Abstract
The movement from physical to digital desktop entails a ‘process of reorientation’ which not only reshapes our notion of space but also our sense of ‘gesturality’ and the ‘situatedness’ of our bodies. This is also what may have inspired me to redirect my interest back to the physical desk in this video essay. I wanted to have the overlooked physical desk reappear, but to have it reappear – paradoxically – within a digital format which is experienced precisely not on a horizontal desk but on a vertical screen. My video essay is both a desktop documentary and it is not.
Binotto, Johannes