Casper's Ex
Casper de Jong
How close are you to your phone, emotionally?
Casper’s Ex is a playful interactive installation on the relationship between human beings and everyday technology. More specifically, this installation is about the relationship between our smartphones and ourselves.
Our phones have grown into one of our most intimate companions. We go everywhere together, share everything with them. The relationship we have with our devices is co-dependent, verging on toxic TBH. Yet when a newer, better model comes along we discard them into the bottom drawer without remorse. The phone, however, cannot move on. Have you ever thought about how they feel? Your data, your scent, and your picture are all they have left. Casper’s Ex is a lonely smartphone that’s been left behind and is trying to connect with you while you are passing by.
Will you turn your back and walk away?
Casper de Jong explores what connects and moves us as humans through his playful interactive work. Combining theatre, ethics and complex human emotions, his work contributes to the conversation around the integration of technology into our lives and minds. Always taking a light-hearted approach, Casper provokes people to reflect on the good and the dangerous sides of technology in our lives. He graduated in 2017 from the University of The Arts, Utrecht.