Video and Animation
2023
Still image from screening at the Comfort Station in Chicago, 2024.
It’s not like we can escape technology. We have to live with it, whether we understand it or not. I have lived a relatively long time, and it amazes me to think how much I currently depend on technology that didn’t exist even a short while ago. Sometimes I can barely remember what it was like before, with land lines, paper maps, and no internet.
Is my brain changing? I hope so.
My body has been enhanced by technology. I am vaguely bionic. I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be alive without some fairly recent technological advances. So that tech? It’s okay.
The other tech though – the stuff that feels like it’s reaching inside our brains and scooping out the best parts for itself – I don’t know what to do with that. I’m not sure how to understand it.
All the Gifts is an acknowledgment of what I owe to tech, what I hope it might do, and what fear from it. It’s all bound together.