Daniel Scanlon

"On iPhone" - Video, iPod as postmodern fetish object.

"The work ties into the theme of Content And In The Making. I sat down and animated this cartoonish version of me… on iPhone. I definitely made some choices that allowed me to whip something together in a shorter amount of time. I wanted to be done with it, and feel the pleasure of completing the video under some time limitation, assuring a more immediate satisfaction. That urge to swipe and tap feels like opening a fridge out of habit, and every so often the sudden wave of shame creeps up on you and you feel so banal that you have to turn your phone off and throw it away." (Scanlon, 2024)

Daniel draws inspiration from 90s-2000s video games (Nintendo, Sega, etc),Modern and postmodern architects, and 3d artists like Alex.fbx or nam.mac.