To be is to be perceived.

Everybody has a voice, so why not share it? I just think the world needs change. Birds are so relatable. I think animals shouldn’t suffer because it’s wrong. Headphones on, world off! I love my phone and she loves me back, but sometimes I hate her.

Through romanticism, personification occurs. Realising something is better in turn triggers humanity to want that something to be like itself. Romanticism ultimately occurs through observation of the Other. The Other “is dissimilar to and the opposite of the Self, of Us, and yet of the Same” (wikipedia), that is to say that although the Other is not us, it gives the self meaning and reality, while ultimately being perceived through the lens of the self. The Other is only perceived through the lens of the self therefore it can only ever be a version of the self.

Alaine’s concept was best summarised by Robin: “A poetic, episodic and sometimes ironic meditation on our relationship with the technology we create to serve us.  Specifically, the mobile device.  Our strange and irrational tendency to anthropomorphise, infantilise, love and despise. And the parallels in our understanding and treatment of all else that is “inhuman”.”

I don’t feel like this project is totally a critique of our relationship with the digital world. I also don’t think it tries to present itself as something important. Rather, these ‘moments’ that we present are asking us to think more and to be better. And that’s an idea that drew myself to this project.