Elesa Stellios

As someone immersed in online spaces, I am interested in the effects of digital culture on the psyche, and how this encounter may confer a shared experience. Engaging with a rapidly developing technological world means tracking how realities are formed, how virtual spaces interact with the actual world, and how digital content often blurs the line between being meaningful and meaningless.

This is a study on the experience of being oversaturated and overstimulated with content of no real value. The work is a split-screen display between a central video and a margin that is vying for attention. The margin is the core of the work, a distraction to the central frame, that intentionally tries to capture the viewer’s focus. It intends to pry open our vulnerability to distractions, to expose where our attention spans take us, and our inability to resist.

Sometimes, instead of consuming media, media consumes us.