Horror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwGWOOjkdkQ Within 9 chapters, Horror shows the examples of almost all listed reasons why a YouTube video can be reported: Spam or Misleading, Misinformation, Harassment, Harmful or dangerous content, Sexual content, Violent or repulsive content, and Promoting Terrorism. Inspired by the 9 circles of hell from Dante's Divine Comedy, we descend from common nuisances like spam to major evils, with each circle sinking deeper into 'YouTube hell'. Watching pixelated and superimposed scenes through a hole-like circle, the viewer is implicated in a voyeuristic act that blurs the boundary between sight and imagination. The footage of these horrors is collected from youtube, 'dark corners' of the internet, and art history, raising questions of censorship and violence within images and within art. In fact, when assessed by YouTube's 'community guidelines', a huge amount of historical painting would have to be reported. But if art wants to be true to reality in a critical sense, it cannot avoid to show its horrors. What happens within the aesthetic process that transforms the horrors of reality into artistic images? The soundtrack is entirely composed from samples found in YouTube's audio library in the category 'Horror', and does not belong to the original footage. The website-specific series 'Audio Library of a Viewable World' consists of videos made for each of the categories in YouTube's audio library. Many of the videos turn functions like shortcuts, subtitles or livestreams into deliberately interactive features of the artwork.