Elsewhere in Cultural Farming, I often broach visual notions of changing realities and identities - changing because our images, with their languages and grammars, are changing.
Second Life is an easy target for expressing these kinds of ruminations. But here instead, I try another tact. I decide to mash together audio from a TV documentary about adoption and adoptees seeking their forgotten(?) biological parents; with an eerily reminiscent video clip of a Second Life (machinima?) video.
In it, we witness our images begetting images in our image. And, in time, these undoubtedly will beget still more ‘offspring’ images.
Thus, this visual essay poses deeper questions: In our endlessly imagistic world what is image heredity? From what gene pool do we conceive our own representations? Will our images remember us? Will they seek out their history? Will they honor their parentage? Would they care even if we could somehow program them to? Time will tell.
The Ancient Masturbator 2008 (3:00)
