NFF Prof Talk - Boundaries of Being: Exploring alternative realities through AR and digital technologies
On Monday September 27, the Netherlands Film Festival, in collaboration with Noorderlicht, is organizing an online panel from Stadsschouwburg Utrecht about the increasing use of AR filters and other digital technologies and their influence on our identity and self-image. Curators Daniela Tenenbaum & Niv Fux will discuss this with three prominent artists who explore the use of AR filters and digital technologies to challenge our boundaries of being: Ines Alpha, Andy Picci and Marcela Baltarete. The artists present their work and share their insights in a discussion with the public.
“When you look at yourself in the mirror, does your image exist? Is that you or someone else? Do you exist only as yourself or, quite the opposite, do you have more than one existence?”
These questions posed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1977 seem today more relevant than ever. They render some of the long-debated intricacies that lie in the gap between image and representation, what is real and what is not, and, in particular, the relationship between the self-image and the way our image is perceived by others. Today, these issues are becoming further entangled through the ubiquitous presence of the digital image and the growing use of AR filters on social media.
As our dependency on digital interactions increases and our physical identity becomes almost overshadowed by the virtual one, we recognise great importance in critically looking at the societal, cultural and political implications arising from our reshaping digital self-image.
The wide use of AR filters, Snapchat Lenses, and 3D modeling, prompt an array of questions on self-representation, visual culture and current and future realities – what kind of new opportunities are introduced by these technologies, and what are the so-called risks? How would the way we perceive ourselves and others be transformed through this? And how would these technologies alter the future image?
With the participation of: Ines Alpha, Andy Picci & Marcela Baltarete.
Panel organisers and moderators: Daniela Tenenbaum & Niv Fux
A collaboration by Netherlands Film Festival & Noorderlicht
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>>> read the ESSAY by Daniela & Niv
>>> read the blog post by Daniela & Niv here