EatMyBits is a project reflective of media-user relationships supported by digital communication and explores considerations of identity, perception and attention in relation with the formal and conceptual properties of online culture. It is a work inspired by the proliferation of non-commercial user generated videos on Youtube and the mass appeal of homemade content.
Time changes everything. While you stare… with every time you click and watch you take away more bits from me. With every repetition, with every use, my power to gain your attention fades away. Little is left of me here, but what has become of you?
In its intended format (a web application) the experience was conceived to deny a viewer the presupposed dynamics by which digital content is considered to be timeless and have unlimited replay capacity. Breaking an ordinary viewer-content hierarchy the reiterative consumption of the banality on display eventually leads to its corruption.
Alongside questions related to the Spectacle, in its present incarnation as a microfilm EatMyBits brings out the commonly veiled physicality of the Internet in a recording of a performance that can be consumed until it no longer is. Is the Internet really forever?