You Cant Tell the Difference

Video Installation

Exhibited at 2:13 Experimental Video Festival Athens, GR

February 2006

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Youcanttellthedifference:
Shaped by variety of reasons, human intelligence had formed the way we live within our societies. No matter when the first human intelligence had been born in the history, You can't tell the difference questions the emergence of the existing differences between humankinds which have been shaped by societies. During the history, these differences including language, race, traditions, nationality etc could only be enclosed within geographical borders by country definitions for centuries.
Since the 1990s, there had been a huge technological development of unprecedented speed for the digital media. It had become much easier to find and share tons of information on the internet. World Wide Web enabled us to live within a global connection.

Consequently, current vast information traffic meandering all around us has already created virtual spaces without physical addresses.
As Armand Mattlelart has observed:
Information were free, everyone would have access to it. If information gave power and were within the grasp of everyone, then power would be in the hands of everyone. If the planetarization of information engendered interdependence, then there would no longer be any risk that power could be used by some to dominate others. Reality reveals what the myth veils. It is through the conflicts of social actors that the use values of information emerge.

Presently, people possess usernames and a password to access the every detailed information in the World Wide Web. With this respect, an individual has lost the social identity, instead established a new identity with/without creating differences between others. Moreover, metropolitan cities endorsed the situation by opening the physical barriers for whom who could survive. Metropolitan cities are filled with people from different nationalities and origins. These people try to adapt their traditions to their environment; some even have no idea of their origins. As a result the differences between humankinds are to be diminishing via loosing their identities. You can't tell the difference is a series of visual/sound art work trying to pinpoint this issue that is discussed briefly as above by stressing the vanishing discrimination between individuals within the societies.

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