Everywhere we go there's at least one camera and a microphone listening at us every second: our own mobile device, the own we surrendered our freedoms to. All it required was to present it with a charming personality making fun of people not understanding what a revolutionary device this was - and thus an era of hyper vigilance had begun.
Surveillance does not end with our own device - in fact it only starts there. Our own contemporary culture has taken us to ridiculous behaviors like recording an event instead of preserving our lives: everybody became an unexpected witness, and with social media everyone became a judge.
By recording and sharing every event around our lives, we become part of a global network where every person feeds it to the others like a hive, all using huge companies' technologies - an overlord that keeps our data and feeds it along with our images to their own primitive artificial intelligence systems, expecting to milk big money out of our images, our privacy and our lives.
By accepting this social contract of holding a mobile device everywhere we go and constantly feeding data to it, we have surrendered us like fish in a barrel, even if we think we're smart enough to have this kind of equipment.
Barrelfish uses Steve Jobs' iPhone presentation speech as an audio base. By using digital sound processing methods synchronized to an upbeat groove, and filtering some frequencies in and out, the resulting piece tells a story of charming manipulation, and how people fell for this and accepted it as part of their lives. A constant steady bass represents the constant threat of technological progress, and our need to keep up to date by holding the latest device, no matter the excessive cost.
Ulma has the lead role in the play a beta fish stuck in a limited space until she eventually dies of either old age or illness, consuming whatever her overlord decides to, incapable of growth. This innocent being represents the technological society that unknowingly became the fish in the barrel - or tank, in this case. A network of devices are obviously represented, while the pixelated imagery represents the excessive digitalization of contemporary societies.
Transdisciplinary creator and philosopher whose main work identifies and explores humanity's neurological potentials and vulnerabilities - unraveling relations between different elements of reality and the development of both individual and collective minds, with the intention to trace a route that will allow us to reach a permanent state of hyperhumanism.
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