Modern Panopticon — Performance Action Video
0b110010100 is a short-form moving image piece produced as supplement to the other outcomes of the fashion-concept brief. It aims to demonstrate the garments’ form and utility via a ‘performance action’, exploring it’s functionality and wear in the 4 context-appropriate locations previously mentioned to construct a broader narrative of socio-technological agency within the framing of personal privacy and surveillance culture.
The title is a binary hieroglyph that translates as the numerical code ‘404’; a familiar computational term that refers to the termination of a systems’ flow — ‘Error’. It intends to nod to the obstructive impact that the nuances of techno-culture have on human progress, simultaneously mirroring both the ambiguity and universality of digital information as it bleeds into every aspect of our interfacing with the world.
Stylistic considerations, via the use of an old Sony Handheld VX camera (in its day used for mobile reporting and journalism), work to emulate the visual language and idiosyncrasies of surveillance footage (4:3 aspect ratio, low quality/pixellation, motion blur), and draw upon the practice of citizen/guerrilla journalism; a radical and democratic approach to media/knowledge production in the public domain.
Using Boards of Canada’s Reach For The Dead for its distinct electronic and mechanical yet mystical sound-scape; a combination of seemingly digitalised yet natural-feeling sonic abstractions that fuse with the principles embedded in the project.