Measure of Closeness: You Are My Statistical Body

Oc Quantified Self — There is ongoing imperfect synchronicity of body, object, and their social and technological milieu that mark the edges of what can be captured and what can’t not. As for all our concerns, there is always something that drops out. The same old issues of anxiety / The frustration of being stuck / The slow violence of feeling empty / The pathetic hope that someone will understand you without words/ The tendency to give up trying / The inability to relate/ The feeling that no matter what you do is always somehow wrong/ The moment I don't even know/ The shame of self-harm / The mouth smell / The lacking if self-awareness / The smell of night sweat / The murmur of electrons when a living skin touches the plasma screen / The annoyance of not really telling the truth / The itching of jealousy / The skin that can see / The resentment of someone you love / The rage/ The numbness of scrolling down / The irritation of losing a thread of thoughts. Cnaani, Ofri. Quantified Self, digital image, 2020.

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You Are My Statistical Body, is a photograph that captures the moment where our bodies become a medium of transmission for information. Instead ofbeing a moment of care provided by an old tradition of embodied knowledge, this is a moment of prying – both highly personal yet used for profiling. Cnaani, Ofri. You Are My Statistical Body, digital image, 2020

There is ongoing imperfect synchronicity of body, object, and their social and technological milieu that mark the edges of what can be captured and what can’t not. As for all our concerns, there is always something that drops out. The same old issues of anxiety / The frustration of being stuck / The slow violence of feeling empty / The pathetic hope that someone will understand you without words/ The tendency to give up trying / The inability to relate/ The feeling that no matter what you do is always somehow wrong/ The moment I don't even know/ The shame of self-harm / The mouth smell / The lacking if self-awareness / The smell of night sweat / The murmur of electrons when a living skin touches the plasma screen / The annoyance of not really telling the truth / The itching of jealousy / The skin that can see / The resentment of someone you love / The rage/ The numbness of scrolling down / The irritation of losing a thread of thoughts. Cnaani, Ofri. Quantified Self, digital image, 2020.