Yul Shif, Nimrod Landsman

Since we never even here

“Since we are never even here” is a video work that evolved from the experience of wandering through the virtual space. We were interested in focusing on the Internet’s multidimensional geography and its inherent potential for interactivity and sharing. The online universe is composed of private and disparate spaces located in the real world and connected to each other through countless virtual networks. In reality, these spaces are disconnected and far apart, unable to access each other. In such circumstances, the apprehension and experience of sensory and ethical judgment are undermined. Never fully completed, our online experience is reduced to the informational level, generating a sense of dissatisfaction. This is the nature of Internet-enclosed information: it is produced and consumed within the physical homes of private users, only to be exported and virally transmitted through various media channels - such as tutorials, ChatRoulette, social profiles, gaming, etc. The work follows the mechanism that drives the production, dissemination and consumption of internet information. To this end, we set up in our apartment a sealed space which only exit was through the screen. The hermetism of the space was recently made more tangible by the social confinement imposed on us by the corona pandemic: information is the only thing that can enter and exit this space. During our stay in the space, we created an endless sequence of random encounters based on the logic of search engines and we simulated an online flood of video tutorials.