Body Electric (2024)

A rework of the new iPhone 15 commercial featuring a singing wall socket. In place of the machine loneliness of the original, a different song from the early Vito Acconci playbook. A direct address to the viewer/listener from a virtual assistant. The new ambient intelligence promises security, rapid response, predictive analysis, microgeneration, efficiency. Here it delivers funwashing messages from the cloud for users in a performative essay on domotics. Talk back from the data harvest and Orwell’s “never sleeping ear.” To challenge them is to “fight the future.”

If you liked Body Electric, you might also like…

93% match

Ex Machina

2015

88% match

Swan Song

2021

83% match

Jexi

2019

79% match

Hardball

2001

75% match

Paycheck

2003

73% match

Early to Bed

1941

67% match

Terminator Genisys

2015

64% match

Fast Girls

2012

64% match

Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

1983

60% match

Hackers

1995

60% match

Thunderstruck

2012

60% match

Bill & Ted Face the Music

2020

60% match

Tom & Jerry

2021

60% match

Little

2019

60% match

Putney Swope

1969

60% match

Inner Workings

2016

60% match

The Beautiful Game

2024

60% match

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

2026

60% match

Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

2007

60% match

BlackBerry

2023