Trireme (Perchance to Dream)

‘What exactly is it you want Mrs Johnson? Something real? Something that hasn’t been made by man?’ Is the opening line from the film. What is it we want as a generation growing up with the digital and internet readily available as the air we breathe, as solid as the ground we walk on? Has the internet and digital taken on a form of its own? Looking at new technologies such as 3D scanning and heavily influenced by the YouTube generation and how we access news, ‘Trireme (Perchance to Dream)_with_news’ is a paradoxical, melting, uncomfortable medley of visuals. Do we really see these 3D empty ‘shells’ or ‘skins’ of objects or the real-life people we view on YouTube any differently? And if they are becoming one and the same thing how can the artistic generation answer this gap between the virtual and physical? How do we get closer to real empathy and feeling closer to someone through the digital? Can Mrs Johnson ever really feel satisfied by something real or that hasn’t been made by man. ‘Trireme’ believes that we can, however it involves having to ask oneself some uncomfortable questions, it’s no use turning a blind eye to our interaction and experiences of the digital, but the face this head on, see how we react when presented with these themes and address them; comment, like, dislike, share.

Harvey Samantha