The Effect of Cyberculture Development on Visual Space for

Generation of Millennials in Indonesia

Dwi Sulistyawati

1,2

and Imam Santosa

Faculty of Art and Design, Tarumanagara University

Program Doctoral Faculty of Art and Design, Institute of Technology Bandung

Keywords: Cyberculture, Generation of Millennials, Visual Space

Abstract: The development of contemporary culture through a reflective approach based on empirical experience when

examining the phenomenon of cyberculture domination has an impact on social changes, economics, lifestyle,

shopping style, learning style, social interaction style, sex style, political mobilization by utilizing networking

through social media, and radical mental changes in the lives of our society. The impact of these changes is

certainly also able to explore the existence of Visual Space, where the view of real space and space is not real

formed unconsciously by the digital user community, the majority of which are the Millennials generation.The

generation of Millennials (aka NextGen, Gen-Y, C Generation, M Generation, and Echo Boomers) according

to Strauss-Howe who were born in the period 1982-2004 were the largest generation of digital naratives and

multitaskers. Globally, Millennials are defined as the Millennium generation that grew in a new era of

globalization, communication technology and wireless connectivity. They live in an age of unprecedented

diversity and exposure to other cultures. Millennials grow fast, are very dynamic, and this generation is very

confident.

1 INTRODUCTION

Visual culture in the current information age shows

an increasingly rapid development trend. This

development is caused by a very large dependence on

the world of social life, political economy, culture.

Education and diversity in the presence of visual

technology, such as television, computers, videos,

internet and various visual forms and other visual

products. This can not be separated from the

development of culture in various aspects, especially

culture at the visual level (Visual Culture). Various

problems regarding lifestyle, gender, mass culture,

information politics, mass media, consumerism.

Ecology and Cyber culture are therefore an integral

part of the design problem itself.

Indonesian people now live in a visual culture,

especially media culture, a culture that is truly new

but has a big influence. Now media culture seeps into

every part of human life. This has become a major and

important source of education for our society. Media

culture is born along with the development of

imaging technology and information systems that are

growing rapidly. Things that do not exist in our

society, suddenly come through television screens,

the internet, films and various other forms of media

so as to shape and control the tempo of our lives.

Realities far from other parts of the world can be

witnessed in real time through media technology. In

this day and age it has become a knit for our daily

lives. Media contributes to behavior, thought patterns,

perceptions, and even determines how we dress and

eat. Visual images can now be accessed remotely in

real time, creating a "trans-appearance" condition,

which is the simultaneous presence of millions of

images and information from various sources, space

and time.

Figure 1: Trans Appearance

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Sulistyawati, D. and Santosa, I.

The Effect of Cyberculture Development on Visual Space for Generation of Millennials in Indonesia.

DOI: 10.5220/0009192401720175

In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Intermedia Arts and Creative Technology (CREATIVEARTS 2019), pages 172-175

ISBN: 978-989-758-430-5

Images, Picture or Signs of events that have

replaced experience, have shown that humans in the

community of generations of

Millennials (Gen-

digital) live in the world of Simulacra. Simulacra is a

human who lives in a world of simulations, there is

nothing real outside of simulation, there is no original

that can be replicated. The imperative value of a

production has also been replaced by "Simulation"

models, codes, spectacle and hyperralism.

Communication through the media has made people

trapped in the game Simulacra which is not related to

"external reality". Humans live in the world of

Simulacra, a world filled with images or markers of

events and have replaced real experiences. Life in a

world full of simulations: not real, not authentic, and

cannot be imitated, because what is available is a

simulation. Society as a sociological reality has

vanished replaced by mass or mass. The masses do

not have the predicate, attribute, quality or reference.

2 DEVELOPMENT OF CYBER

CULTURE

Cybernetic roles with various aspects that arise are a

consequence of changes in the socio-cultural system.

When the virtual world dominates the world of

reality, it can be said to be a kind of 'natural or second

world' of contemporary society. Information channels

are free to ambush in the space of activity anytime

and anywhere to enjoy global phenomena by using

their interaction space and increasingly ignoring their

physical existence. Urban vision is then attached to

culture as a part that is integrated with the

development of contemporary society. This tendency

of life is under the influence of Cyberspace and the

idealization of virtual space that has latently

crystallized in society lately. Graphs of Cybernetic

product users (TV, cellphone, PDA. IPhone, monitor

capsule IPad, Android, Blackberry, e-mail. Tweeter,

Friendster, face book, badoo and others) are ranked

highest in Indonesia, the fact that this country is part

of the community consumptive world. Users of social

networks that have plagued lately have motives as

communication media "Silaturahmi" only with old

friends for romance or with certain motives to surf to

build networks and build their businesses, until

finally dependence on several daily activities in

fulfilling life's desires live through the wireless.

In the last 5-10 years, there have been very rapid

changes in building and developing internet networks

that are rapidly becoming a trend of society today,

despite having high simulations and manipulative

effects. Large-scale exoduses from the world

community enter cyberspace, if urbanization is

understood as a shift from village to city and vice

versa, now urbanization is a radical change in

contemporary society from the real world to the

virtual world (Virtual Space through Cybernetics

Systems. Digital internet simulation technology

revolutionizes the scale With many breakthroughs

that facilitate the discovery of new high-speed

communication systems by encapsulating time and

folding the world, silent culture is the current

tendency to reach all parts of the world, everyone is

connected in a hyperlink that resembles a snowball.

