year 14 A.I. *◦ ̊⁎when i upload myself t

'year 14 A.I. *◦ ̊⁎ when i upload myself to the cloud, i don’t feel any pain' is playfully analysing what living in a world of smart devices means to the subjective self, more than 10 years later after their introduction and viral spread.

the year is 14, 15, 26 A. I. (After Iphone), the advent of smart devices hailed by the introduction of the very first iphone – I am dependent on this device and feel amputated without. blackout. i am storing my past, my memories in moving images, texts and snippets of my

recent years in the cloud, encrypted and un- locked on my phone. i am storing my future on it, of which i know, in events and dates and a network growing closer and apart. the device doubles as my gate to my digital identity. my virtual me, gathering information on behalf of me and acting as an agent of my longing for networked identities and service of the infor- mational age.