What happens next is eagerly anticipated. The group is mobilising creative minds in the local community and beyond. Since the event, the De La Warr Pavilion Young Creatives group has doubled in size with new members joining the collective. A label he feels is taken for granted by his peers who play out a life online, leaving footprints that no tide of digital noise will wash away. He wonders why more people his age aren’t questioning their assigned label ‘digital natives’. His portrait remains as a fixed selfie but the backgrounds to his life change. His current project: taking 365 photographs using an app on his phone. From a ‘dodge the camera’ make-up workshop inspired by the Dazzle ships of World War II to digital disruption using glitch art apps and analogue screenprinting techniques, the activities explored identity, privacy and surveillance in the offline and online world.Ī participant in the event tells me he was “born into the world of social media” a ‘digital native’. The event, lead by the Young Creatives, featured a series of playful workshop stations interrogating the topic of facial recognition technology and identity. The group drew upon central themes of youth identity, representation and visibility in the films currently on show in an interactive exhibition till 2 January.ĭatamoshing is a term coined to describe the process whereby digital images and video are intentionally manipulated or ‘glitched’ to create a fragmented, distorted and obscured effect.

On 1 December they lead their first event at De La Warr Pavilion, entitled Datamoshing, which was developed in response to the Playback touring exhibition of over 200 films made by young filmmakers across the country. They are supported by the Pavilion and feedback on and inform the programme of exhibitions and events. The De La Warr Pavilion Young Creatives are a collective of young people with an interest in many different areas of creative practice.

Datamosh a video online