“In Between Circles” is an audiovisual installation comprising stop motion sequences and sounds representing my own digital footprint in discussion with topics of media assault and paralysis, displacement of self and the disembodied/ in betweenness of natural and digital. It is essentially the first of the later peice, "BrainForest". The visual sequences draw from a varied mix of personal internet tabs and phone screen/ social media captures, commercials, magazine and newspaper cutouts, and personal photos. A lot of the content ranged from marketing imagery and advertisements, current news stories and videos, pornography, absurd internet trends and memes, and snippets from celebrity social media posts. All of this imagery is transcribed through a scanner, an important aspect in terms of communicating displacement. Everything is then heavily layered, compressed and distorted to the point of abstraction together in Photoshop. Similarly, the sound is sourced from personal field recordings, commercial soundtracks, videos found on different social media apps, and stills from the stop motion sequences converted into audio files. Some of these audio sources are also processed through a granular synthesizer in VCV Rack, another layer of displacing and processing audio files into unfamiliar/ possibly unfit realms. Additionally, different pieces of fabric and translucent materials are hung in the space to further distort the imagery on display and represent its transcription into a pixelated realm. They also serve to disorient the viewer even further. Lastly, different monitors such as the analog television, the flat screen monitor and the iPhone’s and iPad’s trace a sort of genealogy of video and image technologies. Overall, the piece seeks to immerse the viewer in this barrage of media in order to illustrate the uneasy and confusing interplay between living on and offline in contemporary times and question any meaning or significance behind the loops and echo chambers we find ourselves in.