Timo Seber – Big Daddy, Techies #1 #5

Timo Seber – Big Daddy, Techies #1 #5

A t-shirt of stiff leather is imprinted with the digital interface of a videogame. ‘Big Daddy’ takes its title from the self-selected user name of the 22 year-old star of Dota 2, which with over 11 million players is at present the biggest online strategy game. The imprint of a screenshot on an animal skin, which takes on the form of armor for online players, breaks through the barrier between the digital sphere and the physical body of the player. The cohesion of the online community of Big Daddy and his millions of fans feeds on the repeated rehearsal of their identities as digital fighters and athletes. Emphatically, Timo Seber is commenting, with his fictional armor and the possibilities of fitness he presents, on the disembodiment of digital sport.