The Visual Detox: How to Consume Media Without Letting it Consume You

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You are what you see- learn how to curate your visual landscape to improve your focus and mental wellbeing. We start seeing the world from the second we open our eyes as a newborn child and - apart from when we're sleeping - we continue that process until the moment we take our last breath, but how often to we stop to think about how what we see shapes how we think We are constantly immersed in a visual world shaped by design decisions, but most of us are unaware of the impact that our visual diet has on our wellbeing. We rarely stop to consider how the messages we take in from the world around us impact our thoughts and feelings, both consciously and unconsiously. The things we see can affect our mood, shift our focus and even change our minds. The Visual Detox will help you take back control of how what you see affects your mind by giving you the tools to conduct your own visual audit, helping you take stock of what messages you are internalising from your environment, break down those messages through case studies and psychological evidence for how images affect us, and perform your very own visual detox to disengage from visuals that aren't serving you with practical advice for interacting critically with your visual landscape.

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Marine Tanguy is the CEO and Founder of MTArt Agency. An advocate for artists since a young age, Marine Tanguy managed her first gallery at age 21 under Steve Lazarides, who discovered Banksy and JR. She opened her first art gallery in Los Angeles at age 23 where she was mentored by Michael Ovitz. After seeing the restrictiveness of the traditional gallery model, Marine launched MTArt Agency in 2015 to build the reputations of the incredible artists and to inspire everyone with their work. Marine was awarded Forbes 2018 30 under 30 Europe- Art & Culture, UK entrepreneur of the year for the 2019 NatWest Awards and Woman of the Year 2021 by WOTC magazine. She is a writer and keynote speaker on contemporary art, art investment, and how art can be used to shape our lives. Her talks include two TEDx Talks on how to transform cities with art and how social media visuals affect our minds.