MARIOS PAVLOU
THE DIAL UP TRILOGY
installation, dimensions variable, 3D animation videos on two monitors, digital print (59.4 cm x 84.1 cm), diploma exhibition, Athens School of Fine Arts, 2015
http://mrcievilmomo.tumblr.com
The Dial Up Trilogy is based on three texts/poems, narrated by Cievil Momo. They highlight the vast change of human communication. They question how love can be digitalised and how everyone of us dials up to the internet as a ritual that emerges from a daily need “to loathe reality”. By experimenting with the feeling of omnipotence that someone can adopt behind the privacy and security of a screen, the texts used in the installation were co-written with online users in social media and online dating platforms. In these poetic stories, the complexity of human desire becomes the drive of a digital narrative and yet another recording in a system that boosts self projection by blurring the border between fiction and reality.