Tittytainment Age: Exploring the flipside of Collective Intelligence

Tittytainment Age is an online exhibition that sits in the Logan Symposium 2020 hosted by The Centre of Investigative Journalism (CIJ), a think-tank, training and promoting innovative journalism. Through the use of a virtual lift we explore the manipulating power that plays in the formation of subjectivity and agency. On the one hand, media, big data, and the social, political, financial interconnectedness which creates chains of actions/reactions in perpetual motion and poses a massive impact to the society; on the other hand, the majority of people are unwittingly trapped in a deadening lack of agency situation. This exhibition responds to Logan Symposium’s theme of Collective Intelligence. Tittytainment describes a phenomenon in reference to a pacifying effect of being entertained by ‘intellectually undemanding content’, which inhibits people from thinking. We view this phenomenon to be the opposing perspective of collective intelligence. Our vision is to search for the possibility of forming a collective agency that will deal with the unseen manipulating power and unforeseen consequences of all those.