Media and the Body

A lot of what media and the body means to me comes by way of how we consume media, not necessarily how we perform it. To that end, I chose an image from The Matrix, wherein the characters are "jacked in". In the movie's canon, The Matrix began as a way to escape the world, a form of entertainment. As time dragged on, the people of that world began to spend more time consuming media of the Matrix, "playing the game" as it were, that they a majority of their lives in the Matrix, eventually becoming wholly integrated with it.

The sad bit about all this is that it's how I see media consumption evolving in the next 200 years. As we seek to create increasingly immersive experiences, natural evolution of the idea will come 'round to whole-consciousness immersion in the experience and we'll long for something outside our normal, dreary lives.