Video

ide rather eat you

Maya Ben David

2015, 06:40 minutes, colour, English, Japanese

TAPECODE 1074.04

ide rather eat you examines the popular practice of the embellishment of 1990's personal websites with animated “doll GIFS.” Common characteristics of the "doll GIFS” are repetitive movements (e.g. eye blinking) and the blending of Japanese and western animation styles. Despite their cute allure, “doll GIFS” feel almost grotesquely artificial. As a still image they are appealing but as a GIF, with their limited movements, they enter the realm of the “uncanny valley”. The uncomfortable hypothetical space where something simulating reality starts to feel too real and unsettling. Cartoons, in essence, are caricatures of reality. Features are stylistically exaggerated or simplified in order to emphasize certain traits. The “doll GIFS,” for example, have large faces, big eyes and long hair to make them look childlike, feminine and cute.

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