“The viewer is absolutely central, but at the same time, he or she is missing from the scene,” she said, speaking to an overflow crowd at YSA’s 32 Edgewood Gallery.
She considered the isolating nature of the effect. She applied it to the rise of reality television and automation, referencing a vast mechanized Amazon warehouse where employees are treated as robots.
“Is this ‘bubble vision’ — this 360-degree vision — a training scheme to adapt humans to a world from which they are increasingly missing because they have been replaced by invisible systems or automation or robot?” asked Steyerl, whose research focuses on media, technology and the distribution of images. “Are people rehearsing how to be their own ghosts?”
– Don’t be fooled by ‘bubble vision,’ says visiting artist Hito Steyerl, Yale News