WE ARE WHAT THE INTERNET MAKES US

We Are What The Internet Makes Us is an installation of five digital sculptures, each blinking, breathing and twitching. Over ten minutes, each character slowly morphs into five different ideological representations of an idealised or ‘perfected’ self in an experimental format of sculptural digital bodybuilding.

Developed with human models, the five characters are modified in post-production, looking directly into the camera and into your eyes, playing into Masahiro Mori’s psychological construct of The Uncanny Valley - the moment between your brain’s perception of a healthy human and a robot. We Are What The Internet Makes Us asks a series of questions; Who might you be if you could design yourself in any way imaginable? How is new media affecting how we perceive ourselves, and what role do society and technology play in self-mediation?

Keywords - Computer Science, Consumer Psychology, Cybernetics, Digital Bodybuilding, Digital Sculpture, Fashion Silhouette, Fine-Art, Human-Computer Interaction, Identity Design, Moving Image, New Media, Photography, Post-Humanism, Semiotics, Web3