2/17/2023 0 Comments Hypercam 1![]() ![]() In 1980 Paul Virilio predicted that “vision of light moving on a screen would have replaced all personal movement.” 4 Forty years later, interfaces have become our new reality: the virtual as the “real but not actual, ideal but not abstract” 5 takes over. With half of the global population in lockdown, 2 concerns about surveillance capitalism 3 in the age of streaming have been momentarily pushed to one side. If shooting 1 characterized the past decade of internet culture, from selfies to Instagram, streaming has emerged as the protagonist of 2020s quarantine culture: a moment characterized not by the drive “to save the moment for later” but instead by spatially dislocated but “live” connections (as inflected by network latencies). Hypercam enacts a gesture of visual resistance to the squared-off talking heads that we have all become it converts the interface flatland into a multidimensional space of play. Once a bounded practice, a backup for otherwise face-to-face encounters, video conferencing became the normative mode of interaction for work meetings, friendships, education, love relationships and family gatherings on both the local and global scales. ![]() During the first months of 2020, human relationships turned virtual. ![]()
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