Turmoil image. About the cumulative memory of video-image

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https://doi.org/10.24310/umatica.2025.v8i8.21283

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social media, image consumption, video, memory, intermedia art
Agencies: UPV/EHU, AKMEKA

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Turmoil image is an immersive compilation of fragments of memories after the act of scrolling down a vertical video-base social media. The interaction with the phone as a device of image consumption leaves the user with mixed feelings because of the superposition of time and space: everything is happening everywhere all at once and it’s a rhythm that affects us. There’s a bittersweetness to it, something that keeps us stuck in the scroll. The images we touch become attached to us, but always as an already fading memory. Enchanted by this image based memory, the turmoil image is something that makes us confused, but at the same time, we can’t stop watching. We have become used to everything being in perpetual movement, always on loop — there are multiple videos being played right now somewhere near us. This visual essay pretends to generate questions on how the vertical video era is affecting our sense of memory: what happens between the video-image and the conscience?

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Libe Belandia Juaristi, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

Libe Belandia (Leioa, 1994), UPV/EHU, AKMEKA IT 1638-22. Graduada en el Grado en Arte con la mención en Arte, Media y Tecnología y Máster en Arte Contemporáneo, Tecnológico y Performativo, ambos en la UPV/EHU, donde actualmente está haciendo su doctorado en Investigación en Arte Contemporáneo. Es artista visual y sonora, performer y música autodidacta bajo el pseudónimo Liben Svaart. Trabaja en el ámbito audiovisual y performativo desde la sensibilidad, desde lo infraleve. Desde 2020 trabaja en la investigación “fuego”, examinando nuestra relación con los teléfonos móviles inteligentes y cómo nos afectan como sociedad. Desde un enfoque teórico-práctico, investiga los espacios intermedia entre imagen, vídeo y arte a través del acceso masivo al contenido de vídeo vertical que han supuesto las redes sociales.

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Published

2025-12-07

How to Cite

Belandia Juaristi, L. (2025). Turmoil image. About the cumulative memory of video-image. UMÁTICA. Journal on Image Creation and Analysis, 8(8). https://doi.org/10.24310/umatica.2025.v8i8.21283