Come down and check it out!!
If you are far away and/or unable to make it to the gallery watch this amazing performance at:
ustream.com/channel/projectedintimacy
It will be at 7.30pm
closer, not close enough
A performance by Zoe Koke and molly o.
It's too easy, in this age, to forget that writing and speaking are technologies in themselves. Yet just as the written word and the spoken sentence have been modified by culture and circumstance to serve a specific purpose, so the various communications technologies of the past decade-- instant messaging, video chat, status updates- have begun to signify specific kinds of interactions. Does Skype make you feel closer to you friend because you can see their face, or farther away because it reminds you of the distance between you? We seek to re-imagine the space of the video chat by engaging each other from the smallest possible spaces in our homes, commemorating the flashlight-lit forts we made as children to share our stories. In exchanging our favorite texts and reworking the relationship between previous technologies, we hope to illuminate the possibility for intimacy in a medium typically regarded as a poor, yet necessary, substitute for physical interaction.
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