The Offline Feed

'The Offline Feed' interrogates the growing dissonance between our digital lives and our innate need for physical, natural experiences. Inspired by the social media trend of ‘Life Hacks,’ this work critiques the paradox of using technology to mediate our engagement with the world—a contradiction especially evident in the proliferation of apps designed to reduce screen time.

By imagining a life hack that transforms human heads into bird feeders, this piece explores the absurdity of attempting to reconcile our need for nature within increasingly digital confines. The human head, derived from a 3D scan of my partner, serves as a symbol of the individual caught between these two worlds. Surrounded by elements of indoor life, it underscores the tension between our constructed environments and the organic world we long to reconnect with.

The use of video-to-video animated diffusion in ComfyUI further abstracts the subject, creating iterations that increasingly distance the work from its original form. This process reflects the progressive detachment from our physical realities as we become more enmeshed in digital environments, questioning whether our attempts to integrate nature into our tech-driven lives are ultimately futile.

In this series, the bird feeder head becomes a metaphor for our fragmented existence—simultaneously rooted in the physical world and yet increasingly alienated from it by the very tools meant to connect us.