On the Body

As an introductory assignment I paired with the "I agree" project. My main contribution was to textualize the concept and the voiceover.

Concept

We live in a digital era in which it is nearly impossible to stay anonymous. The digital world contains so many recources that are directly available. Especially the fact that the accessibility takes so little time is quite convenient. When a service has a large amount of users, it creates a feeling that the service can be used safely, and makes an individual blindly trust it.

The desire to use a popular service as fast as possible in today’s time spirit, results in skipping to read the services’ terms and conditions. Besides, what harm can pressing ‘I agree’ actually cause? Somewhere in these conditions you will be protected, one would think. Somewhere in the back of your mind you know a few negative scenarios that have happened to a few unknown people. But in comparison to the fact that so many people use these services it would never happen to you. But should you really expose so much of your body, your identity, your brains, to the eyes of the whole world?

The digital network and the amount of (personal) data is growing to extends we can not even imagine. And because of this unimaginable factor the awareness of our digital footprint we leave behind for eternity fades away.

With the project of ‘I agree’ we want to raise awareness about this phenomenon of blindly accepting the terms and conditions of these services, and possible consequences

Voiceover

Before you are able use 'I agree' you have to agree to the terms and conditions.

Have you read the terms of use? No. Have you accepted them? Yes. You probably have never thought about the possible consequences of signing a contract which you have not read. Although millions of people do it everyday, by pressing ‘I Agree’ at the end of every pop up screen of terms of and conditions you come across. Thank you for letting us confiscate your personal freedom. By blindly accepting the terms and conditions, you have officially lost control over your rights regarding the service you are using. From this moment, your personal data are now under copyright of I agree, or any other service you agreed to use. Congratulations, you have now exposed yourself to the whole world (wide web) to see. Your identity is now forever stored on the web. Your online ID will forever be accessible for the eyes of everyone.

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[Photo's week 2]

(In)human Factors

Stretching Bending

A short film showing in the context of inhuman factors

4 Videos
For the 10 second-videos we recorded 4 different yogaposes. We stretched it further in after effects to the point where it becomes inhuman.

yoga pose 1 - https://youtu.be/WgFzPLByGYE

yoga pose 2 - https://youtu.be/k123sUIBNk0

yoga pose 3 - https://youtu.be/guqI5-AuKsI

yoga pose 4 - https://youtu.be/CegI04qY9Ts

Final video
For the final video we filmed a sequence, a series of poses, and again edited them in after effects. To alienate this video even more, we turned the video in black & white, and inverted the colors. The sounds were recorded in logic x pro to put emphasis on the inhumanity of the movements. (To view the video press the link above the thumbnail)

Yoga sequence black & white negative - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOdf-jYyiho

Mind (of) the Machine

For this project I gathered 100 images of monsters. .....................

A very common phenomenon of the human brain occurred when I was looking at the result of the algorithm: Pareidolia. Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon where the brain responds to an image or a sound, creating a familiar image or pattern while there is not one present in the stimulus. Although the mind of the machine and that of a human are very similar in a kind of approach, this phenomenon is not (yet) to be learned by machines yet and also is very personal. I thought it was a very interesting process; that a computer altered these data so much that they're not recognizable anymore, my human mind created new distinguishable images all over.

So I cut out a few of the occurring images, printed them and drew my pareidolia over them.