Until the End of the World
About
Until the End of the World (2017) is a moving image work of dark spectacle. Beginning with a 3D rendering of a naked woman, reclining and staring into the screen of a small handheld device, I lay bare my references to two seminal images from the history of computer graphics and speculative fiction film, Harmon and Knowlton's “Computer Nude: Studies in Perception I" (1967) and Wim Wender's “Until the End of the World” (1991). Through various avatars and personae I provide a cyberfeminist perspective on themes of selfhood, intelligence and post-humanity in the Age of the Anthropocene. Lyrics from “In the Year 2525” by Zager and Evans, a 1968 pop song about our over-dependence on technology, are spoken by synthesized computer voices throughout “Until the End of the World,” setting what I refer to as an “aPOPalyptic” tone to the work. Until the End of the World premiered at DAM Gallery, Berlin in November of 2017. The work connects and amplifies narrative components threaded throughout my project The Selfie Drawings.
