Scary Maze
Scary Maze
In the film Scary Maze we see how parents and siblings like to scare their young children. Unaware of the upcoming scare, they are being filmed while concentrating on a puzzle. At some point they are all simultaneously scared, leaving some in laughter, but most in tears. A lesson learned: never trust your parents. Scary Maze is one of many mosaic-films that unite many individual and private internet-experiences into a single frame, a collective experience. The films reveal a synchronicity in seemingly unique webcam-videos posted on the internet. These so called 'memes' (units of cultural transmission or imitation) make up the evolutionary DNA of the internet. The mosaic-films are all collections of unedited webvideos in a high resolution frame, forcing the spectator to select a perspective. These mosaic-films come forth from Verbunt's other visual art (paintings, photography and embroideries) in which he explores the digital self-presentation on the web. These webcam-self-portraits are explored on a micro and a macro-level. How many (or little) pixels does it take to convey an visual emotion? How many individuals does it take to make up a collective experience or meme?