Fifty artists were asked to respond to the causes and consequences of a growing compulsive screen culture. Their works aim to wake audiences up from "our dogmatic slumbers about how the 24/7 world is changing us", Stuart Jeffries writes.
'Thirty-thousand feet over the Pacific, the author and artist Douglas Coupland asked a flight attendant why the airline’s wi-fi was so impressively fast. She replied that it needed to be: being online made time pass more quickly for passengers, and is preferable to sleeping.
Why? Coupland suggests we’ve undergone a neural reconfiguration in the 21st century. In 1019, he claims, humans received three-and-a-half dopamine hits a day. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter nicknamed the Kim Kardashian of molecules by British clinical psychologist Vaughan Bell. It creates feelings of pleasure that motivate a person to repeat a specific behaviour.
“A thousand years later, we receive hundreds, thousands, of dopamine hits a day,” argues Coupland. “The part of our brain that regulates our time perception has been overloaded and exhausted, causing our sense of past, present and future to melt together.”' ... Keep reading on The Guardian
'Thirty-thousand feet over the Pacific, the author and artist Douglas Coupland asked a flight attendant why the airline’s wi-fi was so impressively fast. She replied that it needed to be: being online made time pass more quickly for passengers, and is preferable to sleeping.
Why? Coupland suggests we’ve undergone a neural reconfiguration in the 21st century. In 1019, he claims, humans received three-and-a-half dopamine hits a day. Dopamine is the neurotransmitter nicknamed the Kim Kardashian of molecules by British clinical psychologist Vaughan Bell. It creates feelings of pleasure that motivate a person to repeat a specific behaviour.
“A thousand years later, we receive hundreds, thousands, of dopamine hits a day,” argues Coupland. “The part of our brain that regulates our time perception has been overloaded and exhausted, causing our sense of past, present and future to melt together.”' ... Keep reading on The Guardian