Digital Twin

Blog by Hans Timmermans - March 2024: 'As DigiCorp Labs, we wrote about it before: 'We are entering a new mirror world'.Extensive virtual worlds filled with avatars and digital twins. Built in our physical image and immersed in a surrounding digital sea of ​​data, information and knowledge. Where everything is artificial, even intelligence. . .'

'Digital Twins' is about all the information that can be found about someone online. You can see all your stored personal data in databases as your digital twin. Yet Pauline suspects that this will give a different picture than reality. Technical and human errors almost certainly create 'noise'. It also refers to the contemporary exposure to share your life with the world on the SoMe platforms.

The entire installation is made up of 3 panels (2.40 x 2.58 meters per panel). The front and back can both be seen. One panel is covered with important photos from Pauline's private life printed on transparent fabrics, which hang over each other. That she is now sharing on the internet for the first time, but indirectly. Jacquard woven fabric, woven at Textiles Zentrum Haslach Austria, is stretched on the other two panels.The design is a photo collage consisting of 8 boxes with body parts of Pauline, painted with passwords. The 18 'holes' in the design symbolize the gaps in the information transfer. It has become a particularly interesting work, partly because the 'translation' of these holes is depicted with 9 different weaving weaves.
Two large pink plush punching bag hangs from the ends of these two panels.

different gold-colored parts have been added in this installation. Referring to the precious metal used in mobile devices. Big money is being made there by the Big Tech companies. The symbolism about vulnerability was also evident during the weaving process; the gold thread regularly snapped due to the pattern weft.