Parasocial

Sensitive Content: Abstract homophobic insults, references to suicide

by Sam Rhodehamel

A reflection on the way people communicating online do not view each other as real people. Overlaying a conversation had with ai, feeding it questions + real hate messages I’ve received on the internet over photos of my daily life as a real normal person (taken while testing a new camera) to contrast how I felt I was being treated as a non-feeling non-human entity by strangers.

Sam Rhodehamel is a Los Angeles-born Goldsmiths Sociology Alumni. His artistic interests include digital culture, dream analysis, and his friends and family. He can be found on Instagram at @tvcowboy.