ECOTONE

In this network installation, a 3D landscape is generated by messages grabbed from Twitter and read by computer voices sharing wishes such as, “I’d really love to…”, “I’m dreaming of…” A camera constantly roves this artificial paradise. Excerpts from the context and codes of a social network, these personal and at times intimate thoughts appear as an involuntary collective narrative where wanting a lover converges with wanting new running shoes. A deceptively addictive world emerges, both for Web users, whose desire is the most potent motive for participation, and for spectators observing the constant stream of strangers’ lives. Through the device of these phrases tossed into the flotsam like messages in bottles and already dehumanized by synthesized voices, the work addresses notions such as permanent visibility and the trail of our existence exposed on the Web.

Programming and artistic collaboration: Olivier Guillerminet

Prod: Lux Scène nationale de Valence, residency at Synesthésie with the support of Dicréam, the Fonds Scan Rhône Alpes and the Drac Île-de-France