The Presence Project: JEN

The Builders Association and dbox, SUPER VISION: JEN

SUPER VISION tells three stories

1. As he crosses successive borders, a solitary traveler gradually is forced to reveal all of his personal information, until his identity becomes transparent, with no part of his life left outside the boundaries of datasurveillance.

2. A young woman (Jen), addicted to the white noise of constant connection, maintains a long-distance relationship with her Grandmother. As she makes efforts to digitally archive her Grandmother's past, the Grandmother slips into senility.

3. A father covertly exploits his young son's personal data to meet the demands of the family's lifestyle. This ploy escalates beyond the father's control, until he is compelled to disappear. His wife and son are left with a starkly diminished data portrait, and his escape is shadowed by the long reach of the datasphere.

Video streaming: Grandmother/Jen Scene 1

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Left to right: Moe Angelos (the Grandmother), forestage;
Tanya Selvaratnam (Jen), onstage; Moe Angelos mediated
live onto computer screen.
photo by dbox

Allen Hahn

Allen Hahn: With the third story - which we continued to tinker with for some time, again we wanted to give Jen (Tanya Selvaratnam) a separate story, a separate visual character to the light – give it a little vitality – which in the end translated into it being the most visually colorful of the three stories, both in the video and in what I am doing.

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