Jamie Dorst Looking Outward 10

For this week’s Looking Outward post I’ve chosen to write about Kate Hollenbach, an artist, programmer, and educator based in Chicago and Los Angeles. The project that really interested me by her is called phonelovesyoutoo. The project was done over one month, where she recorded her own cell phone front camera every time she used her phone. In her database, she put together all the videos arranged like a calendar, and played each tile proportional to the time of day it was recorded.

A video showing phonelovesyoutoo.

I was intrigued by this project because I think our phone usage is something that we hardly notice albeit it being one of the things we do most. I thought it was interesting to note the similarities and differences between clips in the project–a lot of her facial expressions are very similar, while the scenery around her changes. I think that has implications as to how we are spending our time–when we are on our phones, we have no emotion despite the changing world around us.