Digitale Gespenster (Digital Ghost)
This video work, Digitale Gespenster (Digital Ghost), is
inspired by the professor of philosophy, Byungcheol Han!s
book, Transparenzgeselschaft. It suggests a question
about transparency and the reliability that the digital
information-oriented society creates.
As our society is digitized, the transparency of society and
information has become an important value - more than
ever.
People take information without doubt and make it
standardized because everyone can easily approach,
share, and digitize it.
They exhibit and open themselves in the name of
transparency.
However, is the transparency in digital society positive and
the steely truth as much as we think?
As a video installation work, Digitale Gespenster (Digital
Ghost) is divided into two parts. It shows one place and
incident through nine different angles and points of view
like a CCTV monitoring a scene. It seems like one incident
is shown in different angles, but it actually presents scenes
from different times. One may say that it is operated, but
nothing is.
There is no exquisite digital control but it is simply filmed in
different times. Audiences receive different awarenesses
and emotions through nine different scenes on one
screen. In so doing it delivers a message of how digital
information and society can be easily operated and
controlled.
This video work, Digitale Gespenster (Digital Ghost), is
inspired by the professor of philosophy, Byungcheol Han!s
book, Transparenzgeselschaft. It suggests a question
about transparency and the reliability that the digital
information-oriented society creates.
As our society is digitized, the transparency of society and
information has become an important value - more than
ever.
People take information without doubt and make it
standardized because everyone can easily approach,
share, and digitize it.
They exhibit and open themselves in the name of
transparency.
However, is the transparency in digital society positive and
the steely truth as much as we think?
As a video installation work, Digitale Gespenster (Digital
Ghost) is divided into two parts. It shows one place and
incident through nine different angles and points of view
like a CCTV monitoring a scene. It seems like one incident
is shown in different angles, but it actually presents scenes
from different times. One may say that it is operated, but
nothing is.
There is no exquisite digital control but it is simply filmed in
different times. Audiences receive different awarenesses
and emotions through nine different scenes on one
screen. In so doing it delivers a message of how digital
information and society can be easily operated and
controlled.