I’ve been following the work Gregory Chatonsky for several years now (I included him in the first Terminal exhibition). I am always impressed with the way that he can make work that is sophisticated in its use of technology but is still very “human” and touching.
His latest piece is a case in point. “The Waiting / Flussgeist 1″ takes image from Flickr, video of passengers waiting for a train and random twitter posts to create a very touching impromptu narrative. I imagine that we have all sat in a crowded airport or train station and wondered about the private lives of those around us. Chatonsky’s piece takes that sort of day dreaming and uses the seeming randomness of twitter posts to give us a fictional glimpse at the inner lives of strangers. Chatonsky says the piece is “not the life-story of one person or another but the story of the Internet machine that feeds on our lives daily.” The internet has become a place for us to think out loud.
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