Seven Daze' is a fragmented, week-long visual diary that charts the algorithmic encounter of my Instafeed. Composed of daily video captures assembled from a self reflected stream of digital detritus—AI animations, pop-up ads, browsing remnants and text fragments woven with animated GIFs—the work reflects the fluid, often incoherent rhythms of life lived online. Each day's montage is tethered to song samples whose title echoes the mood or marker of that day (from the Boomtown Rats ‘I Don’t Like Mondays,’ to ‘Sunday Morning’ by the Velvet Underground), looping fleeting media moments into an immutable, cyclical structure. Drawing on strategies of digital collage and capturing the impermanent, 'Seven Daze' explores how identity is refracted through platforms designed for speed, surveillance, consumption, and erasure.

ABOUT THE ARTIST Michael Alstad is an artist and independent curator working in installation and digital media with a focus on architectural and public space. His work encompasses a diverse range of media including video, installation, photography, networked art, locative media and research based practice. Many of Michael’s projects share a common thread – a method of inquiry into the built environment by close observation, research and consideration of the context/history of place. His web, video, installation, and photo based works have been included in many international media arts festivals, on-line exhibitions, galleries and public sites. Michael is a founding member of the Canadian artist collective Year Zero One where he has curated numerous projects in the 00’s including the award winning TXTilecity & Queerstory locative history apps and Terminal Zero One – the first digital interactive networked art exhibition at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.