Welcome to My Filter Bubble!
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In the Welcome to My Filter Bubble! workshop we reflected on our online behaviours and freedom of choice in the Internet. We turned our thoughts into a physical installation of hanging 'filter bubbles'. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

In the beginning of the workshop we looked at our favourite things in the Internet. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

Then it was time to take the online content from our filter bubbles and turn it into a physical form, such as the YouTube star Julien Bam, which became a central character of one of the bubbles. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

Here's a collection of preferred and non-preferred content. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

Large, acrylic half-spheres served as the basic structure for the filter bubbles. / Photo by Theron Burger

Although the acrylic half-spheres were very elegant in themselves, our aim was to cover them in kitschy DIY materials. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

Here is one bubble by two friends with Julien Bam as a central figure. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

Testing how the inside of the bubble looks like. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

Inside the bubble ended up all the preferred things. Julien Bam was already mentioned, but the other favourites included Minecraft, physics, Star Wars, Simpsons and the Primitive Technology YouTube channel. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

On the outside of the bubble remained the non-interesting things such as beauty and health, soccer, news and - sadly - cat videos. The big, crossed-over thing in the middle is politics. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

The second bubble got a golden coating, leaving the outside mysterious. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

Inside came two areas: a black area for the not-so-comfortable things in the Internet and a brighter area with more positive things. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

On the black area were fake news, advertisements and surveillance, among other things. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

In between the areas hung a little envelope, inside which one cold find nice and nasty comments. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

The positive area was 'Home'. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

We also soldered some short RGB LED strips in order to light up the insides of the bubbles. / Photo by Theron Burger

Here's the whole bubble from the inside. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

The third filter bubble got an edge of long tinsel. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

The idea was to place hanging elements in between the tinsel, which illustrated nice things to enjoy in the Internet. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

There were horses... / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

...and there were robots. Plus couple of singers. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

One could get lost inside the bubble... / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

...although it was quite cozy in there. / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

In the end we tested the hanging concept and it worked thankfully well! / CC BY Kati Hyyppä

The bubbles in the Digitale Welten exhibition. / Photo by Merten Giesen