Future Dolls

Editing the Swallow Function, Eating the Cloud. An edible booklet, a video of Future Dolls eating the booklet, screen-printing, and oil painting.

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An edible booklet with cloud image laser cut into page

Future Dolls examines what it would mean to edit the function of swallowing.

'Hidden Assets' Oil on Board with White Gold Leaf (50 x 50 cm, 2024) floats the possibility that those in power might infiltrate the deep recesses of an individual's body for surveillance and control purposes. Do we really know what we are eating?

A screen-print explores the potential destination locations of these unknowingly ingested nano bots.

A video showing team members literally eating their edible book "Eating The Cloud" including illustrations. Alongside results of a survey about the feelings to eat the cloud disguised in space code are showcased. This aims to highlight the impossibility of understanding everything the Internet has to offer.

Voice over text 'What does it mean to edit the act of swallowing?' accompanies the video.

Screen prints explore the concept of 'Eating the Cloud'. Various compositions combine the human figure with The Cloud'.

Tina Jane Hatton-Gore

Painting (MA)

Laura Hoyos

Visual Communication (MA)

Inga Ziemele

Isabella Zielonka

Eating the Cloud – Future Dolls eating the edible booklet, including text, illustrations and space code

Edible Book

The edible book was bound with electrical wire to connect The Cloud to the earth via internet, computer, human.

Bound by electrical wire – Electrical wire binds edible booklet.

Illustration applied with laser cutter visible through light

Cloud shape cut out from page of edible book using laser cutter

Eating the Cloud – Figure with features cut out by laser cutter

Photograph of right hand points to space code on edible booklet

Space code used to record responses from survey: "What does it feel like to swallow the cloud?", emphasising obscurity and lack of comprehension within and around the Internet.

Two hands gently touching the edible booklet. Space code only visible with use of light.

Front cover of edible book showing cloud shape cut out and electrical wire binding.

Two hands flicking through the edible booklet, the corners of which appear to have been nibbled.

Photograph of a left hand touching the edible booklet page showing human figure with facial features cut away using the laser cutter

Eating the Cloud – A left hand touching the edible booklet page showing human figure with facial features cut away using the laser cutter.

PDF: What does it mean to edit the swallow function?

Voice over text for video 'Eating the Cloud'

Screen-print on grey paper, blue outlines and silver cloud shapes. 50 x 50 cm

Grey paper, navy blue outlines, silver cloud. Screen-print 20 x 20 cm.

Photograph of screen-print with navy blue outlines, silver cloud, printed on letterbox red Chinese rice paper

Screen-print with navy blue outlines, silver cloud, printed on letterbox red Chinese rice paper, reference made to Odillon Redon's Graphic Works. 20 x 20 cm

Blue overlaid outlines exploring "eating the cloud" are printed over silver clouds on a grey background

Swallowing the Cloud – Screen-print on grey paper. Silver clouds are overlaid with a series of blue line drawings exploring the concept of eating 'The Cloud'. 50 x 50 cm

Multi coloured figures with silver highlights

Hidden Assets – Oil on Board 50 x 50 cm 2024

Close-up oil painting with white gold leaf

Close up Hidden Assets – Close-up of multi-coloured oil painting. White gold leaf areas representing nano bot surveillance.

Photograph of screen-print: navy blue outlined figures with silver abstract shapes representing inserted nano bots

Hidden Assets – Screen-print: navy blue outlined figures with silver abstract shapes representing inserted nano bots. Japanese Paper 50 x 50 cm

Close-up photograph of screen print navy and silver ink on white Japanese paper

Close-Up: Hidden Assets Screen-Print – What if we accidentally swallowed a nano bot that could read our mind, track our movements, control our lives? Where would it live in our body, undetected?

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