The Attention-Sucking Power
of Digital Technology
Displayed Through Photography
Soul Sucking by Antoine Geiger
by Kate Sierzputowski on November 11, 2015
Making eye contact, a once unavoidable feat when packed into a
crowded train car or museum, is now a nearly impossible mission as those
around you are almost guaranteed to be sucked into their phone’s screen
while scrolling through Facebook or killing digital zombies.
Our
increasing dependence on the information devices constantly stuck to our
hands was the inspiration for artist Antoine Geiger’s series SUR-FAKE, a group of digitally altered photographs depicting random people being sucked into the screens of their phones.
The images show children, businessmen, and tourists with their faces
completely lost, the forms stretched like taffy into the portals we use
for selfies, email communication, and mindless gaming.
The blur imposed
by Photoshop completely masks any emotion once seen on the subject’s
face, rendering each a personality-less drone. With this altering of the
body the artist explains that the project is “placing the screen as an
object of ‘mass subculture,’ alienating the relation to our own body,
and more generally to the physical world.”
All images courtesy Antoine
Geiger
(via This Isn’t Happiness)
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