“Is this him? Yes, this is him.” A Zoe chip is handed to the Cutter (scene from The Final Cut) Through my wider research several recommendations have come up recently for moving image representations of digital afterlife. I have now watched two in this genre ‘The Final Cut’ (Dir: Omar Naim) and ‘Be Right Back’… Read More →
Tag: Afterlife
Exploring death and the digital afterlife
We cannot not leave traces (Merzeau, 2009) Having initially explored decollage and digital decollage I felt I had not quite got to where I wanted. I liked the final images but the digital versions in particular, had become too stylized and lost some of their depth and ‘edge’. In parallel I had been working on… Read More →
Digital Objects of the Dead: Negotiating electronic remains
Bereavement means the experience of deprivation and loss (Moller, 1996) and ‘grief is the primarily emotional reaction to the loss of a loved one.’ (Stroebe & Schut, 1998) Human response to loss is not genetically determined but culturally learned. (DeSpelder & Strickland, 1996) The article begins by highlighting the socially constructed nature of grieving and… Read More →