Imma Is an Art Wiener

November 22, 2020

HallOooo! It is so nice to join your face to the words I typed in front of my face. Time to sip some tea or coffee because here’s the question of the day:

Imma is for who?

Imma is a cool girl with a TikTok and an Instagram for everyone else, including the older millennials who remember watching Tiny Toon Adventures. She hangs out at boutiques in Harajuku, poses in front of the right art exhibitions, and eats fun ice cream with other influencers. She remembers to bring her reusable shopping bag when running errands. She is really good at doing the right things, never the wrong things. She is a role model for girls. A virtual role model, rather, as Imma is a virtual girl. She’s CGI. 

So now that this future that every sci-fi dystopian storyline ever warned us about is here, without asking us first, we should really consider some alt possibilities.

Immagine Imma. 

Immmmagine Immmmma as spam?

Imma as Annlee? 

Quick, tell Pierre Hugyhe! Or not. Let’s be art wieners together and come up with a project about Imma. I called it, art wieners.

So. Time to reconsider if we want to offload our icky advertising jobs away from starved models and onto starved other-than-humans. How do we make these spam images fat? 

Links to references in case there’s some need for clarity

Annlee and Pierre Hugyhe https://www.stretcher.org/features/no_ghost_just_a_shell/

Imma https://www.instagram.com/imma.gram/

Hito Steyerl on spam images https://www.e-flux.com/journal/32/68260/the-spam-of-the-earth-withdrawal-from-representation/

Thank you so very much for reading. I want to learn from you, too, as if I were a machine-learning being.