Exploration: Digital Futures
The final exhibition
Digital Futures - the film
We invite you to dive into the Digital Futures film, a collaboration between Lauren, Maud, Enam and Ava which explores the intricacies of living in a split reality online and offline, how one can hybridly live between spaces. Noting the sense of community found within trends, memes, and social dances. You are invited to reflect on the intricacies of our digital society, where the boundaries between online and offline merge.
We invite you to dive into the Digital Futures film, a collaboration between Lauren, Maud, Enam and Ava which explores the intricacies of living in a split reality online and offline, how one can hybridly live between spaces. Noting the sense of community found within trends, memes, and social dances. You are invited to reflect on the intricacies of our digital society, where the boundaries between online and offline merge.
Credits:
Director & Editor: Margo Roe
Cinematographer & Colour Grader: Bart Bazaz
Choreographer: Lauren Jenkins
Composer: Jimmy Adams
Performers:
Ava Majekodunmi
Enam Ganny
Maud Grant Summers
Director & Editor: Margo Roe
Cinematographer & Colour Grader: Bart Bazaz
Choreographer: Lauren Jenkins
Composer: Jimmy Adams
Performers:
Ava Majekodunmi
Enam Ganny
Maud Grant Summers
We would like to thank Laura Roe, Bart Bazaz and Jimmy Adams who generously supported the development of this film with their knowledge of film making, editing and sound design. This film would not have been possible without them.
Performance
Maud, Enam and Ava performed a short piece during the live event to prompt a conversation, which was inspired by the feedback gathered across the school community. Touching upon community, communication, and relationships both online and offline. Asking questions like - does technology have a direct correlation to development? What does it mean to be online at such an influencial age? What will community become with developments of the digital? The performance serves as a bridge to understanding the thoughts and emotions of this generation navigating the digital age and became important to understanding emotions and feelings around technology.The film below is the back drop for the performance with images below to give context.
Maud, Enam and Ava performed a short piece during the live event to prompt a conversation, which was inspired by the feedback gathered across the school community. Touching upon community, communication, and relationships both online and offline. Asking questions like - does technology have a direct correlation to development? What does it mean to be online at such an influencial age? What will community become with developments of the digital? The performance serves as a bridge to understanding the thoughts and emotions of this generation navigating the digital age and became important to understanding emotions and feelings around technology.The film below is the back drop for the performance with images below to give context.
Marco Valk - Starling Murmuration 2020 with voice over by Lauren Jenkins
The performance consisted of a film showing a murmuration of Starlings, and in front of the film a small table with an old push button phone placed upon it. Maud, Enam and Ava, take turns to sit at the table, looking at the phone as if waiting for a call. The unbearable wait, the passing of time shared as we watch them watching the phone. A tribute to past technologies, and the hours of waiting for connection to others through this old fashioned device. As the film plays out, it speeds up, there is more urgency, and this is shown through the rush to get to the table, pushing each other to hurry up. The need to be the person on the phone. We rarely have to wait anymore, we are always that person on that phone. A performative suggestion of the frantic pace of our contemporary digital lives. How do you consider this? The joy or the problem?
The Wide Web - An archive for the future
Built up of a web of connections across the school, this hanging structure repurposes wire hangers to hang students’ messages to their future selves, environments, friends and leaders. This wide web of messages acts as an archive for the future. With the fast pace of trends, memes and the everyday, the structure attempts to slow our consumption of information. The messages that hang within this web may take a little longer to decode and understand, in turn, increasing their privacy. This installation, welcomes you to reflect on the developments of techonolgy and your relationship with it - past, present and future.
Built up of a web of connections across the school, this hanging structure repurposes wire hangers to hang students’ messages to their future selves, environments, friends and leaders. This wide web of messages acts as an archive for the future. With the fast pace of trends, memes and the everyday, the structure attempts to slow our consumption of information. The messages that hang within this web may take a little longer to decode and understand, in turn, increasing their privacy. This installation, welcomes you to reflect on the developments of techonolgy and your relationship with it - past, present and future.
Overall this project wasn’t created to come to any conclusion but to open up a dialog around experience of technology and mindfulness when using it. We hope to have given a space to reflect on what technology means to the individual, how they interact with it and how our future generation can safely develop within this digital age. Aiming to not let technology be an extension of self but something other; a tool to connect, learn and indulge in.