A growing number of artists uses the internet, social media and SNSS in many different ways. The two main ones are a) as a way to keep an ‘archive’ of their works, and also ‘advertise’ their art to a broader audience and b) as a new medium for their art. This new generation of artists uses SNSs as the medium for their Art. Through their online personas, they show parts of their secret, hidden, daily rituals, which women usually choose not to share with the world, since they are supposed to be very personal and intimate, and even shameful. E.g. shaving, spending hours on putting on makeup or hair and skincare, etc. On Instagram, Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter, contradictory to the norms, young female web artists fight with smartphones and hashtags …show more content…
Artists like Molly Soda and Amalia Ulman are part of the first generation of adolescents and young women to share their poignant, private moments and thoughts through the growing trend of online diaries, which still have a confessional character but exposed to the world. (Priganica & Cagnon, 2017) Amalia Ulman has turned Instagram into a site of performance art. In her project, a five-month-long performance she documented the life (relationships, mental health, etc.) of a woman who just moved to LA, dissolving the obsession we have with our image. Amalia’s work often reveals we're just the caricatures of our real selves. She argues that it is ‘another kind of cliché, in the way society is structured;’ (Petty, …show more content…
“There’s a difference between humour and parody,” she says. “People denounce my performance and say it’s like, you’re laughing at basic bitches. But, you know, I’m also a little bit of a basic bitch—I’m laughing at myself a little bit. I’m also all these things—the cat lady, the crazy female artist, the feminist, and I’m the conservative woman who goes to work every day. And I’m tapping into all these things. I don’t stand on the outside and just judge.” (Freeman,