A Headspace

By Lily Scherlis

Artwork: A Headspace

“Let’s use media to trespass on the divide between self and other. How can you make a body into a virtual

prosthesis able to calibrate, reconfigure, and displace the semi-permeable boundary between here and

there? If you try, you can form a mutually-fulfilling relationship with such an avatar. Can we reincarnate

ourselves in a way that blurs the line between you and me?





This body of work is dedicated to a piece of chromakey green fabric in my studio that constitutes an

interstice between the actual and the virtual. Over the course of this project, it was repeatedly subjected to

digital erasure in order to give these incarnations virtual homes.”



 



Video installation

1 foot 31 inches


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