Eva & Franco Mattes

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My Generation (2010)

A supercut compilation of webcam videos of frustrated gamers, having violent outbursts, screaming and convulsing while physically attacking technology. The degraded video runs on an old computer ruin scattered across the floor.

 

 

Installed at Plug In, Basel

 

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, My Generation

 

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, My Generation

Installed at Fondation PHI, Montreal

 

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, My Generation

Installed at Fotomuseum Winterthur

 

 

 

 

 

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Installed at Site Gallery, Sheffield

 

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, My Generation

 

 

The collage is an attempt to capture the overflowing, hysterical emotions of adolescents in their now private-public bedrooms. The supposedly entertaining activity of playing games is here linked to disturbing feelings of sadness, violence and depression. But it also mirrors the frustration we can all feel about life amidst so many networked devices and so much data.

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, My Generation

 

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, My Generation

 

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, My Generation

 

 

 

Eva & Franco Mattes, My Generation

Screenshots from video