I LICK I CLICK I BITE I SPIT
2021
Type:
4 channel (interactive) video installation, performance, tool
Lenght:
multiple loops
With:
Alex Foradori, Erik Campanini, Matúš Solčány
Exhibited at:
Exhibited at: Dutch Design Week 2021 (Beursgebouw);
Dutch Design Week 2021 (Embassy of Safety); ‘ITALY: A New Collective landscape’, at Adi Design Museum and Hong Kong Institute
Featured in:
‘The Autoethnographic Turn in Design’ edited Louise Schouwenberg and Michael Kaethler
Link (online media player):
Ilicibis.github.io
Metaphors of extraction and mining suggest that personal datasets are material resources and commodities, ready to be processed for profit. However, a person’s data is not a collection of impersonal numbers but a record of sensorial and emotional experiences.
Since data is seemingly pervasive, even if we can’t touch or see it, I give it visual and auditory qualities in a performative video installation. How can our attitude and treatment of data change if it isn't visualised as numbers?
The video is structured as database of short clips, where I perform different data metaphors (as a form of self-commodification), to expose the absurdities of data-driven systems and challenge the misleading metaphors in data discourses. By entering this metaphorical world and observing the contemporary shift in how we generate and disseminate knowledge, this project proposes a modular, deconstructed narrative with multiple paths.
Technical description: The video scenes are processed by a software that determines the final cut, creating different combinations of the same scenes to investigate semi-automated storytelling in relation to data sets. By randomising in real-time the selection and order of the scenes fed to the code, each screening is a uniquely generated clip, mirroring the dynamics of online filter bubbles, highlighting the selective and constraining nature of our online interactions.
︎︎︎ The project has been presented in various venues through different formats: as a 4 channel (interactive) video installation, as a performance, as a full lenght video, and as an online media player.
Since data is seemingly pervasive, even if we can’t touch or see it, I give it visual and auditory qualities in a performative video installation. How can our attitude and treatment of data change if it isn't visualised as numbers?
The video is structured as database of short clips, where I perform different data metaphors (as a form of self-commodification), to expose the absurdities of data-driven systems and challenge the misleading metaphors in data discourses. By entering this metaphorical world and observing the contemporary shift in how we generate and disseminate knowledge, this project proposes a modular, deconstructed narrative with multiple paths.
Technical description: The video scenes are processed by a software that determines the final cut, creating different combinations of the same scenes to investigate semi-automated storytelling in relation to data sets. By randomising in real-time the selection and order of the scenes fed to the code, each screening is a uniquely generated clip, mirroring the dynamics of online filter bubbles, highlighting the selective and constraining nature of our online interactions.
︎︎︎ The project has been presented in various venues through different formats: as a 4 channel (interactive) video installation, as a performance, as a full lenght video, and as an online media player.
