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communication void

The rapid transmutation of technology enables us to experience the world indirectly much of the time. Today, as it becomes less possible to exist without new modes of technological communication —cellular phones, global positioning systems, portable computers, Youtube and Skype— through them we are able to transcend the limits of our physical beings experiencing virtual co-existence in multiple geographic locations at once. These advances in technology provide an expanded connectedness to disparate people and places, reflective of the interpersonal connections we sense through interactions in our immediate geographical proximity. Through the implementation and use of new means of technological communication, our collective self-image has become illusory and inflated as we imagine ourselves to be more than we are through these projections. Current communications technologies connect us to each other, enabling us to transmit and receive messages. The connectedness we experience through the use of these technologies exacerbates an issue of human interaction, which exists on a more fundamental level. Our continued use of these tools accentuates the predominant failure of human beings to successfully engage in even the most basic communication. The attempts of one individual to convey a thought, feeling, intention to another will inevitably result in failure through (mis)interpretation. Both the sender and recipient of a communication have developed their own associations with words and language through each subjectʼs own individual life experience. Meaning can both originate from and lead to completely dissimilar, even conflicting understandings. We cannot succeed in the accurate transmission and reception of communication amongst each other, yet we perceive that we are communicating. The communications we perceive ourselves to be engaging in are a result of our own prior experience. Communication intended or perceived is defined by interpretation from the void of our subconscious. This void lies between us and the others with whom we attempt to communicate. Today, the implementation of new devices for technological communication become additional mediators, interferences, which emphasize the futility of communication amongst each other. Successful communication relies on accuracy. The current state of communication through technology is distortion.  The void is communication.