Enjoying reflective shiny things…
For a while now I’ve been loving reflections and distortions – water acting like a mirror, mirrors acting like water. The pliable bendy nature of light and they way it distorts and transform the world around me (and sometimes me too) seems to speak to me about the materiality of the digital. I think it is to do with the corruption of information in the reflected image acting as a personal metaphor for the digital object. In particular I am thinking of Hito Steyerl’s concept of the degraded image – the pixelated surface a product of it’s process of exchange and resizing within the digital world. Like most urban centres (maybe more than most?) Tokyo is happily full of shiny reflective things. Here’s a short video I shot late last night somewhere in by Shibuya Station. I seem to be hanging out there a lot… Reflective surfaces will be making an entrance in a performance piece I think so this video essentially constitutes some outloud thinking.
