We live, increasingly, in a digital world. This now utterly banal observation may have seemed like science fiction a quarter century ago. Where will we be in another quarter century? It seems like as good a moment as any to take an ethnographic look at the present moment, poised between the real and virtual, on the edge of the Singularity. Here are the detritus of simulated lives and endless digital reproduction: dystopian advertising models, electronic identities, inescapable interconnectivity, enslaving conveniences, and entire collapsed utopian online societies. And yet, the digital world also offers many solutions: egalitarian avenues of communication, artificial intelligence, and pure information, wherever and however we need it. We neither desire nor are able to disconnect, to go back, so digital self-reflection may be essential to finding our collective (interconnected) way forward.
"Not the ghost in the machine, but the body in the medium is the central dilemma of modern communications…" – John Durham Peters The World : In a possible near future, where quantifying of the self is taken to its logical extreme, every person has their own "supermetric". This is an inf
Adopting the form of a video game trailer, Immunecraft presents a fictional game which gives users agency over a real life cell culture to compete against opponent players. It explores the parallels between popular gameplay mechanics and some of the most important principles of the human immune syst
Shapeless, infinite and abstract. Limitless and intangible. It's everywhere. It's The Cloud. Anne Milne is a BAFTA award-winning Scottish filmmaker. Her film María's Way was nominated for the European Film Award 2010, and won several awards while playing at numerous international film festiva
From the infinitely small to the infinitely large, all things in the universe are tightly connected : they interact and restructure in a combination of movements and perpetual metamorphoses. Drawing on paper, indian ink and watercolor, 2D Computer. Some 2300 originals drawings, from 21 x 30 to 60 x
'Feedback' : A series of short, sharp reactions to how the digital age is affecting the way we judge each other. This film reflects on a world, that perhaps, increasingly represents who we are through virtual statistics. In an age that has undergone ground-breaking digital changes, it seems almost i
Khatchig's on a quest to find the fundamental nature of reality but he'll have to overcome a system that has snubbed him, hostile hostel residents, and some really strong mushrooms. Will Khatchig uncover the secrets of our universe before he loses his home, his friends, and his sanity? Will anybody
A parodic infomercial offers unsatisfactory freedoms via the latest in technology.
Simulados is the story of a hunter-gatherer from 12000 years ago trying to survive in one of the most extreme climates in the world. In this journey we'll learn how computer simulations help us understand the workings of our societies, and how they might help us face the consequences of complex chal
Screens become bigger and thinner, networks become faster and wider. Humanity connects at the rythm of technological progress. It looks upon a world forged by images and sounds shared by millions of people. BLIND looks at this world through the eyes of those who create it .
Fumiya Island depicts a robotics research laboratory as a newly discovered island in an archipelago of robotic research labs constituting the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich. The indigenous creatures occupying Fumiya Island as its fauna are quadruped robots developed by rese
Lost in an increasingly digital existence, a happy mother attempts to download her child.
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To watch this film, visit Sloan Science & Film . THE KING'S PAWN follows a former chess prodigy who challenges the world-champion with a super computer he spent his life designing. With so much media attention and such high stakes surrounding the event, is it possible that someone from the computer'
In 1562, Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder completed a painting called The Triumph Of Death. In this panoramic landscape the sky is blotted out by black smoke; ships and dead fish litter the ocean shore; and an army of skeletons experiment with myriad death techniques. The living are badly out
By sourcing multiple digital images of the same place from different archives, this experiment in film makes use of frame by frame montage to discover hidden forms, patterns and references thereby giving new meaning to the prevailing redundancy of these pictures.
'Utopia 1.0: Post-Neo-Futurist-Capitalism in 3D!' is a twenty-minute expedition through a largely abandoned virtual 3D world known as Second Life in search of utopia. It is an absurd idea, as the title suggests. There is no such thing as post-neo-futurist-capitalism just as there is no such thing as
Humans have been our parents, our shepherds, and finally our obsolete children. Who are we? With the voice of Eliza Tolan More about the film at letexier.org Film is also available for streaming here .