By Katie Bush
Lovekatie.com opens with a colorful image of what appears to be computer circuits, but upon closer examination could also be a representative map image of any suburb. Move the mouse around and areas of the picture pulsate, while a small box implores "connect with me." Click on one of the pulsing areas a pop-up opens in which the viewer is shown a series of short scenes, presumably fairly everyday occurences, from the lives of surburbanites. The events portrayed range from banal (doing laundry) to a bit bizarre (a red alligator repeatedly, yet harmlessly, attacks the leg of a baby drinking a bottle). Two on screen characters, just outside the frame of action, silently stand motionless and watch these events unfold.
The work is much like suburban life: generally benign but tinged with an everpresent sense of isolation. It speaks not only to society in general, but to our increasingly mediated forms of communication. The analogy between computer circuits and a suburban environment is apt. Increasingly, people turn to the Internet in search of human connection, but how much can we mediate reality and without losing the part that is real?
No comments:
Post a Comment