We zap through time and space at the speed of fiber optic cables. Bodies, selfies, ads, data, bots: everything circulates. Micro-clips of twerking geese scroll into teenage faces, generating new narratives between seemingly unrelated events, while an army of sensors and cameras span the globe in a never-ending livestream of images and data.
Algorithms and platforms curate personalized suspense arcs, plots, and cliffhangers, while memes return to the user like boomerangs at a slow framerate in ever-changing guises.
The technology of our devices, 5G, fiber optic cables beat the beat of the future, making information, objects and images dance: Hyper-Viewing, Super-Saturation, Live, Life!
No update means silence, freeze frame. Who is the author, who is the audience of this interplanetary networked film, an algorithmically independent blockbuster, always on, 24/7? Are we only spectators, or have we long since become actors?
In this seminar we will theoretically and experimentally explore contemporary phenomena and possibilities of the moving image in the context of a digitally networked world. This seminar is complementaring all offered projects of the image & motion area / MXL projects.