Human Interference

Delays, pixelation, missing sound – who hasn’t experienced video call issues over the last year? In a soothing retro-tech instruction video, ‘Human Interference’ offers advice on how we can cover technical hiccups by adopting the strategies of TV news presenters live on location. Pauses, slow speech, fake backgrounds and chit chat are all handy tools to overcome random latency as the algorithms unscramble or the signal returns. Using stop motion animation and 90s computer manual cut-outs, Daan Colussi gives a nostalgic nod to the glitchy hurdles we’ve already overcome. We are reminded that although communication technology may support us, we support it too, altering our behaviour to compensate for its awkward growing pains.