******.com

Vesper Guo | School of the Art Institute of Chicago

******.com investigates the dynamic between watching and being watched, by illustrating a mundane accident that takes place when you sit in front of your laptop, browsing others' lives with a voyeuristic gaze.

As we easily and quickly access different “eyes” through our computer screen, we seem to be able to poke through the physical screen and to touch on the vulnerable privacy beyond our ownership. It feels like a transient intimacy as well as a subjective power of control that masks who we are, not only in relation to others, but also as a recognition that's internalized into oneself. Yet, as we share the resources and mentality, such dynamics are simultaneously mutual.