University of Applied Arts Vienna #selfcompetenceselfie #selfcompetenceselfie is a sample for masked flash mobs on Instagram. The Master Thesis is describing the digital performance as a tele-production, a Recording of a Rehearsal on Zoom, practicing drag in a dancing loop. While spinning to the left, in the direction of their hearts, like dervishes, holding their Smartphones vertically, being framed horizontally on the Zoom-App, masked performers repeated 10 self-competence terms, recorded in the virtual meeting room. According to the voice, as indexical trace of the body, the automatic Recording did the montage. Language acts like a virus, the self-competence terms are appellative, infectious. Due to repetition they lose meaning. The movie of this performance of a rehearsal, my Master presentation, was recorded as allowed by the recording technique, which is based on a combination of sound & image: the one who speaks via integrated microphone has the power of speech as well as the power of image. Only one single selfie at a time is visible in the processed final Recording video. The person speaks via integrated microphone and creates the sound, which generates the selfie that will be seen in the Recording. Zoom, as integrated agent, freaks the boundaries between selfie and myself; here-and-now, there-and-then; direction and perspective; reflection, production, perception, participation, documentation and fiction. The software and recording technique become an integral part. They participate both aesthetically and communicate as machine with the human beings and their selfies. The artwork becomes a product of determined technical computation as well as a product of my certified artistic freaky subjectivity. Master Master container Master Master 2020 Sommersemester summer term 2020 Margareta Elisabeth Klose Nita Tandon Diese Abschlussarbeit ist im Zuge einer Datenbankmigration (2022) in das Repositorium der angewandten migriert worden. Die Abschlussarbeit wird im Rahmen der Veröffentlichungspflicht (§ 86 UG 2002) zur Verfügung gestellt. Haben Sie inhaltliche oder redaktionelle Anliegen zur digitalen Version dieser Abschlussarbeiten, drücken Sie auf die oder den Eigentümer:in. Sie werden dann an den Support weitergeleitet. This thesis has been migrated to the repository of the angewandte in the course of a database migration (2022). The thesis is made available within the framework of the obligation to publish (§ 86 UG 2002). If you have content or editorial concerns about the digital version of these theses, press the owner. You will then be forwarded to the support team. 2020 Sommersemester summer term 2020