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Virtual Connections: Sexuality Meets the Internet
Kinsey Today, 2008
As online networks devoted to dating and social interaction grow, they present sex researchers with a new and challenging arena of study.
In the Kinsey Institute Gallery, iGuy (HeLovesMeHeLovesMeNot.com) by artist Robb Stone featured a collection of photo and text-based collage that explores the erotic world of online social networking. All artworks were made specifically for this show and include actual images from websites such as Manhunt and Craigslist, where gay men can post profiles and look for potential partners.
In his artist statement, Stone explained that the images grew from his own experiences visiting adult sites. "I found something both compelling and very poignant about the images I was seeing. It's interesting to see how a male-oriented perspective lends itself to extreme objectification... I wanted to have a show that was informative--in that it would show what an adult profile looks like--and had some general critique about the cultural systems that come into play 'online'. At the same time I wanted the artwork to function as erotica, to be--without critique--a window into this 'way of seeing'. "
Stone suggests that iGuy (HeLovesMeHeLovesMeNot.com) is a further exploration of the concept of "the gaze" and the marketing of desire traditionally applied to imagery of women in the discourse of art and cultural theory. "I suggest that this Gaze, this way of seeing, is not only evident, but reaches an apotheosis in the way that gay men 'look' at each other on the internet. . . .For a period of time I observed myself and others within the framework of this construct known as 'online dating'. What I found was a social order in which the pornographic supersedes the personal. . . . Within these online worlds very little importance is given to individuality or to personal interests. What I see is a kind of looking that tries to not see too much."
Virtual Connections: Sexuality Meets the Internet
Kinsey Today, 2008
As online networks devoted to dating and social interaction grow, they present sex researchers with a new and challenging arena of study.
In the Kinsey Institute Gallery, iGuy (HeLovesMeHeLovesMeNot.com) by artist Robb Stone featured a collection of photo and text-based collage that explores the erotic world of online social networking. All artworks were made specifically for this show and include actual images from websites such as Manhunt and Craigslist, where gay men can post profiles and look for potential partners.
In his artist statement, Stone explained that the images grew from his own experiences visiting adult sites. "I found something both compelling and very poignant about the images I was seeing. It's interesting to see how a male-oriented perspective lends itself to extreme objectification... I wanted to have a show that was informative--in that it would show what an adult profile looks like--and had some general critique about the cultural systems that come into play 'online'. At the same time I wanted the artwork to function as erotica, to be--without critique--a window into this 'way of seeing'. "
Stone suggests that iGuy (HeLovesMeHeLovesMeNot.com) is a further exploration of the concept of "the gaze" and the marketing of desire traditionally applied to imagery of women in the discourse of art and cultural theory. "I suggest that this Gaze, this way of seeing, is not only evident, but reaches an apotheosis in the way that gay men 'look' at each other on the internet. . . .For a period of time I observed myself and others within the framework of this construct known as 'online dating'. What I found was a social order in which the pornographic supersedes the personal. . . . Within these online worlds very little importance is given to individuality or to personal interests. What I see is a kind of looking that tries to not see too much."
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