Lecture performance at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity
2019
Photography by Jessica Wittman
SICK SPEECH is an installation, film and lecture performance examining the influence of social media and biased algorithms on mental health and mass violence. Taking up the posthumous position of Nasim Aghdam, former social media star later known as the YouTube shooter, I examine how YouTube’s biased algorithm impacted Aghdam and the greater YouTube community and the correlation between mass violence, isolation and the desire for fame. Oscillating between news media reporting, my own text, found imagery and staged photos, I reframe her story within the context of immigration trauma and misogyny, applying a feminist perspective to societal reactions towards her and her actions.
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The Innocence of Unknowing at Tribeca Film Festival (Immersive)
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Contact: ryat.yezbick [at] gmail.com
Photography: Hagen Betzwieser, Keelan O’Hehir, Jessica Wittman, Panayiotis Tsangas, Cedric Tai, Eleni Maligoura, Zach Korol-Gold, Gabriel Sweet, Jen Gilomen
Copyright @2022 Ryat Yezbick. All rights reserved.
The Innocence of Unknowing at Tribeca Film Festival (Immersive)
Recent
Workers Fleeing the Factory in MIMESIS Magazine
grip at other others // rehearsals in the skin at Human Resources
Contact: ryat.yezbick [at] gmail.com
Photography: Hagen Betzwieser, Keelan O’Hehir, Jessica Wittman, Panayiotis Tsangas, Cedric Tai, Eleni Maligoura, Zach Korol-Gold, Gabriel Sweet, Jen Gilomen
Copyright @2022 Ryat Yezbick. All rights reserved.