

INTERACTIVE

It's Only Human
VOL. 1
SHORTS
Content Warning: Flashing/strobe lights
FURQAN JAWED
Like having the imagination to envision oblivion. And make it reality.
Special Thanks to: Varshini Prakash.
Narration by: Jessica Flemming
EDITOR'S NOTE: This multimedia piece, by graphic designer and artist Furqan Jawed, is the result of a collaborative effort, initially conceptualized as a story about the history of advertising & fossil fuel companies’ manipulation of the public across the world. It took place over a number of months, supplemented by reminiscences and stream-of-consciousness ideas by Varshini Prakash, co-founder and Executive Director of the Sunrise Movement, as well as exchange with editors Vishakha Darbha & Kamil Ahsan. Furqan plumbed the archives of advertising across a number of decades in India and the United States. The product was, at the time, an unanticipated, serendipitous, and surprising product of an inquisitive but seemingly-directionless collaboration.
SUB-HEAD
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:
Our priority is to meet the needs of people on this planet. Not just workers. Not workers at all.


Shorts
Climate Change
Fossil Fuel Companies
Advertising
Electoral Politics
Multimedia
Multimodal
Sunrise Movement
Neoliberalism
Performance Art
Mimesis
Anthropocene
Satire
Voiceover
India
United States
Archiving
Archival Practice
Reminiscence
Public History
FURQAN JAWED is a freelance artist and graphic designer based in Brooklyn. A recent MFA graduate from the Yale School of Art, his practice focuses on the circulation of images and analysing the semiotics of representation within these images in the public and the private sphere.