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If not now, sit back relax, while you can is two video pieces facing each other. One video shows people looking into their computer screens. They are staring, rarely blinking. They are self-aware of taping themselves. They gain importance and purpose by challenging each other with who can stare the longest without blinking. Once these people upload their videos onto the Internet they are no longer looking at their computer screens but looking at the person watching the video. Who is the viewer? Who is challenging whom? What is the purpose? The original challenge gets distorted as the content changes for who is watching.
The second video contains no images but scrolling text. All the text is taken from headline captions from news articles on the subject, climate change. There are over 100 different headlines that scroll up the page. As the video plays, the headlines create conversations with each other. Some headlines will debate each other in conflict while others merely question what we should or shouldn’t do over climate change. The list goes on for 3 minutes and 30 seconds, over saturating the audience with information, lack of information and a run around debate that leaves the audience with no answer to the most serious issue mankind is faced with. Does this information help or create more problems? The audience is left with no answers pushing the viewer to be an activist, skeptic or left in the middle.
The content of the person changes in context with the headline captions. The person blindly stares toward the captions scrolling up the page. Their intense yet blind stare, represents the people left in the middle, not knowing how to react toward climate change because of the on-going debate happening in the media.
