SCRAPE ELEGY
A private restroom for reflection on your internet life.
An installation for a solo audience member that takes a single scraped data point (data scraping is a common tool used by advertising bots) and gives you back a mourning poem. A sweet little drown in the doom scroll. An ode to the late capitalist hell that makes even the worst of us valuable.
"Scrape Elegy is a comedic mourning poem, a monologue, and a private show for the individual in a commercialized, globalized, corporate, pink Instagram world."
Gabby Bush and Monica Lim
Journal for Artistic Research
"Scrape Elegy spits you out a personalised profile based on what's in your mobile phone using data-matching software"
"It was almost like a really bad meditation session. I encourage you to experience this for yourself."
Rebecca Lush
Curate Your Own Adventure
"It’s so divisive, in a good way"
“Some people come out of it so delighted and teary about things they’d forgotten, and other people come out of it horrified at how much information that we put out there”
Concept and artwork by Willoh Weiland
Creative producing by Gabby Bush
Composition by Monica Lim
Coding by Michael Mikho
Design by Lauren Stellar and Willoh Weiland
Built by Loftetcetera Studios
Design input by Anna Tregloan
Curated by Ryan Jeffries
Commissioned by Science Gallery Melbourne as part of the SWARM Exhibition in partnership with the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts through the Experimental Arts Fellowship and the Interaction Design Lab, Melbourne University
Photo credit: Alan Weedon, Lauren Stellar
