What makes you, ‘you’?
Our Future Selves by Random International presents viewers with their full-length reflection, three-dimensionally distributed as points of light. Although the image is reduced in resolution, enough detail remains to recognise human form.
Based on research on Cybernetics and our evolutionary instinct to perceive behaviour through motion, Random International began to experiment with simulating life in moving points of light, distilling details to a minimum.
The encounter evokes familiarity, mystery and an uncertain dance with our self image.
Be mesmerised at how the crucial details that make you “you” still shine through abstraction. Through distinct patterns of movement, Our Future Selves questions and ultimately redefines how we perceive ourselves in this ever-evolving digital age.
Extra Credits:
Studies of Apparent Behavior, Fritz Heider and Marianne Simmel, 1943
HD digital video from 16mm reversal film
Courtesy: Moving Image Research Collections, University of South Carolina (gift by Karl Heider)