Video
"Evils of human nature on the internet"
2022
individual project
# arduino installation # interactive exhibition
About
This project explores the evils of human nature on the Internet. I wanted to make a showcase of the socially indifferent viewers and the fearful and suffocating victims of online violence, as a way of calling on the public to reject online violence.
Mind mapping
In this section, I analyzed where the origin of human evil comes from, from oneself and one's surroundings respectively.
Stimulating primal desires --- To do evil
Human beings are too materialistic --- Materialism denies the existence of things beyond human perception.
Question
Are you aware of the evil in human nature?
·I felt uncomfortable after observing what people usually say on the internet, I felt that some of the language was too bad and overkill, so I wanted to make a device that could lead people to realize that their actions were wrong.
Strong discipline and limits are needed.
·People need discipline, and most of the time in our lives there will be legal oversight.
Need for the social environment.
·Moral restraint. Peer restraint.
The Internet environment.
·But in the online world, the restraints are relatively weak
Anonymity versus real names
Anonymity
People do not know each other and do not see each other in person. Humans abuse freedom, individuality stands out and amplifies desires.
Autonym
To save face, to know each other, to be able to meet in person. Explicit and visible, leading humans to show hypocrisy and hypocrisy.
The data collected from most social apps found that anonymous apps make up 70% of the social apps. Also based on my initial statistical research. Negative reviews on anonymous social apps are twice as high as real names.
Background analyze
Poorly reviewable platforms on the internet - takeaway apps, movie discussion apps, music apps, shopping apps.
A catalyst for evil
Non-individual causes/public media carry the tempo of Further deterioration of the internet environment. Increasing traffic, hiring of water army, emotional empathy, organizing unconsciousness leading to human attacks, taking sides, and grouping to express agreement or disagreement. The catharsis of human emotions that leading to an unconscious orgy culminating in conflict
Ideation
I wanted to make a showcase of the socially indifferent viewers and the fearful and suffocating victims of online violence, as a way of calling on the public to reject online violence.
However, the bad reviews appear as the characters struggle to match the changing heat of the comments
Principle diagram
Process
Code
Testing
Reflection
Auyonym
Turn on the light
Anonymity
Turn off the light
I struggled a lot with the form of expression of the figures, for example, the pumping machine was not able to pump the air to the desired effect, which was a bit different from what I expected, and the final part of the display had a tube inserted into a plastic bag to pump the air.
I wanted the audience to reseal through this project that the subconscious influence of one's actions and language is actually very significant and that we should be aware of what we say and do and not speak freely, although, in a relatively anonymous environment, the impact can be immeasurable.
