The Mnemosyne: inside Linn Phyllis Seeger's curated moodboard
March 18, 2026
Inspired by Aby Warburg’s titanic visual atlas, – the oldest form of moodboard to date – The Mnemosyne: inside curated moodboards is where we ask artists to walk us through their artistic research with an archive of visual bits (archived images, camera roll pictures, book pages, videos), to contrast algorithmic feeds and restore the fun in personally-curated visual boards.
true idle is the name of Linn Phyllis Seeger’s exhibition opening Wednesday, 18 March at Shipton. Showing the results of a residency in the London gallery, the artist explores – with a new body of work – the car as a poetic symbol: the emblem of a paradoxical movement that leads nowhere, much like our continuous spatial movement within digital ecosystems where chronological narratives lose meaning, and there are no destinations. In order to understand how the artist worked within and in collaboration with the ecosystem of the gallery, we asked Linn to talk us through the digital artefacts which inspired the process and research for the exhibition.
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story showing gameplay video of my failed attempt to steer a simulated racing car, posted on 27 January 2025. An edit of this gameplay video now appears in a new video sculpture as part of True Idle, my upcoming solo show at Shipton Gallery in London.
LPS: Screenshot of Instagram Story by @alwaysjudging, posted on 11 December 2025. While it's not exactly half of people's lives, U.S. citizens have, reportedly, been spending an average of 12 to 18 whole days per year in their cars, and UK citizens between 15 to 25 days. I've been interested in this extended state spent in between destinations: in transit, stuck in traffic, trying to get to work, or driving home, or on the way to a multitude of third places.
LPS: Screenshot of Library grid in iCloud Photos showing publicly accessible, live traffic footage from Californian Interstate highways, screen recorded on 19 January 2026. Also visible are images of prints I put up at Shipton Gallery during my studio residency from January to March 2026, showing screenshots of video taken of live reporting on U.S. wildfires. Filmed off a friend’s TV in Los Angeles and posted as an Instagram Story on 2 November 2019, printed on 31 October 2023 and later used as footage in The (Un)event, a 3-channel moving image installation debuting at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London on 29 April 2026.
LPS: Screenshot of video zooming in on passenger's iPhone screen on the London tube, with the interface of an online crossword game revealing the word ‘idle’ at the centre of the screen. Taken on 11 December 2020, then posted as an Instagram Story.
LPS: Screenshot of Dazed article featuring an image of Kim Kardashian scrolling on her phone, published on 25 April 2025, viewed on Safari on 5 February 2026. The article refers to recent U.S. and UK statistics according to which the average time spent on phone screens amounts to 88 days per year for millennials, and up to 120 days for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
LPS: Screenshot of Google Maps Immersive View rendering following a simulated drive along Northern Californian Interstate highways. Screen recording taken on 28 January 2025 at 3:51 pm GMT (00:00:02 of 00:00:38). Extract of video later appears in video sculpture no ideas but in things (2025).
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story depicting sun setting over Interstate highway, viewed through passenger’s rear-view mirror while leaving Los Angeles. Experienced from the passenger seat, the drive becomes less of a navigational act than a cinematic spectacle: “[T]he [...] monotonous future-scape of a […] motorway as perceived by a human being from within the sound-proofed shell and movie-like screen of a late 20th century motor car.” Paul O’Kane, Technologies of Romance — Part II (eeodo, 2018), 17.
Inspired by Aby Warburg’s titanic visual atlas, – the oldest form of moodboard to date – The Mnemosyne: inside curated moodboards is where we ask artists to walk us through their artistic research with an archive of visual bits (archived images, camera roll pictures, book pages, videos), to contrast algorithmic feeds and restore the fun in personally-curated visual boards.
true idle is the name of Linn Phyllis Seeger’s exhibition opening Wednesday, 18 March at Shipton. Showing the results of a residency in the London gallery, the artist explores – with a new body of work – the car as a poetic symbol: the emblem of a paradoxical movement that leads nowhere, much like our continuous spatial movement within digital ecosystems where chronological narratives lose meaning, and there are no destinations. In order to understand how the artist worked within and in collaboration with the ecosystem of the gallery, we asked Linn to talk us through the digital artefacts which inspired the process and research for the exhibition.
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story showing gameplay video of my failed attempt to steer a simulated racing car, posted on 27 January 2025. An edit of this gameplay video now appears in a new video sculpture as part of True Idle, my upcoming solo show at Shipton Gallery in London.
LPS: Screenshot of Instagram Story by @alwaysjudging, posted on 11 December 2025. While it's not exactly half of people's lives, U.S. citizens have, reportedly, been spending an average of 12 to 18 whole days per year in their cars, and UK citizens between 15 to 25 days. I've been interested in this extended state spent in between destinations: in transit, stuck in traffic, trying to get to work, or driving home, or on the way to a multitude of third places.
