NOSTALGIA 2.0 (2021)

Digital HD video without sound 11 min and 20 sec
Documentation of NOSTALGIA 2.0being presented on ‘Icarus_Blue’ including the soundtrack and 3D render (19min and 20 sec in duration).
Sound - Gyorgy Ono, Visual renders - Vytautas Niedvaras

Nostalgia 2.0 is presented as a fictional nonlinear monologue of a digital omnipresent entity, spoken from the future (let’s call him ALEX for the sake of identification).
His speech is addressed to the unidentified human user in 2020-2021. Throughout the text, ALEX challenges the significance of human actions and experiences, as well as the over-prescription of digital records. He also questions ideas of futurity, memory, significance and internalised human exceptionalism. Other aspects of the video are compiled from augmented digital recordings and other animated fragments that mimic attempts to digitally transcend the experience of banal reality. Visually it follows the experience of Pareidolia and tendencies for spotting patterns in random stimuli.

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