Like famous movie “The Truman Show” , Jennifer Ringley exposes her true life into everyone’ eyes for 8 years .
Originally ,Humans use webcam to document , make available their working process; but some artists try to make people think about the question or ironically undermine notions of it,as Jannifer .
PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS WAITING FOR REAl LIFE TO START , JENNIFER RRINGLEY ,1997
With the advanced teechnology , people started discussing, dreaming of anything brakthrough about Internet ; but ,sjhould we totally believe the Internet without doubt ? at least , more and more artists try to discuss about this question with the common via ther works .
Other contemporary artists such as Mette Ingvartsen in her project Where is my privacy,Mette Ingvartsen,2009(Annie Abrahams, Trapped to Reveal – On webcam mediated communication and collaboration)
Directly talk about privacy dilemma brought from webcam ,and using it to communicate in the performance and dance practice; compared with that , JENNIFER challenge the limitation of how people’s desire to voyeur ,and makes us reflect on the uses of webcam , due to it providing a digital window into another space / time , specially one’s .
As JENNIFER said , she still can be her self upon swithching off the screen or turning off the light ; but , with the Internet , our privacy reveal to whole world without detection , such as private information , facbook message , etc . Can we really escape the voyerism by any strangers ?? perhaps not , we are just another JENNIFER .