens of two of his internet projects separated by a decade, the BitTorrent Trilogy and 24hour Social. BitTorrent at its peak around 2009 consumed 60-80% of the bandwidth of the internet globally. It was the largest decentralised network of image circulation the world has ever seen dwarfing even Netflix, and most of it was illegal. In the Screen Walk McGarrigle exposed how internet protocols and video codecs came together in the BitTorrent Trilogy to visualise the hidden sociality of file sharing swarms with aleatory images of often striking beauty. Ten years later, for 24hour Social, the artist downloaded a full day of videos, with one video for every second, from the now defunct Vine video sharing social platform. At one level a celebration of individual creativity, shared memes and the weird internet, the project shows how data underpins everything, as social media platforms use the generation and circulation of images to surveil and track their users. This Screen Walk was a collaboration with PhotoIreland 2020 . The 11th edition of PhotoIreland Festival – Ireland’s internati…
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Screen Walks
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Screen Walks, Conor McGarrigle, social-media, aesthetics, circulation
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