Scary Maze - Camille Verbunt (The Netherlands, 2008, video, 02:30 min)This film is part of a series of mosaic-films that unite many individual and private, yet published experiences into a single frame, a collective experience. It reveals a synchronicity in seemingly unique webcam- and home videos posted on the Internet. The mimicking of other Internet videos is more than the desire to share a personal thrill. Through publishing one becomes part of a larger movement. The mechanical repetition of action and design within this group in turn propels new contributions with small alterations. These so called 'memes' (units of cultural transmission or imitation) make up the evolutionary DNA of the Internet. Slow memetic changes in degrees of openness and social behaviour are already detectable. Collective anxiety has never looked this funny.
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