Thursday 2nd December 2010

REUBEN INGALL – “WEBBED”

They’ve found glitch house on abandoned mobile phones in the Sahara, music distributed via taxi in African townships is released on Warp and Russia becomes a clubbers Mecca.

Geographical isolation is now obsolete, as concept, as reality.

But internally, psychologically, we’re more lonely than ever. As technology sleekly advances, humanity shrinks in on itself. Digital communication is the simulacra that reforges ties that didn’t survive for a reason, while we cannot look another person in the eyes when attempting to hold a conversation. Our mobile networks are more resolute and wider reaching than ever before, and our human form slowly d/evolves into rudimentary compounds of amino acids and proteins.

The body disappears as the mind grows on, humanity a collective head in a jar.

DOWNLOAD: Reuben Ingall – “Webbed”

(Photo: Lieke Romeijn)