Jake McNamara

CYBERBOND

Cyberbond (2020-2021) is a collection of works that showcases the ever changing emotions and circumstances surrounding my relationship with technology and its overuse and abuse during this pandemic. It follows me throughout my journey and entrapment in the digital realm, eventually leading to my various attempts to escape or cope with my newfound living conditions.

I am experimenting with intersecting my body within interfaces and being physically present within my own works. It is important to maintain this physical connection as I’ve been recently splitting my digital self over so many platforms due to the current circumstances of the world. As a product of the late 90s and a child of the net, I have grown accustomed to the rapid colonization of our digital utopia. I finally realize just how unrecognizable my world has become, how unrecognizable I’ve become. I’ve found myself stretched thin, trapped within the digital realm, a wandering cybernaut, looking for a now lost exit.  The works present in this show, much like myself, are ensnared in this world. As such, the sizes and dimensions of these works will vary depending upon the hardware and software used to view them.

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Jake McNamara

Time for Change, Color Video with sound, performance installation, 4 minutes 44 seconds Installation/Performance: Dimensions vary | Poster: 18x24in 2020

My Work, as it relates to the prompt, is a call to action and a venting of frustrations in face of current events. Its main focus is on the overwhelming amount of negative news media that we encounter on a day to day basis. We are constantly barraged by media from various sources a lot of which focuses on the many disheartening current events going on in the country and around the world. As if this were not bad enough, a lot of these sources tend to present this information with an incredible bias which only adds to stress to a viewer’s consumption. The way I see it, we are at a point in time in which we have to break free from this media consumption cycle. Stay informed but don’t let yourself be consumed by the stress of it all, and if you’re up for the task, don’t just be content with watching. It’s time for change.