ON
SCREEN – 2025
My video, "J7," selected for ON SCREEN 2025, is now
available to stream:
ON
SCREEN – Season 5
Residual Data / Future
Hauntologies
https://www.goes-art.com/onscreen-season05
Residual
Data / Future Hauntologies
The
final chapter of ON SCREEN arrives as its most spectral and
philosophical season. A meditation on what lingers and what is to
come — a journey into the shadows of digital culture, where traces,
ghosts, and memories persist long after their intended use has faded.Future
Hauntologies reveal the uncanny ways tomorrow already inhabits today.
In the age of predictive algorithms and generative systems, the
future haunts us as both promise and threat, as utopia deferred and
dystopia rehearsed.Together,
the works of Season 05 unfold as a philosophical cartography of
spectral landscapes. They traverse ruins of data, haunted
architectures, and uncanny temporalities — asking what it means to
live among ghosts of information, and how we inhabit a world where
memory is encoded and the future arrives as haunting rather than hope
J.7
/ 2024 / 2:03 min.
In
a world where simulations that are often hollow, superficial and
falsified replace reality, the line between useful and useless
becomes blurred. Uselessness reveals the constructed nature of
perceptions and causes us to rethink what we believe to be real or
valuable. [...] Longing for uselessness and emptiness is not about
striving for uselessness. Rather, it is about finding meaning in the
seemingly impractical through creativity, criticism and insight.
Think of uselessness and emptiness as energy. When desire is free
from the constraints of usefulness, it becomes a force that drives us
to new ideas and expressions, showing us that the useless has its own
productivity.
