Event Horizon
Looking past traditional cinema into avenues of visual media and other light-related phenomena across the online landscape—and beyond.
Much of the current deepfake hysteria stems not from questions of consent, but from fears about election manipulation. It has never been as easy to undercut the “truth” of filmed reality, but verifying truth in image-making was never so straightforward.
Its creative interactivity distinguishes TikTok from image-based social networks like Instagram, and also explains its dominance as a short-form video app, a larger trend in China.
Ulman has described herself as an artist “based in airports”: functional travel hubs with a navigable universality, regardless of their actual location.
New logistical work-arounds sought to overcome the difficulties of physically congregating; each decision about tone could trigger dozens of questions. Are the problems we are experiencing self-contained within the pandemic, or perennial?
"A radically new way to watch story and interact with story" conceals the true subversion out there.
This is a contemporary American hellscape, but if Chaplin and Tati were socially aloof within environments of cold modernity, O’Malley’s outcasts can barely communicate as they navigate a world corroded by mediation.