The Mass Delusion

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The Mass Delusion is my BA final year project where I explored how our usage of the Internet shape our values and behaviours. What the Internet can both give and take from us is “memory”, we embrace Google and Wikipedia for being a knowledge depot. The tendency to such reliance is gradually reducing our commitment to memorise -- we filter information and dump it when we find it useless without contemplation, using the Internet as our external brain. If we lose our minds to the digital, then what makes the difference between human and machine?

TRAPPED IN FREEDOM is a publication that tells the story of how our utilisation of the Net is affecting our memories/reminiscence. The book consists of text written by myself, quotes from writers and scholars and definitions of terms used.

Documentation photos taken with the help of Seewhy Ng
A0 poster
A3 posters introducing the context of the project
Collection of postcards (front & back)
Trapped In Freedom book set
Preface booklet: providing context and guidelines of reading the book
Excerpts of the book
The book consists of a lot of opening pages and is layered with different sizes of papers, imitating an Internet browsing experience.
Neon green corner sticker indicates the inserted pages can be opened
Some excerpts of graphics used in the book
Stickers used in the book