SPL04
The Art of Being You: Online Authenticity in Learning and Life
Date Thursday, Dec 3 Time – RoomPotsdam III
The web challenges the idea of an authentic, stable ‘self’, as it enables (even demands) the performance of identity across multiple platforms. At the same time, contemporary capitalist society perpetuates a continual quest for authenticity, and frames uniqueness as a moral imperative. How should students, academics and educators negotiate and challenge this techno-social situation? Artist Charlotte Webb turns to art for clues about the possibilities and pitfalls of being ‘you’ online.
**Warning** This talk contains inauthentic material.
Moderator
Charlotte Webb
Project Manager, University of the Arts London, UK
Charlotte Webb is an artist, researcher and writer. She is Project Manager, Student Engagement (Digital) at the University of the Arts London (UAL), where she manages institutional research projects about students' experiences of digital technology for their learning. She tutors on the ‘Developing Academic Practice’ unit at UAL’s Teaching and Learning Exchange. She is currently undertaking an practice-based PhD at Chelsea College of Art, on the impact of the internet on artistic agency and authorship.
She blogs about technology and culture for the Huffington Post and reviews networked art projects for Furtherfield Gallery. She is also a member of Glasshouse, a multi-disciplinary group that explores the world of digital labour. Their project ‘The Work We Want' was shown at the Web We Want festival at London's Southbank Centre in May 2015.