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Human Cellphone

Project type

one channel video art

Date

2017

Location

Tel Aviv, Israel

In the film, the artist touches his body with a smartphone, while the phone's camera works, and as the artist gets undressed, the camera continues to film his body, and a purple line appears on the screen wherever the phone is touching him. The soundtrack is based on a grammar audio lesson, which was edited into a music composition, which gives a spiritual bizarre feeling. The phone tries to give the hyper-realistic reality that today's standard smartphone seems to give us all over the world. As cubism tried to show larger parts of objects, the phones gave us opportunities to investigate our surroundings. Like one can know information about the world only by using a portable phone and the internet, phone cameras can map the human body by touching it. The touch of the phone on the human body as we experience it today and as this film shows, is almost sexual. We are sexually touching our phone and therefore we doing fetishistic acts toward it. This fetishism that is exhibited can maybe explain why smartphones are so associated with consumerism.

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