Self-Love Scroll explores how being more connected to our bodies might help us think differently about our relationship with social media.

You are invited to participate in Self-Love Scroll, an artist-led workshop that encourages embodied creative thinking about the habit of digital scrolling.

We’ve all been there, lying on our backs, necks craned, our phones hovering over us, scrolling endlessly. It’s as if scrolling through the “feed” might be changing how we use our bodies, engage with our feelings, and develop our identities. Social media serve up posts on an infinite scroll, an endless stream of one-liners, loved ones faces, headlines, and memes. These feeds are designed to narrow our focus, keeping us fixed on the screen as we consume more.

Self-Love Scroll will explore how being more connected to our bodies might help us think differently about our relationship with social media. The goal: to unstick ourselves from the screen so we can develop a more critical understanding of the design techniques that reel us into our smartphones.

This workshop will take you through a series of creative group activities. You will not be asked any direct questions or expected to talk extensively about yourself. It is part of a research project that investigates how art and creative approaches can help to support more critical, playful and imaginative ways of relating to digital technology and its negative effects on mental health.

Self-Love Scroll will be led by psychotherapist, artist, and Bandwidth Care founder Marcus Brittian Fleming and researcher and curator Vanessa Bartlett. The workshop is part of the HOOKED exhibition at Science Gallery Atlanta. HOOKED delves into the complex world of addiction and recovery — examining addiction as a fundamental risk of being human.

Participants must be 18 years of age or older.