Illustration
Side Effects of Being Online
- Year
- 2026
- Category
- Illustration
- Medium
- Motion posters — digital illustration, animation and sound, 2000 × 2800
Overview
Five animated posters on what the internet quietly takes
Side Effects of Being Online
Five animated posters on what the internet quietly takes
5 posters · sound on · 2026A set briefed on the disadvantages of the internet, made as five painted posters that move and carry their own score. Each one holds a single ordinary moment — a night shift of scrolling, a grandmother talking to the tops of heads, a street crossed without looking up — and lets the sound finish the sentence. Best watched with the volume on.
4:12 AM0:11 — with sound 01 / 054:12 AM
The night gives up before the feed does.
Two women side by side in a purple-lit room, feeds open, dawn already leaking through the blinds. The clock is the only thing in the frame keeping time.
Dinner, Interrupted0:11 — with sound 02 / 05Dinner, Interrupted
She is telling a story to the tops of five heads.
A grandmother mid-sentence at the family table, hands open, while the phone face-up beside the plate holds the room's attention.
Right Past It0:11 — with sound 03 / 05Right Past It
A whole street happens off-screen.
A man walks the kerb with his face in his phone. Behind him, a dog lies still in the road. Nothing about his pace changes.
Reference Body0:09 — with sound 04 / 05Reference Body
The mirror learned its standards somewhere else.
A man in front of a mirror with a wall of downloaded torsos taped above him, seeing a body that was never his to begin with.
Inside the Box0:10 — with sound 05 / 05Inside the Box
The scroll became the room.
A figure stands inside a phone-shaped gallery, hands on hips, facing an endless grid of saved images — every one of them somebody else's idea.
Motion posters — digital illustration, animation and sound, 2000 × 2800