Signs of Life is an exploration of the last frontier left to humanity – the virtual frontier. Humans now exist across multiple planes of reality. Many of us have developed friendships or found community within digital spheres. This can range from Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, VRChat and other video games, streamers and influencers, TikTok, Discord, Twitch communities, and Facebook groups, just to name a few that I happen to be active in. What happens in digital space can greatly influence what happens in organic space. Technology and the digitization of our lives have drastically changed the way we view ourselves and the world around us. We live in burgeoning phases of hyperreality, where the lines between real and virtual have begun to blur and redefine our concepts of truth, reality, and self. Signs of Life begins to explore how these ways of living affect us culturally, socially, and psychologically, while questioning how we develop and maintain our senses of self in these digital worlds.
