Immortal Clickstream

In this project, Bilby uses his browser history as source material for a series of mixed media works exploring meaning and identity. Embracing his individual ‘algorithm’, images from his internet searches are archived, collated, then re-interpreted into juxtaposed elements forming non-linear relationships. Numerous digital and hand-rendered layers reveal a swirl of cultural, historical, and philosophical references and complexities of subjectivity in a world overflowing with data and indiscriminate visual noise.

A contradiction between the contemplative and the embarrassingly flippant becomes apparent. How, for instance, does one stray from heartfelt research on brain cancer – to what’s the best beach in Torquay – or moments later – where to buy new runners? In tackling such awkward anomalies, Immortal Clickstream evokes a sense of uncertainty – yet exuberance – in the face of a fragmented world and self.

The series was exhibited at the RMIT Gossard Space, with artist notes and sketches attached to the rear of each piece, and an accompanying installation re-emphasising themes of entanglement and connection.