In our daily lives, our eyes spend hours in front of the cell phone screen. To deny the centrality of this tool would be to deny a human evolution that walks hand in hand with technological evolution, understood here as an auxiliary means for humans, not necessarily as something harmful.
With this in mind, RUFA student Michele Pomponio defines phone screen recording as the greatest contemporary “neorealist” framing: a device capable of showing, without artifice, what a person sees during his or her day, whether extraordinary or ordinary.
The Digital Chronicle project tells a story entirely through the recording of the cell phone screen, transforming a habitual and unnoticed gesture into a narrative act. The strength of the work lies in its “double framing”: the screen is both what our eyes see and a projection of our own “self.”
The project, along with all the finalist works from the “Normal is Extraordinary” international contest , will be on display at the MAXXI Corner from Dec. 5 to 8 (free admission).
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