Staccato animation remixing Warhol's 1965 photobooth portraits. A hauntological study of tech-bonding and digital identity.

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Reliquing 4Cuts: Warhol Photo Booth Revisited

Digital animation with sound (Loop), 2020
Duration: 01:15

Let's Sing a Gay Little Spring Song, 1942 Disney's Bambi.
Andy Warhol, Today's Teen-Agers, January 29, 1965.
Collection: National Portrait Gallery

Capturing the "push-pull" of digital performance, this work mimics the Life4Cuts craze...

We mimick the way teens once enthusiastically played with Warhol's photobooths, bonding with the ghosts of modernism. It is a loop that's alluring and eerie; tech invites us to perform, yet slowly erases the identity it claims to capture.