No Body
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People Like You
We believe we are a Self because we experience a continuity throughout our lives. ‘I started kindergarten when I was 5. I got my first job when I was 18. I got married when I was 32…’ etc. Believing we are a Self (ie ‘having an innate, unchanging soul’)...
Forever and ever
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In Love
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Autolimerence
Our Digital Self is separated from the experience of ‘being human’ partly by existing outside the material/real world. Digital You meets up with others online in rooms, boards, sites, platforms – all physical descriptions of non-physical spaces. Post-pandemic, our meetings are on Zoom where even the CEO’s Digital Self...
Don’t Forget Me
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She Needs Your Help
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Consuming Ourselves
Our Digital Self is a product not a person (Solon, 2011). Technological advances in media production over the past 20 years mean that everyone has become a marketing manager, a photographer, a filmmaker, a star, a brand. We have evolved from the postmodern consumer (Fromm, 2013) into the product...
Chroma key
I’ve used my colour-only stop motion videos to play around with a few things. Just mixing them together is pretty… … but kind of reminds me of the 90s Pearl & Dean intro for some reason… I did a lot of playing around with chroma keying out colours on...
Experiments with light
I’ve been continuing to experiment with stop motion. I’ve done several short tests with just colour rather than video....
who are you now?
A short film for our upcoming exhibition....
Twister
Stop motion. 4 second shutter. One layer. Unstable base for both the laptop and the camera. Trying out different shapes and techniques. Update: More layers…...
Copies
Quantum physicists will tell you that there is fundamentally no difference between the real and digital worlds, and of course they are probably correct, but there is a difference between What We Know and How We Live. When we are online, it *feels* different to how it feels to...
Bowie…
I remember the interview Jeremy Paxman did with David Bowie in 1999. I was deep into the web at the moment and was constantly trying to convince people that it was very definitely the start of a revolution and not just ‘the 1990s version of CB radio’… Partial transcriptions...
Always Connected. Always Alone.
When thinking about metamodernism – what it is, how one recognises it – I wrote down some notes on modernism and postmodernism. Along with thinking of the time spans and a few cultural influences, I wanted to come up with a pithy sentence on each of the eras. This...
The Porous Border Between Two Worlds
The early days of the World Wide Web ushered in the era of Cyber Utopianism, a belief that the Web would “boost democratic participation, trigger a renaissance in moribund communities [and] strengthen associational life.” (Morozov, 2011) The act of living a Cyber Utopian life required an existential, Sartrean separation...