Fotomuseum Winterthur | Online Events | Wednesday, 11.12.2024, 19:00–20:00
Screen Walk with Lauren A. Miller
Lauren A. Miller
In this Screen Walk, researcher Lauren A. Miller will explore Meta’s and Instagram's most popular face filters before they will be discontinued in January 2025. Using herself as both researcher and participant, Miller will document her experience applying these filters, turning this fleeting form of augmented reality (AR) into a more permanent record. The conversation will focus on twelve different types of AR filters, critiqued through a feminist lens that questions digital beauty standards.
The Screen Walk will also address the legitimacy of using filters to subvert beauty ideals and examine how claims of empowered technology use are challenged by Meta's decision to remove these filters. The talk will celebrate the creativity of AR filters and selfie culture while critically reflecting on their flaws and the lasting impact of Meta's removal of the technology from their platforms.
In Screen Walks, a series of live-streamed explorations of digital spaces, selected artists and researchers investigate artistic strategies taking place online. The project gives an insight into practices using the screen as a medium. From re-contextualising pictures found on online marketplaces and uncovering data brokers’ invisible circulation of images to analysing in-game photography and the social, political and economic implications of games – Screen Walks examines various approaches, offers a behind-the-scenes look at artists’ work and uncovers new, current and forgotten digital spaces. Screen Walks is a collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery in London and Fotomuseum Winterthur.
The event is free and takes place on Zoom. Details on how to access the talk will be confirmed upon registration. REGISTER HERE.
Biography:
Lauren A. Miller is currently a confirmed PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, AU. Prior to returning to study, Miller spent almost a decade working in marketing and social media management. Her PhD project examines Instagram’s augmented reality filters through a sociotechnical lens, with a focus on how the technology impacts beauty and surgery culture. Miller's research interest include feminist approaches to social media, digital privacy and surveillance, digital beauty cultures, theories of the technology user as cyborg and digital embodiment praxis.
Screen Walks has launched a subscription model called Folders. Via a personal folder, subscribers receive access to exclusive content such as digital artworks by the artists participating in Screen Walks. Subscribe to Folders!
The Screen Walk will also address the legitimacy of using filters to subvert beauty ideals and examine how claims of empowered technology use are challenged by Meta's decision to remove these filters. The talk will celebrate the creativity of AR filters and selfie culture while critically reflecting on their flaws and the lasting impact of Meta's removal of the technology from their platforms.
In Screen Walks, a series of live-streamed explorations of digital spaces, selected artists and researchers investigate artistic strategies taking place online. The project gives an insight into practices using the screen as a medium. From re-contextualising pictures found on online marketplaces and uncovering data brokers’ invisible circulation of images to analysing in-game photography and the social, political and economic implications of games – Screen Walks examines various approaches, offers a behind-the-scenes look at artists’ work and uncovers new, current and forgotten digital spaces. Screen Walks is a collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery in London and Fotomuseum Winterthur.
The event is free and takes place on Zoom. Details on how to access the talk will be confirmed upon registration. REGISTER HERE.
Biography:
Lauren A. Miller is currently a confirmed PhD student at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, AU. Prior to returning to study, Miller spent almost a decade working in marketing and social media management. Her PhD project examines Instagram’s augmented reality filters through a sociotechnical lens, with a focus on how the technology impacts beauty and surgery culture. Miller's research interest include feminist approaches to social media, digital privacy and surveillance, digital beauty cultures, theories of the technology user as cyborg and digital embodiment praxis.
Screen Walks has launched a subscription model called Folders. Via a personal folder, subscribers receive access to exclusive content such as digital artworks by the artists participating in Screen Walks. Subscribe to Folders!
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