STATEMENT - Web Manifesto -

My website is an exploration of the concept of personal security online – the identity of the individual. The internet is a psychological and socio-psychologically phenomena that is infiltrating our lives. Technology and the computer interface are carving out a sub-culture in the fabric of society – one that has its own etiquette, sects, restrictions and perversions.

Modern computing offers a paradoxical social schema – one that offers an unlimited and immediate experience that is most personal because it is entirely self directed and largely uncensored – the flip side is that sensitive and insecure material can be tracked and monitored (expenditure, downloads, credit card details and passwords). The entire system is always at war – the threat of ‘viruses’ are like macro-environmental forces in this fragile environment.

Computers – are run on bits and bytes – electrical pulses. Everything about the system is intangible and ‘unstable’ – I can think of nothing less secure.

This is the spiel about computers in general – I focused specifically on identity and representing it visually! The precarious and fragile nature of identity = ‘missing persons’; the fickle nature of judgments ‘line up’ – repeated with subtle explanations of their ‘stories’ – one is wanted by the FBI – the other three are ‘missing’!!

Identity is limited in the black and white world of online communication. Interfaces that encapsulate people into categories and the lack of emotive expression may be symptomatic for future generational neurosis (I am hypothesizing here). I look upon it with humour and jest and suggest people do not get too attached to the ‘façade’ that the computer provides. It is as fragile and as tangible as the electricity that pulses through the system – powerful but short lived!