As Melbourne cycled through five lockdowns, I collated digital ephemera in isolation: skylines / screengrabs / sound bites. I documented myself too: Zoom meetings / contrived selfies / maudlin portraits in the mirror like this one. I circled back to this image recently and started chopping and slicing, each cut an edit in a seemingly endless loop.
The work examines screen culture and notions of truth in the time of automation and climate crisis at the turn of the decade. :: Truth, lies and screen time in the city :: A glimpse of the ambiguous and the synthetic - post-truth image making on the network :: Improbable cyborgs meet CGI models and cheeky chat bots :: Tweets, clowns and avatars burning red, green and blue :: Meanwhile, the city shimmers and the pixels blink as the robot in the garden downloads an update and ... waits.