Smartphonocentrism: the voice as detritus in video art

The original contribution to knowledge of this project is a generative strategy for a video art practice in response to the declining importance of the voice in relation to the smartphone. While speech may no longer be the primary form of communication associated with smartphones, such devices continue to exert a profound influence on our behavioural patterns. The research coins the term "smartphonocentrism" to explore a hitherto unexamined premise that algorithms, set to listen by default, constitute a new form of spectrality comparable to the omnipresence of the offscreen voice in film sound theory. Through re-framing the unseen voice as a visual problem within scenarios that juxtapose it with (physical) manifestations of detritus, this project considers the indiscriminate omnipresence assigned to unseen voices as an ill-fated impetus towards "immateriality".