Emma Bexell (SE)

Let’s make your smartphone less familiar. Let’s look at it as a site for drama. Screens offer us means of expression and connection, responding to our needs and desires. They are also designed to conceal the deep material violence that makes them possible. How can we use the smartphones we have in our hands to show this hidden life? In this class Emma Bexell shares her practice of site specific “video walks” and introduces them as a way to playfully and critically use the technology to perform the struggle with technology.
Together we create a work for the location we are at, using only our own smart phones.

Let’s make your smartphone less familiar. Let’s look at it as a site for drama. Screens offer us means of expression and connection, responding to our needs and desires. They are also designed to conceal the deep material violence that makes them possible. How can we use the smartphones we have in our hands to show this hidden life? In this class Emma Bexell shares her practice of site specific “video walks” and introduces them as a way to playfully and critically use the technology to perform the struggle with technology.