Finalist in the Arte Laguna Prize 9th Edition in the Virtual & Digital Arts category in 2015, Telecom Italia Future Centre
“As
you are falling, your sense of orientation may start to play additional tricks
on you. The horizon quivers in a maze of
collapsing lines and you may loose a sense of above and below, of before and
after, of yourself and your boundaries.”
Hito Steyerl
The internet has become the new horizon. We try to place ourselves, and determine our
position, in relation to it. As we do
this, we find the self becoming more weightless to gravity. In an essay written by Hito Steyerl entitled
‘In Free Fall’, whereby she discusses this state of movement and its
relationship to the internet, Hito makes it clear how we judge distance
through observation and self relationship to another object. This text has become a backbone to the
development of my practice. This idea
has connections with the sublime entering into the void, and proves to relate
these topics in enhancing ideas. My
practice discusses both of these areas through video and photography works that
combine pace, scale, appropriation and interaction.
Running through these works is the idea of how
the public interacts with the internet and how they change trends with rapid
responses, indicating a sense of loss of control. These ideas have come together in my final
body of work to create a demanding, immersive and engaging experience for the
viewer. With this immersive online
activity, it is a topic that is constantly changing and being adapted to on a
daily basis, making it a virtually groundless platform to work within.
