Bridge Kids: The technological reincarnation of Julia Denzig .

摘要

"A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction." -Donna Haraway In this age of ubiquitous cyborgs, avatars and virtual personas, artists are returning to science fiction metaphors, the hyper-real and the absurd to investigate the impact of technology and the virtual on the human body and environment. Are we headed for a technocratic future, filled with bureaucracy and endless virtual information? Or could our development with technology result in a mutualism, forming a stronger union with the natural, the spiritual and the supernatural? This media project is a meditation on this complex terrain, a portal through which to explore the tension between science ('the real') and the imaginary ('the virtual').Bridge Kids is a 16min single channel video work that connects a research documentary on the history of ESP, a fictional dramatic television series, and a science fiction drama portraying an adolescent's technological reincarnation. A meditation and absurd collage of media, found footage and staged drama juxtaposing complex human relations with ESP, pedagogy, instability and sci-fi cliche creates a fragmented narrative of two kids' escape from networks and institution. The video metaphorically depicts humans interfacing with technology, the virtual, creating a psychic space.