Tuesday, January 29, 2013
From infancy and before the child of the New Millennium is watched by inhuman eyes. Their parents record their every move, photograph them constantly, take videos daily, always sharing and remembering their child using artificial lenses as their medium and memories. What is it to be that child? To be constantly conscious of being filmed and recorded, and not just by your loved ones? My life sort of rides that wave, i live in that world kinda. More than any generation before mine. But i would like to explore the extremity of it. The Facebook Poster Child. The Face Seeing Its Face. Would it make you self-conscious (in a new way, perhaps); how would you harmonize your awareness of your Inside when all you see is your Outside; how would it change your perception of time and memory (when all things are recorded, when is now?); how would eye contact, culturally and personally be perceived differently when most of it is made through digital devices and across great spaces; where would you hide when you needed to be alone? And editing? Real-time editing of so-called 'reality'-- the reality of your shared and stored memories could be manipulated by anyone. How would that influence our view of the past and how can we trust anything when anything can be changed or even generated artificially? All these questions have been bothering me lately. We are so blessed to be born into this age of plenty and opportunity but what is the price? And just how different is our lifestyle to those of our great-grandparents? One lonely brain can't know.
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