In the incessant and frenetic context of the social media
feed,
the symbolic and aesthetic value of the printed
poster is questioned
by the immediacy and volatility of the
post as a public act.
The post can thus be seen as a new digital poster, as a form of expression and immediate sharing of virtually anything that crosses our minds.
Designed by Marta Azevedo. Project for Masters in Communication Design Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, 2022/ 2023 Project II and Lab II. All textual contents based on texts by: Paul Soulellis, Margaret Timmers & Andrew Blauvelt.
“(…) we experience information as a smooth, conversational flow — not individual events, like a post or a published edition of the news — but as an ongoing, on-demand chat. The sense is that the information is always there and available, as a presence in the space, to be called forth when needed.”
Soulellis, P. (2017). Performing the Feed.
"The poster persists not on the basis of its useful value as a device to reach the masses but on its aesthetic and symbolic value. (...) the poster’s appeal is a product of both its absence — as a blank slate full of creative potential — and its presence as a physically autonomous, discrete object."
Blauvelt, A. (2011). The Persistence of Posters.
“The post — the individual, granular unit of the feed — is significant only in its accumulation. (...) Our relationship to the production and consumption of information has become a frenzied, relentless condition that surpasses individual control. The post, now stripped of any ability to empower, barely registers.
Soulellis, P. (2019). Feed Time.
