Description (en)
#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.
Keywords (en)
self-competence, Zoom, movie, digital performance, intrinsic motivation, self-optimization