“The more you consume the less you live”
Guy Debord
Welcome to The Show. This is an AI video series where traditional boundaries of form and identity dissolve. A multi-sensory experience that challenges conventional understandings of performance, reality, consumerism and the self. Drenched in a medley of visual textures and an experimental soundscape throwing off viewers from their usual frames of reference. Channeling the disquiet of Guy Debord's 'spectacle', the collection serves a dual purpose: it's a disorienting visual feast and an invitation to question the mediated illusions that cloud our perceptions of reality. The shape-shifting, morphing AI aesthetics turns into a soul-searching frequency, as if both the medium and the content can’t decide on a fixed form.
“Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever. Apprehended in a partial way, reality unfolds in a new generality as a pseudo-world apart, solely as an object of contemplation.”
Guy Debord (Society of the Spectacle, 1967)
“Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.”
Guy Debord (Society of the Spectacle, 1967)
“The spectacle grasped in its totality is both the result and the project of the existing mode of production. It is not a supplement to the real world, an additional decoration. It is the heart of the unrealism of the real society.”
Guy Debord (Society of the Spectacle, 1967)
“The spectacle presents itself as a vast inaccessible reality that can never be questioned.”
Guy Debord (Society of the Spectacle, 1967)
“The spectacle is a social relation between people that is mediated by an accumulation of images that serve to alienate us from a genuinely lived life. The image is thus an historical mutation of the form of commodity fetishism.”
Guy Debord (Society of the Spectacle, 1967)
“The spectacle is the ruling order's nonstop discourse about itself, its never-ending monologue of self-praise.”
Guy Debord (Society of the Spectacle, 1967)
“What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.”
Guy Debord (Society of the Spectacle, 1967)
“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.”
Guy Debord (Society of the Spectacle, 1967).
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