Love Bites

The project is a surreal self-portrait in the form of a meta queer dating profile. The work looks at relational identity within the digital and natural world. The project asks what role does technology play in our lives when it comes to intimacy and dating, as well as that of danger and desire?

The work is a parody that combines elements taken from documentaries such as Herzog’s Grizzly Man. The work’s non verbal script is that of AI-generated observational narrations through Alt Text captioning. The AI Alt Text has been chosen due to its inability to pick up on cultural subtext and its lack of a physical experience of the world through that of a body, or as we would perceive as one.

The project as a whole follows the artist through different media as they are slowly transformed and consumed by the Great White Shark. The work explores the different ways in which we experience life through physical and digital spaces as the artist attempts to create both a sense of danger as well as intimacy with the viewer.