Coming_Of_Age (2020) - Generative Code

 

I am at a place in my life when I should be going out into the world. I should be getting a job and moving out. The Covid-19 pandemic has forced me to stay home, cancelled in-person school during my last semester of college, and made it nearly impossible for me to find a job. I can’t get a job in the field I want to, since most are closed or barely scraping by. The places that are hiring have risky workplace environments; and I cannot risk exposing my family, but I can’t move out without a job. With all this extra time, I and much of my generation have increased our social media use. I keep seeing video montages people have made of themselves and their friends before quarantine. This odd disconnect between life, exploration, and computer screens is what I hope to show with this experimental animation. The audio is from the well-known coming of age film “Stand by Me.” The animation is created by generative code based on pixel data from the video clip.