Essai

Screen Time

Artistic Networked Chronotopes

Anitra Lourie

This article examines contemporary artists’ appropriation of social media platforms to explore new narrative forms. In addition to the aesthetic and thematic qualities of these works, artists’ social media narratives reveal pragmatic and discursive qualities, notably unique space-time configurations. Artists such as Molly Soda, Amalia Ulman, Martine Gutierrez, or even the design team Brud’s Instagram CGI character Lil Miquela, highlight the temporal and spatial narrative dimensions of social media designs and the ways these platforms facilitate, guide, and frame self-representation and storytelling. This article will explore the ways in which...