Sijun Liu 刘思均
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📰 News Screener 新闻过滤器
In today's China, sensational news of all kinds pervades all aspects of our lives.
This project is inspired by the intrusive and grievous issues reported by 'people' in the context of the China Eastern Airlines incident, and thus asks the question “Is everyone a journalist?” Inspired by the visual experimentation of using a hammer to remove 'useless' words and phrases from the text, I created a fictional machine that could constantly crawl through the news, and I disguised myself as a filter to produce and record the act of knocking down the machine, with the intention of reflecting on and paying attention to the current news chaos, resulting in two parts: the video and the paper media.
当今时代的中国，各式各样的煽情新闻充斥在我们生活的方方面面。本项目由东航事件下「人物」报道笔下的侵扰悲痛问题为启发，发现在中国各种媒介下的新闻报道存在类似美国“黄色新闻”的趋向性——具有戏剧化标题、煽情化语段与模糊化信源的呈现，进而提出“人人都是记者？”的疑问。受视觉尝试过程中使用锤子敲击刀模以去除文中“无用”词汇语段的启发，虚构了一个可以不断爬取新闻的机器，并由自己化身为过滤者产生敲击去除机器行为并记录，意在表示对于当下新闻乱象的反思与重视，最终形成影像与实体纸媒两部分内容作品。
In the video, I take on the role of screen worker in front of a machine that constantly gets all kinds of news, constantly filtering and trying to weed out the useless sensationalism of the modern information world.
This zine uses data visualisation to compare Chinese journalistic chaos with yellow journalism, linking ‘sensational words’ to ‘likes’ and counting different news catalogues, content and the words that recur in them.