Experimental Video

For my one-minute video, I focused on recording the screens of the platforms and websites we use most often to show how dependent we’ve become on the digital world. I kept the video almost entirely screen-based because so much of our attention now lives there. We check our phones constantly, scroll without thinking, and rely on these platforms for communication, information, and entertainment. Over time, this kind of use starts to feel automatic. It becomes easier to look at a screen than to look at what’s actually around us.

"In the name of "progress," our official culture is striving to force the new media to do the work of the old."

Using McLuhan’s idea about progress and media, I wanted the video to suggest that while technology is supposed to move us forward, it also pulls our focus away from our physical surroundings. I wanted to highlight how normalized this dependency has become. The digital world feels familiar and comfortable, something to relax to, but that comfort often comes at the cost of being present in real space and real time.