*digital imagery, created using 3D scanning/photogrammetry software
The “Cyborg Identity: Prototype 3.0” series consists of three digitalized versions of the artist’s head created using 3D face scanning technology. By showing only a vague, incomplete and distorted image, they visualize the haunting feelings connected to the pressure of being exposed to and inevitably perceived by others, of constantly having to perform for an invisible audience, that are naturally being evoked as a subject of digital prey existing within the cyberspace and actively engaging with online communities. These artificial self-portraits, further obscured to complete anonymity under the influence of pixelation, fractured wireframes and software errors, are equivalent to the curated, fragmentary versions of ourselves we typically present on the Internet while simultaneously aiming to create an impression of authenticity: A contemporary phenomenon seemingly making it possible for others to produce a genuine reflection of any person’s true identity on the basis of their digital footprint while actually revealing not a purely physical being, but a partially imagined, virtually generated model uniquely morphed by individual expectations and projected subjectivity, a shallow construction lacking any actual substance.
(2025)