The User Agreement
Yaron Erkin
Intangibility, This is our condition. We are tangible, but our digital selves are not. As we move further online we are losing the importance of tangibility. As I become my Tinder bio, my Zoom screen, and my Facebook comments I (or my body rather) begin to disappear. Simultaneously as my emotions become more dictated by the digital boxes within which I exist, there is a reverse effect; these intangible spaces are pulled into reality. The flattened world is sucked into three dimensions. Existing in a digital space is interactive intangibility. How do you explain the third dimension to a second-dimensional being? How can I show myself who exists in my phone what it’s like to eat an orange, touch a flower, stub my toe?
My project interrogates intangibility within the space between digital and physical. The User Condition blends physical and digital objects and environments to create an ambiguous space which leads us to become vessels in this contradictory liminal space. Transitioning from one to another we are able to recognize and dissociate ourselves from the perceived limitations of tangibility. Presented through a website this state is shown through a collection of images and scans with the addition of a webcam to acknowledge the users interaction with this state.