The Paradox of Remote Mitte

The Paradox of Remote Mitte:

As I decompress from what was one of the coolest experiences of my life, my mind is flooded with feelings, thoughts and suggestions about Remote Mitte. The thing that has been lingering in my mind the most is the Paradoxical effect remote Mitte had on me and hopefully all of us. I think the experience challenged us to be present in a world and people beginning to function like a simulation with the influx of technological advancements we’ve made. We observed people in a way the normal pedestrian would not, we were asked to ponder death and our relationships with other human beings. I’m sure it was refreshing and different for most people taking part in it as it was for me. But the paradox of this experience is that we needed technology to look at the world this way. We needed that voice in our ear comforting the notion of just looking at a passenger on the train. We trusted this voice and followed it as a conceit of the “show.” But what if it turned on us? What if it made us turn on each other? What if it made us ask questions about technology through experiencing where it can go wrong through it really going wrong? Remote Mitte began to ask these questions by only literally asking these questions, and the paradox being technology was the vehicle for us thinking about these things. For me, Remote Mitte played it safe and the work confused in terms of their focus point, But  I’m fascinated with this groundwork and the doors it may open in the future.