Communicative space: an investigation on aesthetics of display through contemporary visual culture

This research project investigated the value on interpersonal communication of social media through the aesthetic of display within Facebook activities. The concept manifests a sense of interconnection, interpretation and manipulation toward freedom of creative communication. The research project focused on vast aspirations and interactions of experiences through overloading information in our contemporary life in through cyber space. The key elements in the research consist of people emotion, sensation, behavioral pattern, manipulation in social interaction. The key artists within the research project are Kurt Shwitters, Barbara Kruger, Lilian Schwartz, Laurence Gartel, Tomako Sawada, Robert Silver and Ismail Zain. The reference of artworks carried out a suggestion on how the digital system with the presence of active participants involvement had been projected and developed to a new digital phenomena through various issues such as freedom of voice, communication without boundries, and sensation and emotion. A studio practice method was used through studio experimentation, self-critical reflection and contextual review approaches. The research project’s contributed to the field of Fine Art has established the collective issues on new culture of communication, exploiting information, portrying social media and the interconnecting relationship as a new way looking at things through the exploitation of visual culture. The research project contributed in correlating of how digital networking become a continuous changing culture of human expression. Furthermore, it would become as a suggestion for new perspective on valuating a new commitment of interacting and seeing in everyday life experiences of contemporary social media culture.