Browsing
2015 · 4m · USA
Directed by LaTurbo Avedon
Genres: essay film, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal
A video work by avatar-based digital artist LaTurbo Avedon exploring virtual identity, browsing behavior, and the texture of digital space as a place rather than a tool.
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LaTurbo Avedon is one of the few artists who treats the avatar not as a costume but as the actual ontological condition — Browsing is a film made by someone who only exists inside the screen it's being watched on. That's not a concept, it's just their life.
LaTurbo Avedon has no offline body — every piece is an argument about non-physical authorship. That's actually conceptually serious, not just net-art posturing. I'll grant it.
LaTurbo Avedon exists only as an avatar, which makes every piece an argument about non-physical authorship — and 'Browsing' lets the digital space be a place rather than a tool. Net-art history in motion.