Me, Myself & I

Mobile App as Interface for Interactive Installations

Me, Myself & I questions egocentrism and narcissism as widespread contemporary phenomena and their most popular, in-famous declination: the selfie culture. The digital era emphasizes the individual, who are seen more and more at the center of society, rather than being part of it.
Selfishness and narcissism are widespread, as selfie culture shows: we send mini-me’s into the increasingly important virtual space of our society to make others aware of who we are and, most importantly, who we wish to be. Fiction, fantasies, exhibitionism, confessions, self-indulgent activities, solipsism motifs are the drivers behind our virtual life, with corporations and media shaping our (perceived) reality and exploiting recklessly our desires and fantasies, leading us further away from reality. The permanent representation of the lives of others also creates pressure to depict one’s own life, which becomes a design object, and strengthens the spiral of staging through selfies and body cult.
This is where Me, Myself & I steps in and offers us an opportunity to develop new states of perception. In the virtual environment, images and reality are perceived unmistakably and unambiguously as being mutually incompatible. This helps the participant to decouple externally constructed realities from their natural environment.

 

Me, Myself & I @Synthesis Gallery, Berlin

 

Me, Myself & I @Annka Kultys Gallery, London

 

Me, Myself & I @FILE, São Paulo

 

Mobile App
The participant floats virtually in a self-absorbed ego-relationship with himself above an urban, futurist cityscape that is continuously regenerated. Users see themselves rapidly projected into the virtual environment countless times, as another way to replicate over and over again his ego. The virtual environment would be entirely dominated by his ego as translated by the selfies the tablet would take, that is, by the many images of his that would populate the cityscape. The virtual environment would rotate as the participant rotates the device with the sky showing up if the tablet is moved upwards. By tilting it downwards the ground appears. At the same time, the flight direction is adjusted and the flight speed can be changed. The sound is composed for the app and reacts responsive to all these movements and navigation speeds.

In the exhibition space, the image can be displayed as two reflective projections on adjacent walls, offering a kaleidoscopic view of the urbanized cityscape full of egos. This emphasizes the impression of a superstar and allows other visitors to participate.

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You fly through magical worlds that are constantly being regenerated. Your individual photos appear continuously on building facades which are taken by you every second. If you don’t like a picture, replace it as you like. Can you fill all the facades of the entire world with selfies? This is how you reach the next level. Between each level your live video appears for a short time, projected a thousand times all over the world. It’s just you everywhere.