Zoey Knipstein
WHEN I’M GONE IT’LL BE ONLINE is a group show exhitbited on October 6th through October 17th, 2025 in the Pratt Institute Photography Gallery curated by Zoey Knipstein.
WHEN IM GONE IT’LL BE ONLINE.
It's undeniable that we are living through a myriad of messy transitional periods in technology, and no matter how much one may reject it, you must adhere to the web throughout your everyday life in order to survive and assimilate. Is this a lifestyle of quality or condition? The internet is like lead and it's like cigarettes.It’s unique in its appearance, but similar in its authority. The internet is powerful and distinguishable, and it has wedged itself into our daily practices, hoping we won't leave it behind. It has become ingrained in our insatiable search for being, and immortalized every moment of our lives in flashing images, one after the other. Can you really die if your whole life remains online?
Having reached a stage of crazed nuance, we are now all a little bit of everything. We live in every timezone. When I seek contact through a glass box, I can feel your eyes reading the screen, and it's almost like we're together. I could type for hours, it almost feels like my loved one through digital words; like i'm holding someone. Constantly satiated, it's the extreme power in information, there is such a need to gain and spread information. This life is lived through the basis of information.
In our current day, it is common to view a large handful of content in a very short period of time and find yourself unable to recollect what you saw. This formula pushes the world on, and the world is being chained to the rack and assembled like binary code. We take it head on, full throttle, never looking back.
I fear the absence of tangibility. Our ability to exist is dependent on a collection of pixels. Our bodies exist in a digital space, but as much as we are computerized, we still remain as flesh. What would someone become today if their life didn’t reside online? Is there a lack of agency? No definition?
Do your eyes feel just as heavy as mine? Do you ever snap out of it for a second, and don’t direct your eyes towards something and just blankly stare out, unable to collect yourself; collect yourself for what?
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Don’t waste your time, surely something better will be on its way tomorrow. There's always going to be something better.
Written by Zoey Knipstein
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