Homo telematicus explores the shifting conditions of human presence within networked space. The work brings remote participants into a shared visual environment, where their live webcam images are cut out, multiplied, scaled and woven together into a dynamic composite. This evolving assemblage is mapped onto a sculptural projection surface and re captured on video, creating a recursive feedback between bodies, screens and spatial form. The project extends my long standing interest in telematic exchange—how encounters across distance can generate new forms of intimacy, play and collective authorship. By allowing up to eight participants to join simultaneously, Homo telematicus stages a distributed performance in which the social fabric of the piece is continually reshaped by those who inhabit it. Prerecorded material and my own live contributions further blur distinctions between performer, audience and system. The additional integration of layered audio situates the visual composition within a broader field of sampled and streamed sound. This interplay of voices, signals and temporalities parallels the fragmented yet connected condition of contemporary telepresence. Presented as both a live Instagram performance and a mapped video installation, Homo telematicus reflects on how we construct ourselves—and one another—within the architectures of the network. It is an experiment in distributed embodiment, co creation and the evolving identity of the telematic human.
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