A blinking smile – a face frozen in time. That moment where you know you missed something or caught something that was not meant to be seen…

Our frustrations with the fallibility of the internet play out in Nicola Morton‘s Bad Internet. In this series of video and audio recordings, Morton uses Zoom to document performances by artists Kate Brown and Mark Brown. These disjointed records ask the viewer to find beauty in the degraded artefact.

Bad Internet furthers Morton’s process of modifying performance documentation based on the strength of the Wi-Fi connection at the scene of capture.

This series was commissioned by Our Neon Foe and presented as part of No Show.

Nicola Morton - Bad internet Call #2 (Mark Brown)

I discovered a love of glitches and what they could sybmolise in perfomance recording a few years ago. in my 'wirelesspsychics' series.  Here is a preview of a processed recording of Kate Brown's 'Echo Interna Ripetere' for NO SHOW, Carriagworks, Feb 12 - Mar 7 2021.

'Bad Internet' by Nicola Morton (preview)

from 'Bad Internet' series previewing for Our Neon Foe at NO SHOW at Carriageworks.

find the beauty in a bad internet connection, a glitchy internet call made during Kate Brown's 'Echo Interna Ripetere' performance.

Nicola Morton 'Bad Internet Call #1 (Kate Brown'

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