I was commissioned by Sparked Echo as a part of Electric Medway 2021 to create an installation about Medway based cult The Jezreelites, Imagining what they would be like brought into the 21st Century. Having a strong interest in the naïveté of the public first getting to grips with accepting computers in the late 90s and early 2000s as a part of daily life, I housed in Gillingham Library a CRT monitor to display an early-internet style website I built for the group, embracing the free from “cringe” baby steps of self expression through web presence that bloomed from that era.

(The cursor turns from 🎺 to ➕whenever you are reading an exact quote from the group)

The Installation also includes a target tracking AR filter of the groups leader James Jezreel reimagined as Clippy the Microsoft Paperclip, offering Jezreel quotes when the screen is pressed.

“1885 was the year drunken religious leader James Jezreel had pinned to complete his magnum opus – an impressive tower atop Chatham Hill for him and his followers to wait out the apocalypse. This may seem far fetched but history repeats itself. Unique world climates breed both people wanting something to believe in and people using fake news and recruitment tactics to buy into something (or even just buy something) under the guise of doing what’s right for themselves and the world.

This all begs the question – what would the Jezreelites be like today?

Come and explore the world of misinformation and augmented reality”