"Earth Song is a loose collection of out of context moments and abstracted feelings all smothered in pixelation and compression with an original musical score and sound design by me (Jake Williams). It is inspired by the fact that through digital screens I have been, in a hyperreal sense, all over the Earth and seen the worst and the best of it. And through this technological window, one is simultaneously isolated to a maleable internal reality and connected to the whole planet’s stream of information through a self feeding, self walling algorithm. And with the dominance of new short form content like TikTok and Reels, we are pulled through these momentary portals away from reality, which then breed in the mind to create a larger reality untethered to the purely physical.
I like to think of this as a new form of aesthetic language to explore and play with, as I feel scrolling through the video shorts algorithm is highly revealing as to the phsyicic condition of both the individual’s specific algorithm and the entire planet. A digital unconscious. That is the inspiration for this hodgepodge video piece, a surreal exploration of the lines between the digital and the real in a collage-style series of memories and moments strung together like a dream."
Opening evening this Friday 27th September from 5pm - all welcome (18+ content advisory)
Jake Williams is an artist and recent University of Lincoln graduate of BA Fine Art.
