I will never leave you
Installation
2 smartphones head set, live stream video into Second Life, 2017
Being addicted to the online virtual world of @Second Life forces individuals to make the difficult final click. A passive and almost banal motion in our reality, but one that carrieswith it the weight of “killing” an avatar in the alternate. This digital form has become an extension of the individual, laying pixels over their dreams and ambition. Yet, the avatar is also just an innocent. A creature completely dependant on the processor. While not logged in, the possessor can feel guiltyfor abandoning their virtual self. They feel as if they are its only hope. Without them, it is there alone, incapable of movement.
But what if we change the relationship from complete dependancy to equality? What if the avatar has the power to look into our lives, just as we have been looking at its? Whatwill become of ourselves? I will never leave you is a live stream video installation in which the avatar gets thepossibility to experience our reality. Doing so can reveal the fluidity of the relationship between the two. It poses questions about the hierarchy between creatures, “real” or not. While also referring to the undeniable fact that the virtual is always observing us anyway.
Project created at Design Academy Eindhoven
by @jagoda_fryca
