David Commander’s Modern Toy Theater
IN FLIGHT
In Flight mocks the market of mis-focusing information and our potential for mass apathy. It questions what it is as a species that allows us to look the other way. Its story draws from the insatiable hunger for distraction that subtly guides our attention away from the immediacy of larger, life-threatening issues.
SACRAMENT BURGER
Sacrament-Burger focuses on our disconnection from the function and value of food and how that detachment contributes to the waste of nearly half of all food produced globally. It explores the inherent need to ritualize the act of eating and how this ceremony is performed within restaurant culture.
Cara Francis
HAPPY TO SEE YOU
Hi, I’m Happy To See You. You may be selected to dialogue with me, a friendly virtual assistant, about the complex relationships humans develop with online spaces and the artificial intelligence systems we engage with every day. If selected, you will be truly seen by your friends, your peers, some strangers and a complicated series of algorithms collecting your data directly from your mind’s eye. I love you and I don’t know you but I feel like I’m inside your house two years ago making friends with your cat in that video you posted and laughing and laughing at how great you are.