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Digital Distress – Consumed by Infinity

08 Dec 2017 - 25 Mar 2018

Digital Distress – Consumed by Infinity
Andreas Kurtsson, 2016
DIGITAL DISTRESS – CONSUMED BY INFINITY
Kah Bee Chow, Andreas Kurtsson, Alexandra Lerman, Adriana Ramić
8 December 2017 – 25 March 2018

This could be an example of AI generated concrete poetry, or how digitalization appears in the augmented reality of our everyday lives. The interface between cloud and body, hardware and soul.


Ghosting
iPhone elbow
Infinite scrolling Phygital
Facial puppetry Swype

Street view
Biometrics Machine learning
Google translate iRobot GDPR
Vaporwave Phishing Skeuomorph

Filter bubble eSports i-Frame destruction
Super-hybridity Datamosh Brain-machine interface Videoglitch
Facial recognition ASMR
#Additivism Content-Aware Fill Fake news
Copypasta Shitposting TIL NSFW Chatbot
Hypernormalisation
Post-digital Off-the-grid





Kah Bee Chow
Two furry robotic vacuum cleaners perform an intricate choreography – part household chores, part improvised couple dancing – in an algorithmic balance between technical aid and pet-like behavior.

Andreas Kurtsson
A fictionalized travel journal from a trip to Facebook’s semi-secret datacenter in Luleå. High technology and primeval forest live side by side in two parallel feeds.

Alexandra Lerman
The patented and copyrighted system of Apple Inc.’s and Google LLC’s touchscreen gestures as raw material. The contemporary body language of “pinches”, “scrolls” and “slides” shared by everyone, everywhere, everyday.

Adriana Ramić
Ant pathways are traced onto a Swype keyboard which interprets fingertip swipes into text in any of the 71 languages supported by its patented technology. The effects of technology on human language seen through insect behavior.