TITLE:
FUTURELAND? HOMEPAGE
INSTRUCTIONS:
PRESS THE GREEN FLAG TO START. CLICK THE WORLD YOU WANT TO EXPLORE
DESCRIPTION:
‘FUTURELAND?’ IS ROOTED IN THE IDEA OF AFROFUTURISM. CONTAINING 3 WORLDS ‘SMILE UR IN UTOPIA’, ‘ENDLESS LIBERATION ATTEMPTS’ AND ‘I’M WATCHING U’.
TITLE:
ENDLESS LIBERATION ATTEMPTS
INSTRUCTIONS:
CLICK THE RAPID MOVING BUBBLES TO REVEAL TEXT.
THIS WAS INSPIRED BY RESEARCH ON THE EXCLUSION OF BLACK WOMEN FROM FREEDOM FIGHTS SUCH AS FEMINISM AND FIGHTS AGAINST RACISM. DUE TO A LACK OF INTERSECTIONALITY, BLACK WOMENS STRUGGLES ARE OFTEN DISREGARDED OR OVERLOOKED. FLEXNER (1975). THIS MEANS THAT WHILE EMANCIPATION SEEMS TO BE PROGRESSING, BLACK WOMENS UNIQUE DISCRIMINATION REMAINS. SO THE BUBBLES WITH A INNOCENT FRONT REVEAL A SINISTER TRUTH. THE BUBBLES CONTINUE TO MULTIPLY YOU CLICK OUT OF THE WORLD.
TITLE:
I’M WATCHING YOU
INSTRUCTIONS:
ACCEPT CAMERA USE ON SCRATCH. READ TEXT UNTIL YOU CANT…
DESCRIPTION:
INSPIRED BY FOUCALTS THEORY OF PANOPTICON, I APPLIED THE IDEA OF CIRCULAR SURVEILLANCE TO THE CONSTANT SURVEILLANCE AS A RESULT OF THE DIGITAL AGE. TEXT (SAYING ‘I AM WATCHING YOU, ARE YOU WATCHING ME? I AM WATCHING YOU) AND EYES APPEAR AND MULTIPLY AS A MOSAIC UNTIL THE FORM OF YOUR LIVE FACE IS MADE VISIBLE. PUT INTO THE CONTEXT OF AFROFUTURISM, WITH AN EMPHASIS OF THE FUTURE OF BLACK FEMININE IDENTITIES. I PREDICT THIS CONSTANT SURVEILANCE RESULTS IN THE REPRODUCTION OF STERYOTYPES. AS FOUND, BLACK WOMENS BIAS IS SO PROMINENT IN SOCIETY THAT IF AN INDIVIDUALS IDENTITY IS RELIANT ON THE SPECTATORS GAZE ULTIMATELY BLACK WOMEN WILL ABSORB THIS STERYOTYPE AND IT BECOMES AN IDENTIFIER….. READ MORE IN USER MANUAL
