Gamma Intel ╚═ Future Intel x Nerve Collect ═╗ 29 02 2024

Future casts from the present — your weekly music and art intel — Streaming live on Youtube every Thursday Head to https://futureintelradio.com/ for the full archive. Art by; Eli Hooper Maslow’s Pyramid is part of a series of visual experiments that aim to explore how the contemporary digital landscape colours and changes our notions of home and belonging, notions often grounded within nostalgia. An extension from Hooper’s previous work, Arcadia, FL, Maslow’s Pyramid continues the research and experiments previously conducted with bitmaps, methods of image compression, and AI generation to research the influence of current technology in the construction of nostalgia and our retrospective realities. Eli Hooper (b. 2000) is a New Zealand born, Rotterdam based maker currently exploring the cross-pollination between media, mass popular culture, and the digitisation of nostalgia. While he works primarily in photography, his practice branches out into a whole range of other media, from audio-visual experiments to sculptural endeavours, in order to develop a visual language and red thread that lines his being. Largely founded on image and sound-based research, Eli is using both practical and non-conventional printing, recording, and display methods to challenge the way we consider not only the image pool, but the mass-archiving and consumption of media around us. Instagram: eli.hoopr Website: https://elihooper.com/