Phantom Love is a disappearing army of artificially construed identities, delivering poems written by Constant Dullaart and others, as comments to Instagram images.
The army of fake human microphones questions who or what is amplified on social media and how these constructs are used to mobilise communities in response to certain topics. Often mimicking the nuances and intricacies of human life, bots are being administered in many ways to influence our behavior.
Over a period of several weeks the poems will be delivered to accounts of people or institutions that offer public services. Launching with a poem delivered to the EU Council’s Instagram account, the commission can be viewed on Instagram or via Rhizome's web recorder, in anticipation of the bot accounts being identified and subsequently dismantled. #attentionrip.
Dullaart works primarily with the Internet as an alternative space of presentation and (mis)representation. His often political approach is critical of the control that corporate systems have upon our perception of the world, and the way in which we passively adopt their languages.
Over the course of the commission new drops were made to different accounts released on upprojects.com #thisispublicspace #phantomlove.
Accompanying Phantom Love is a new text by Sam Woolley, which you can download below.
