The Internet of Things
Edinburgh College of Art, UK
2019
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The Internet of Things explores aspects of internet culture including memes,
viral phenomena, and stock photo aesthetics.
Throughout this body of work, I have been interested in translating digital images into physical space. How do you retain a sense of digital-ness when bringing flat pixels into the real lumpy world?
Here, I have brought my digital collages into an exhibition space. Although they are flat, they are layered - and in the translation of these digital images to physical works, they gain the kind of depth and dimensionality which can only be mimicked on a screen.
These collages represent a reality constructed by the internet. The images I remix are taken from Google, and some images are privileged by being top search-results. To give an example; a stock photo of an apple that I download is just one variation of what an apple may look like, but it is given authority in saying “this is what an apple is” by being a top search result on Google.
In this way, I think the internet can shape what we know of the world.
Throughout this body of work, I have been interested in translating digital images into physical space. How do you retain a sense of digital-ness when bringing flat pixels into the real lumpy world?
Here, I have brought my digital collages into an exhibition space. Although they are flat, they are layered - and in the translation of these digital images to physical works, they gain the kind of depth and dimensionality which can only be mimicked on a screen.
These collages represent a reality constructed by the internet. The images I remix are taken from Google, and some images are privileged by being top search-results. To give an example; a stock photo of an apple that I download is just one variation of what an apple may look like, but it is given authority in saying “this is what an apple is” by being a top search result on Google.
In this way, I think the internet can shape what we know of the world.