AR time! These filters are on the @daata.art app. Many thanks to wonderful @aliceaaires for the modelling and animation! 😍 🥇 It's a 19th century masturbation machine gifted to me at Christmas by my brother (slightly strange I know). I used it in my film 'The New Me' as way to make me feel like a purring cat. 🥈 A mask to help you clean the dishes with your face. 🥉 A machine that increases intimacy between you and a friend/ partner while you brush their teeth and apply lipstick. 📊All brought to you by my imaginary dystopian company: The *Ilium corporation* "Across The New Me, Gibbens produces objects with a Do-It-Yourself aesthetic that is contrary to the sleek perfection of mass-marketed products, where the seamless, smooth, anonymous manufacturing dissembles its perforce lack of originality. She begins the process of mediation through the video works that mimic the narrative and behaviour modelling of home shopping advertisements. The typical finesse of these sale pitches is made rough by the bizarre offerings of Gibbens’ imagination. From the videos, she shifts into Augmented Reality, a means in many commercial contexts for the user to “try on” the product and experience how it fits or works. Gibbens’ AR face filters adopt the iconic element of each product—tooth, cat, sponge—but can’t produce embodied sensation, undermining the purported use. Finally, Gibbens created NFTs, 3D renderings of the objects with a logo in the corner, as if to introduce these products to the metaverse, which laughably undermines their utility function and highlights the shiny marketing and status aesthetics across much of NFT culture. The layers of product presentation are exhaustive and expectations of perpetual self-presentation exhausting." Charlotte Kent @lucyscribbles