Boundaries are a form of definition.
To blur a boundary is to confuse a definition.
To move a boundary is to make a new definition.
The images in the everyday futurisms series reveal a hidden and alternative potentiality inside of our relationship to modern technology, while simultaneously encouraging a reflection of the personal, ethical, social, and spiritual dimensions to this dynamic. In this vein, the work is as much a reimagining of the form and function of the always-on digital infrastructure at play as it is a chance to revisit individual intentionality and possible futures within this relationship.
While the imagery itself is literally composed of HTML and CSS objects, through their algorithmically generative transformation these visualizations function as abstract color fields or Rorschach tests. This seductive (re)presentation of the www asks you to look inward as much as it does into the digital world. What is your relationship to the internet, to screens and the digital world? Numerous studies suggest N. Americans spend approximately 12 hours per day online – are you constantly online? Are you finding meaning and fulfillment online? Purpose? Moreover, how do you engage with the ethical quandaries, societal implications, and philosophical questions which arise from our increasingly mediated lifestyle? Are you okay with being a product? Are you accepting of surveillance capitalism, of your attention being hijacked? Are you complicit? Are you willingly trading privacy for convenience? You can surely survive without modern technology, but can you thrive – how does it determine y/our lives? What do you see here, beyond vaguely recognizable inboxes, search fields, and comment boxes?
Via intervention into the normative operation of the www, and resulting imagery, a meditative pause in our relationship to technology is created The contemplative space created allows the viewer to sit in sustained consideration. Via the slow fluidity from one image into another, the video presentation conveys an alluring, yet hopeful, urgency to revisit and redefine the above questions and our role within this system. To consider that a multitude of possibilities exist in terms of the form and functions at play. By moving the boundary of what the legible internet is, Carruth is forecasting potential, possibility, and optimism in building new imaginative capacities.
