Teej Orloski Video + Sound Thesis Fall 2019

Our Heart in the Cloud

Our Heart in the Cloud, is an experiment in site specific, audiovisual installation that imagines a future where the line between the technosphere and the biosphere is ambiguous. Through an archive of rasterized, unquantized heartbeats, and digitally simulated 3D growth systems, a creature of design fiction is brought to life—its presence, a call to meditate on the coming collapse of virtual reality and physical space. The implicatications of this reconciliation are myriad, but this project isn’t a diatribe against any social change or technological progress associated with it. Rather, the work reflects on a question that Robrecht VanDerbeeken puts forth in his essay, Web Video and the Screen as a Mediator and Generator of Reality, “What do we take as real nowadays?”

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Fall 2019