The Object of the Internet is a kinetic installation that evokes a mausoleum consecrated to the end of the web. A purely analog and mechanical mediascape acting as a virtual environment is created by the motion of the installation’s components. Inside the piece, the viewer’s reflection is dissected and blurred by the acceleration of a spinning mechanism and flickering lights, forcing the user to gaze into a perspectiveless abstract environment.
The Object of the Internet/Projet EVA – Etienne Grenier (CA), Simon Laroche (CA), Credits: Projet EVA
The Object of the Internet/Projet EVA – Etienne Grenier (CA), Simon Laroche (CA), Credits: Projet EVA
Visitors are thus projected in a dystopic near-future where the only remaining traces of their presence on the social networks are fleeting, artificially animated reflections of their self. Condemned to the status of sterile solipsisms, these vestigial selfies agitate in the distant void of the end of the Internet.
Project Credits:
- Projet EVA thanks the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for its financial support.
- Acknowledgements: Normand Gauthier, Raphaël Demers, Fablab du PEC, Nathalie Bachand, Eastern Bloc
Biography:
Since 2003, Projet EVA produces experimental artworks that explore the interwoven relationships between humans, their environment and technological systems. The collective focuses mainly on the subtractive effects of technology and media on the human experience, as well as on how the virtual world has permeated the urban and social landscape, encroaching on physical reality.
http://www.projet-eva.org
