The project was initiated in 2010 when Jeroen van Loon started his research by traveling to areas representing the extreme opposites of our possibility to access to internet. Varying from a village in West Papua, where nobody had heard of the concept internet to the bustling metropolis of Singapore, where internet controls society. Here and everything in between he interviewed people he met on his travels. He asked each person to hand write a letter describing the influence of access to internet on his or her daily life. By looking at our digital world through the traditional technique of handwritten letters, we discover original and personal stories which portray our global digitalization.

In eight steps the installation show the growing influence of digital media on different cultures and one's personal life. Life Needs Internet is not meant to criticize to digitalization, it leaves the question on ‘good or bad’ open, for the public to decide for themselves. But it does discuss a ‘digital awareness’, awareness about time, technology, digital slavery, society, information, generations and ‘why-oh-why’ we keep turning on that screen.

In short, does life need internet?

Life Needs Internet VIMEO : http://vimeo.com/32456109