Social Trap
Marta Ciołkowska
Social Trap explores the isolation caused by being constantly online. After 2000, people become a digital flock; a society in which narcissism, egotism, and the hypertrophic flamboyance of the ego become the new manifestations of the self. The digital reconfiguration of distances – produced by the Internet and social media – does not correspond to an effective proximity to the Other. Humans are isolated in a realm of cables and devices that offer us the illusion of inclusion and closeness. New information and communication technologies trap us in a transparent infosphere bubble characterized by unprecedented spatial, temporal, cognitive and social ties.
Text: Maria Chiara Wang.