Moles (2019/1999)

A personal project in the form of  augmented reality using moles as both theme and navigational device. 

Moles is a meditation on moles, self-exams, and skin cancer. I began the project twenty years ago as the Internet was emerging as a unique space for artistic creation. I used my moles, the unique marks on my body, as a navigational device for an interactive autobiographical web documentary. Each mole was connected to a story and formed part of a personal constellation.  Now, twenty years later I revisit the project in an era of virtual and augmented reality. Both the technological affordances and my story constellation have changed.  In Moles 2019 I explore the risks of melanoma. My parents are dealing with skin cancer and I am grappling with my aging body, my changing moles and what it means to revisit a past project. What do my moles  tell me about personal and technological mutations? How does technology inform our ability to narrate personal stories – what is missing, what is left out, what mutates over time?