Sense of Impending Doom
During the Victorian era new technology was received with suspicion and caution. Technological advancements like photography were often given “magical” or “supernatural” attributes. These strange new devices generated a different type of social anxiety about the rapid modernisation of daily life. Since then we as a society have embraced technology and all the conveniences it brings us. All our daily tasks collated and completed on small devices in our pockets.
This body of work is a parody of the artist’s experience of trying to obtain information in a ‘post-truth’ era. An era where opinions are dressed up as facts and disseminated online through blogs, vlogs, Youtube tutorials and social media outlets. It is now growing ever harder to decipher what is fact and fiction.
Drawing influence from E.M Forster’s “The Machine Stops”, Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” and the Theatre of the Absurd the work challenges the idea of fact vs fiction in an era where the lines are becoming further more blurred.
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Produced with the generous support of Trotec Lasers and Joe Furlong Carpentry
