Most of this is not social media art (a highly contested term to begin with), some is not performance art, but I hope all of this work can be used as inspiration.
Part of Vito Acconci, Theme Song (1973)
Part of Kate Gilmore, Star Bright, Star Might (2007)
Molly Soda, F_A_D_E (2019)
Part of Omer Fast's CNN Concatenated (2002)
Joseph DeLappe, Dead-in-Iraq (2007)
DeLappe:
The project dead-in-iraq is an online memorial and protest taking place within the US Army recruiting game, "America's Army". I enter the game as "dead-in-iraq" in order to manually type the name, age, service branch, date of death of each service person who has died to date in Iraq using the game's text message. The work is essentially a fleeting, online memorial to those military personnel who have been killed in this ongoing conflict. My actions are also intended as a cautionary gesture.
The project dead-in-iraq is an online memorial and protest taking place within the US Army recruiting game, "America's Army". I enter the game as "dead-in-iraq" in order to manually type the name, age, service branch, date of death of each service person who has died to date in Iraq using the game's text message. The work is essentially a fleeting, online memorial to those military personnel who have been killed in this ongoing conflict. My actions are also intended as a cautionary gesture.
Oliver Laric, 50 50 (2007)
Short video essay on Amalia Ulman's Excellences and Perfections (2014)
Excerpt of Harvey Nikolai Keith's film Mondo New York (1988) featuring performance by Karen Finley
Here is an article I wrote on a very different disease, yet one that can help us think through the concept of virality in relation to the body-in-motion:
Heather Warren-Crow, "Acquired Community: Leigh Bowery and Hail the New Puritan's Mise-en-Scene of AIDS"
from Different Bodies: Essays on Disability in Film and Television, ed. Marja Mogk
from Different Bodies: Essays on Disability in Film and Television, ed. Marja Mogk
Here are a couple of old pieces I made using social media--specifically, the live streaming platform Ustream:
Heather Warren-Crow, 139 Assisted Confessions
(After 1984 After 1984, or Confession is the Princess of Evidence) (2011)
(After 1984 After 1984, or Confession is the Princess of Evidence) (2011)
This piece was live streamed over 4 hours and edited down to a video of just under 12 minutes long. For the piece, I removed key words from a confession from George Orwell's novel 1984 and had participants fill in the blanks, as in the game of MadLibs.
Heather Warren-Crow, Bedtime Ritual for Suffragettes
(At Any Given Time, Someone in the World is Taking to Her Bed) (2011)
(At Any Given Time, Someone in the World is Taking to Her Bed) (2011)