Ms Lucy Coggle

Research project: Digital Scurvy; shimmering the screen

Abstract

Digital Scurvy prises digitally native language from the screen and inhabits its formats, neologisms, structures and rhythms to test the possibilities these hold for expression, creation and subversion.  

The project explores our ever-inverting relationship to the technologies we construct: built in imitation of our perception of ourselves, this transliteration from human-to-digital inevitably introduces skews, novelties, misunderstandings, aberrations and inconsistencies. In short, a new vernacular is forged in the digital, one which bleeds back into the language it initially impersonated. This digital substance –  the mother tongue schooled online – has a different texture, weight and speed than it carried before. Re-introduced to a human, literary space of query and investigation, these qualities are felt out, inhabited, and held with a slower pace of attention than their origins anticipated; what has been neutered into instrumentalism, used solely as a signifier or code, once again sprawls with associative, transgressive potential.