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Do You Ever Lose Control?

Where your facial expressions become fragmented digital distortions.

You know those times when you just totally lose control, like if your computer’s taking too long to load a page, say, longer than a nanosecond, or you step out of bed and your bare foot plunges straight into some cat puke. A crimson mist fogs your brain, you know you shouldn’t be angry, but dammit, you are. If your head could morph into a spiky tornado of contorted digital rage with a distended tongue then it would. Well that’s a bit like what this digital video Nonmanifold_Mandible does, created by artist Ben F. Carney who says:

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Nonmanifold_mandible investigates loss of control over human emotions. To parallel unreasonable human behaviors, control over a digital character’s facial expression is given to four channels of emotive audio, allowing for violent reactions and a loss of identity.

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