(dis)appearance
Telecommunication technologies promise us the ability to be anywhere at any time. They allow us to reach a destination even though no departure has occurred.
The appearance of a destination is the sudden disappearance of the previous one. Thus, no meaning, ground, or narrative is possible, and every moment collapses in on itself.
Byung-Chul Han wrote: "The atomization of life goes hand in hand with an atomization of identity. All we have is our self, our little ego. We are subject to a radical loss of space and time, even of the world, of being-with."
In (dis)appearance, hundreds of AI-generated windows with views of places that don't exist, randomly (dis)appear in an empty Euclidean space.