Unface - Harry Carter
Unface reckons with the ways in which we formulate and curate our identity in the digital age. The book focuses on the blurry intersection between physical and digital human presences, a labyrinth of referenced existences recurring through different forms of reality. The book posits the existence of a person whose self-conceptions are undone by their own images of themselves. Cascading in a social landscape in which our digital-selves perhaps have more notoriety, gravitas and more influence than us, what should we make of the dilemma that our digital images will never possess the authentic truth about the lives we live? Have we been rendered outsiders to our own flesh by our inhuman counterparts? A maze of disintegrating faces, but which are the authors? Perhaps all of them. Perhaps just as many are yours.
Published by Silver+
Unface reckons with the ways in which we formulate and curate our identity in the digital age. The book focuses on the blurry intersection between physical and digital human presences, a labyrinth of referenced existences recurring through different forms of reality. The book posits the existence of a person whose self-conceptions are undone by their own images of themselves. Cascading in a social landscape in which our digital-selves perhaps have more notoriety, gravitas and more influence than us, what should we make of the dilemma that our digital images will never possess the authentic truth about the lives we live? Have we been rendered outsiders to our own flesh by our inhuman counterparts? A maze of disintegrating faces, but which are the authors? Perhaps all of them. Perhaps just as many are yours.
Published by Silver+
Unface reckons with the ways in which we formulate and curate our identity in the digital age. The book focuses on the blurry intersection between physical and digital human presences, a labyrinth of referenced existences recurring through different forms of reality. The book posits the existence of a person whose self-conceptions are undone by their own images of themselves. Cascading in a social landscape in which our digital-selves perhaps have more notoriety, gravitas and more influence than us, what should we make of the dilemma that our digital images will never possess the authentic truth about the lives we live? Have we been rendered outsiders to our own flesh by our inhuman counterparts? A maze of disintegrating faces, but which are the authors? Perhaps all of them. Perhaps just as many are yours.
Published by Silver+