Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Future Ghosts”
These past few weeks I’ve been looking inwards, frequently. My Twitter timeline seems to have suddenly become inundated with positive ‘BuzzTweets’; ‘Don’t worry about what’s happened, focus on what’s ahead’, ‘Today’s a new day, a new beginning, so smile’, but why should I? Maybe all this toothsome positivity is manifesting …
An introduction to the Liminal Worlds project
Late February saw the emergence into the Twittersphere of the @MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia app. Tech that enables you to ‘animate your old family photos’ (My Heritage Twitter account; 03/03/21). By uploading an image, the app would bring the person ‘to life’. Within a few short moments you could be visually …
“I guess the modern ghost is a product of technology. On a psychological level, as soon as you get a moving image, its nearest analogy is a ghost or a phantom. Ghosts in the moving image have always been inextricably linked” Mark Leckey, in Wallis & Coustou 2019, 17 Special …
The year is 2220, humans still exist as corporeal entities, not all have chosen, or can afford, to upload their consciousnesses fully to the network. Physical landscapes also persist, however, due to cataclysmic environmental change, these geological stratigraphies are now only accessed as points of reference. Archives, both geomorphological and …