3 LACK OF HUMANISTIC

SPIRITS FOR MILLENNIALS

The application of various Cybernetic mechanical

networking systems brings huge, very significant

changes to social and economic system changes. As a

real indication is the emergence of symptoms of

lifestyle changes (communication style, shopping

style, business transaction style, learning style and

sex style) through Cyberspace facilities. Virtual space

facilities seem to be able to change the characteristics

of the urban generation of Millennials with

contemporary culture in the digitization system. In

the context of Millennials-generation society,

urbanization no longer means the movement of

people into cities in real space, but evolves towards

virtual urbanization, namely the massive migration of

people to the digital city center 'Cyberspace'. When

humans arrive at that point, humans are actually in the

condition of an existential crisis.6

Figur 2: Crisis of Existence

A surprising social fact is that users of Cyberspace

facilities penetrate all walks of life and capture all

ages and social strata from center to village to various

satellites farthest from their providers. Living

activities are spent on high acceleration work cycles

into traps in the acceleration rhythm while narrowing

space and time to the journey of spiritual life. The

peak achievement of acceleration on the one hand

increases efficiency, effectiveness and comfort, on the

other hand is a trigger in narrowing the level of

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achievement of humanistic spirituality to share space

and time to carry out small talk, greet and interact

socially. The concept of real presence shifts to space

where the concept of imaginary presence becomes

dominant as an excess of the decline in the quality of

social interaction and the loss of its humanist

tolerance layer.

Figur 3: Decreased Quality of Social Interaction

Civilizations that have lost the meaning of

geography, space and place, are now dominated by

interfaces, namely human relations mediated by

machines, and human relations themselves with

machines: computer screens, televisions, cellular

phones, video cameras. Through a variety of

interfaces it is built like a distance or distanciation

activity, which creates a condition of visibility

without face to face meetings in a situation like this,

not only does the distance between humans disappear

through technological mediation, but also the

boundaries between objects in a virtual abstract

space, in which everything is present, flows and floats

in an 'Instant Civilization'.

4 VISUAL SPACE

The reality of our daily lives is structured as a virtual

world, with our bodies getting the sensation of

touching many things from cyberspace is not really

an actual space in accommodating their activities. At

some point, we are surrounded by virtual space and

confined in an interior interior, a giant giant incubator

(Cyberspace). So that this has an impact on the digital

generation of Visual Space (Millennials) in the real

world itself due to the shift in interest in Visual Space

in the virtual / imaginary world. What is interesting is

that there will be a shift not only in the quality of the

use of space, but even in the quantity requirements of

the actual visual space for the Millennials (Gen-

digital) generation.

Figure 4: Visual Space movement

Realized or not realized, real Visual Space has

experienced a reduction in the meaning of its

existence. The society of the Millennials (Gen-

digital) no longer responds optimally as a result of its

actual activities moving in silence, much time spent

immersed in the Visual Space Imaginary.

Cyberculture can cause the collapse of reality and

give the meaning of Hyperreality (Hyper-reality),

because it has been taken over by virtual engineering

which is considered more real than reality itself,

things that can only be done in real reality, have now

been replaced in virtual reality, such as social

interaction, economic transactions, meetings,

learning etc.

The effect of the existence of actual activity

behavior that moves in a timeless silence will make

the Millennial generation confined in space and time

(alone) will affect their lifestyles, such as one of the

traditions of Japanese society in the era of

technological development, namely Hikikimori

which is really avoided but it can come to anyone,

especially teenagers, without being aware of

themselves.

Figure 5: Hikikimori

The effect of this tradition is that they tend to shut

themselves up in rooms and cool with their own world

without regard to the outside world or real social, so

they do not need a reality space that is too large for

their activities, because everything can be done in one

area. Too long with this tradition will have a negative

impact on the person, therefore a number of health

centers in Japan are active in providing prevention

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against the tradition of adolescent lifestyle that can

have a negative impact.

Behavioral symptoms due to cybernetic effects,

although initially created by humans, in the end

humans are no longer needed because the ruling

system has been able to operate on its own.

Communication expert Marshal McLuhan (famous

for his jargon: Medium is Message), for example,

optimistically sees technology as a 'human extension'

utopia in the future. With technology, we can be sure

that all limitations, barriers and shortcomings of

humans (physical, psychological, spiritual) can be

overcome through the power of science and

technology, especially virtual reality technology,

which can offer a 'new world', which is fully built

artificially (artificial reality) - this is the view of

techno-romantism. (Virtual Displacement)

Figure 6: Illustration of a New World, Artificial Reality

5 CONCLUSION

From the discussion above shows how and for what

individual goals as the Millennials (Gen-Digital)

community uses space is dominated by Visual Space

Imaginary. This is due to being supported by

Cybernetic wireless devices that are increasingly

sophisticated to pamper humans but at the same time

can have a negative impact on humans themselves.

Lifestyle behaves that are realized or not in everyday

life, the presence of a cybernetic system network can

bring about Cyberculture that is endemic to every

generation that uses the wireless technology.

Visual Space Imaginary Domination will give a

change to the Quality and Quantity of Existence of

Actual Visual Space, a deeper study needs to be done,

so that human needs for the existence of an actual

space can still give 'meaning' to human existence

itself.

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