Surge of Transference  


Video installation, 2023



Surge of Transference: 

15 mins | 4K & MPEG video, found footage | English with English Subtitles.



Antler antenna:

Mixed media sculpture made out of wood, copper, concrete, sand, bone.


Based on the history of online networks in a small town in Romania, “Surge of transference” re-imagines a future governed by no software or hardware. The film is structured in three parts: the past, the present and the future, shifting through documentary, personal essay and science fiction.

The first part, called “The Past” investigates the infantile age of the internet and the freedom provided by an online space that was not ruled by platforms. Users seemed to have formed offline communities that sprouted from their digital lives. “The present” is enveloped in dizzying electronic music, and stroboscopic lights painted over a washed, dark landscape as seen from a moving car. 

The last part, based in a sci-fi future, things seem to have taken a radical turn caused by a mysterious wave that submerged the world. The inhabitants of the town live in an underwater flourishing ecosystem and communicate through a water-based network that has no materiality. Their new communication system needs no platform or electricity, being rather similar to telepathy. 


Surge of Transference:

15 mins | 4K & MPEG video, found footage | English with English Subtitles.






Antler antenna:

Mixed media sculpture made out of wood, copper, concrete, sand, bone.




Installation view at W139, Amsterdam 
Surge of Transference, installation view at W139, Amsterdam, 2023


Video credits


Camera:
Geo Barcan,
Ollie Paterson

Editing: 
Geo Barcan

Voice over: 
Geo Barcan

Produced by: 
Salwa Foundation

Executive producer:
Ioana Pop

Music by: 
Noise Diva,
Marcel Heckerman,
Tisa World, Marsh,
General Magic & Pita

Text editorial supervision: 
Ollie Paterson

Writing support: 

Georgiana Cojocaru 

Found Footage: 

Internet Archive,
Tutorial Video,
personal archive.