'lives in the ether' was a collaborative piece with Nicole Holbrook and Mollie Donegan as part of the 'Movement and Time' project. Our piece explores the relationship between virtual reality and physical reality, and the effect of these on memory. We focused on the prevalence of surveillance and the incessant recording and compiling of data in the digital age. The more we record, the less we remember, compiling information that is quickly forgotten or never seen at all, outsourcing our realities to an external hard drive. In a voyeuristic way the video captures fractured moments of people's everyday lives, moments on the verge of being forgotten. The video was presented at the screening as seen below, within the confined borders of a decaying leaf. The leaves represent natural decay and forgetting, like digital media, they are omnipresent and transient, but unlike digital media where forgotten files continue to consume resources, the leaves fall to the ground and enter a circle of growth. The full video can only be accessed through the QR code on the leaves on the floor of the installation. As the leaves decay over time the video becomes inaccessible and exists only in the ether, representing how virtual reality becomes untethered from physical reality.

stills from the full video