Critics of the singularity, and you know who you are, might begin by simply pointing out that all the talk of cybernetics and life extension has little to do with reality. And that of course is part of the point, after all—to transcend reality, because reality is old and tired and not fun.The artist Jillian Mayer embraces this utopian vision with a refreshing physicality. In #PostModem, a dream-like short film made with Lucas Leyva last year—a 14-minute "series of cinematic tweets" that also resulted in an installation last year in Miami—Mayer goes through the future wringer: she gets a motherboard stuck in her forehead, straps herself into one of those water jetpacks, and even goes so far as to draw an AOL logo on her face. (She has also, as we've noted previously, covered her face in makeup in the most elaborate anti-surveillance technique I've ever seen.)I saw the film show at the Imagine Science Film Festival last year (alongside, among others, a short documentary about an old man transformed by Microsoft Paint), and was especially captivated by one of its vignettes: a music-video infomercial for the ultimate kind of upload (excerpted below), which may be the first (and only?) time you will think about doing a hand dance to the singularity.Also, a GIF courtesy of Jillian:
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