Marc Lee: Political Campaigns – Battle of Opinion on Social Media, 2017

Political Campaigns – Battle of Opinion on Social Media, 2017

Swiss artist Marc Lee based his work, Political Campaigns - Battle of Opinion on Social Media, on his early project, TV-Bot, for which he programmed a Bot to generate an automatic TV show in real time based on the latest Twitter, Instagram and YouTube posts. This new version again generates a TV show, this time focusing on political campaigns. We have observed the inordinate role that social media channels play in fighting out and manipulating electoral campaigns worldwide. What counts today are how many “likes” and “retweets” one gets – they flicker across the screen in Lee’s work, shedding light on a given politician’s current "market value." For several years now, Lee has been grappling with the ways in which social network platforms reflect political debates. For Political Campaigns, as with past works, Lee choses the format of an interactive, net-based TV show, so as to confront us with current opinions that exist well outside our personal "filter bubbles.”

Artwork: https://marclee.io/en/politica...
Artist: http://marclee.io