Human-Scaner 07.06.2020In this day and age, the presence of cameras (of any type: security camera, camera on objects we use) is a daily phenomenon. More specifically, during the quarantine we experienced more intensely the need to use a camera to perform our daily activities. Personal space has become shared and as mentioned in William Gibson's interview, we end up being physically alone without really being.
The recent university lectures we attended take place in a digital room, with non-physically existing subjects, assembled from many real spaces. The existence of this space forces the user who enters it to follow a specific process. To enter the "room" they sit in a certain place, in a certain way, press certain keys and are always dressed as if there is their physical presence in this digital space. All these procedures have a ritual nature, as they are done on a daily basis, in a specific way. Waking up, getting dressed, setting up a device, coffee, headphones, searching for a program, opening a program, finding the right "room", closing the microphone, pressing "join", attending a lesson. The use of the camera and the interaction through it as well as the existence of an entire room of people in the kitchen is becoming more and more normal. Respectively, the subjects of the video ignore the existence of scanning - monitoring as it is now part of their daily life. |