Friederike Steinert
Title: Paranoia
Duration: 2:48 min
Material: Video
Year: 2019

About:
Video based on the book ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’ by Shoshana Zuboff. I filmed myself without sound, therefore creating a space of positive self-censorship for myself. I spoke about the paranoia, I experience as a result of being online. I overlayed the video with a summary of the book that I translated in google translate from one language to the next until it lost its meaning.

Bio:
My work is the result of a very slow and very modern nervous breakdown. I am interested in understanding how we create our identities and wonder which part social media and algorithms play in the construction of said identities. I am interested in failures and moments of awkwardness. I use video, text, photography, and performance as tools. And I sing a lot. Originally from a journalistic background, I hold a MA in Contemporary Art Practice from from the Royal College of Art in London. I am currently studying at the Academy of fine Arts in Vienna, in Constanze Ruhm’s class