andrewrobards.com/reportontomorrow/
website
Commission for Runway Journal 38: Spectacle
HTML, CSS, jQuery, web browser, video files
Duration and dimensions variable
2019
“The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images.” ― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
Report On Tomorrow is a responsive digital assemblage that reconfigures fragments of the internet’s public domain into a shifting, browser-based montage. Found video and image materials are deconstructed, glitched, and animated into discrete narrative units before being recomposed through the mechanics of the web browser.
The resulting composition resembles a watchful eye gazing outward from the screen, a reminder of the reciprocity between viewing and being viewed. Each iteration generates a new configuration, yet always within the same underlying graphic structure. In this tension between repetition and variation, Report On Tomorrow reflects on the unstable life of digital images: endlessly recyclable, fragmented, and reassembled into new spectacles of meaning.