Just remembered digital picture frames are now a thing, not sure if many people actually use them, but it's fascinating really. Are people no longer printing photographs? Everything seems to be going from tangible, physical objects to things that only exist 'in the cloud' and as data.
Possibly:
Exhibiting final animations as if they were still images.
-wall mounted iPads
-digital picture frames
-screens
This reflects the way memories and experiences is now viewed, saved, remembered through screens.
Questioning life though a screen. Only remembering certain things, self mediation, the digital self.
The content of the gifs are people still, frozen, observed by the technology they are using, separated from their surrounding world that continues to move. The gifs loop to represent the unending nature, the scroll of the continuous Internet, no end no middle and no beginning.
They're unaware of their surroundings, the technology lives as they are static.
Photographs as a captured moment in time, the people are photographs amiungsy the constructed reality around them. Everything appears to be 'normal' and reality, but as the viewer looks closer and realises the still against moving looped world the illusion is broken, leaving them questioning what world the subject is in. Is it reality? Is it surreal? Is it digital?
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