Trend Acceleration: IP States
Trend acceleration (the rapid proposal of new ideas, words, and customs) is the speculative sister of fast-forwarding and immediately pressing play. Afterwards, you remain dangerously worried on the off-chance that you just skipped over the narrator’s punch line.
Culture (and its counter) is an evolving amoeboid. New words replace old words, old customs refuse to budge until they’re broken, and new ideas clash with newer ideas. Trends become elongated tentacles slithering to find a new crevice, a new foothold to grasp. The future is one collective [Gallup] pull in every possible direction.
The cyber peasant fast-forwards and presses play.
First Movement
The initial visually blunt metaphor. You can see Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights through the margins of these divs.
A collection of semi-playful neologisms designed to jumpstart our visions of the future.
Second Movement
A framing of a fantastical near-future in which the average cyber-peasant is protected by IP States in exchange for their data.
Each IP Address generates a custom flag based on the said IP’s location.
Navigate a systematic mapping of each publicly available IP address.
Final Movement
The fomo-nomad can’t seem to get any wifi signal in this jumpstarted world.
And when you're suddenly hidding from those you’ve paid to protect? cmd + t to infinite.
An ongoing mash-up of existing Tweets using the placed neologisms as a centered axis. For the fomo-nomad in you.
A concluding parable over various windows.
Cross-window found-image diptychs.
Alternate Viewing Formats
An applescript performance fast-forwarding viewers through the above-outlined cyberscape.
A collection of parables, neologisms, and images in .pdf form.