LPS: Screenshot of Library grid in iCloud Photos showing publicly accessible, live traffic footage from Californian Interstate highways, screen recorded on 19 January 2026. Also visible are images of prints I put up at Shipton Gallery during my studio residency from January to March 2026, showing screenshots of video taken of live reporting on U.S. wildfires. Filmed off a friend’s TV in Los Angeles and posted as an Instagram Story on 2 November 2019, printed on 31 October 2023 and later used as footage in The (Un)event, a 3-channel moving image installation debuting at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London on 29 April 2026.
LPS: Screenshot of video zooming in on passenger's iPhone screen on the London tube, with the interface of an online crossword game revealing the word ‘idle’ at the centre of the screen. Taken on 11 December 2020, then posted as an Instagram Story.
LPS: Screenshot of Dazed article featuring an image of Kim Kardashian scrolling on her phone, published on 25 April 2025, viewed on Safari on 5 February 2026. The article refers to recent U.S. and UK statistics according to which the average time spent on phone screens amounts to 88 days per year for millennials, and up to 120 days for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
LPS: Screenshot of Google Maps Immersive View rendering following a simulated drive along Northern Californian Interstate highways. Screen recording taken on 28 January 2025 at 3:51 pm GMT (00:00:02 of 00:00:38). Extract of video later appears in video sculpture no ideas but in things (2025).
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story depicting sun setting over Interstate highway, viewed through passenger’s rear-view mirror while leaving Los Angeles. Experienced from the passenger seat, the drive becomes less of a navigational act than a cinematic spectacle: “[T]he [...] monotonous future-scape of a […] motorway as perceived by a human being from within the sound-proofed shell and movie-like screen of a late 20th century motor car.” Paul O’Kane, Technologies of Romance — Part II (eeodo, 2018), 17.
Inspired by Aby Warburg’s titanic visual atlas, – the oldest form of moodboard to date – The Mnemosyne: inside curated moodboards is where we ask artists to walk us through their artistic research with an archive of visual bits (archived images, camera roll pictures, book pages, videos), to contrast algorithmic feeds and restore the fun in personally-curated visual boards.
true idle is the name of Linn Phyllis Seeger’s exhibition opening Wednesday, 18 March at Shipton. Showing the results of a residency in the London gallery, the artist explores – with a new body of work – the car as a poetic symbol: the emblem of a paradoxical movement that leads nowhere, much like our continuous spatial movement within digital ecosystems where chronological narratives lose meaning, and there are no destinations. In order to understand how the artist worked within and in collaboration with the ecosystem of the gallery, we asked Linn to talk us through the digital artefacts which inspired the process and research for the exhibition.
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story showing gameplay video of my failed attempt to steer a simulated racing car, posted on 27 January 2025. An edit of this gameplay video now appears in a new video sculpture as part of True Idle, my upcoming solo show at Shipton Gallery in London.
LPS: Screenshot of Instagram Story by @alwaysjudging, posted on 11 December 2025. While it's not exactly half of people's lives, U.S. citizens have, reportedly, been spending an average of 12 to 18 whole days per year in their cars, and UK citizens between 15 to 25 days. I've been interested in this extended state spent in between destinations: in transit, stuck in traffic, trying to get to work, or driving home, or on the way to a multitude of third places.
LPS: Screenshot of Library grid in iCloud Photos showing publicly accessible, live traffic footage from Californian Interstate highways, screen recorded on 19 January 2026. Also visible are images of prints I put up at Shipton Gallery during my studio residency from January to March 2026, showing screenshots of video taken of live reporting on U.S. wildfires. Filmed off a friend’s TV in Los Angeles and posted as an Instagram Story on 2 November 2019, printed on 31 October 2023 and later used as footage in The (Un)event, a 3-channel moving image installation debuting at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London on 29 April 2026.
LPS: Screenshot of video zooming in on passenger's iPhone screen on the London tube, with the interface of an online crossword game revealing the word ‘idle’ at the centre of the screen. Taken on 11 December 2020, then posted as an Instagram Story.
LPS: Screenshot of Dazed article featuring an image of Kim Kardashian scrolling on her phone, published on 25 April 2025, viewed on Safari on 5 February 2026. The article refers to recent U.S. and UK statistics according to which the average time spent on phone screens amounts to 88 days per year for millennials, and up to 120 days for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
LPS: Screenshot of Google Maps Immersive View rendering following a simulated drive along Northern Californian Interstate highways. Screen recording taken on 28 January 2025 at 3:51 pm GMT (00:00:02 of 00:00:38). Extract of video later appears in video sculpture no ideas but in things (2025).
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story depicting sun setting over Interstate highway, viewed through passenger’s rear-view mirror while leaving Los Angeles. Experienced from the passenger seat, the drive becomes less of a navigational act than a cinematic spectacle: “[T]he [...] monotonous future-scape of a […] motorway as perceived by a human being from within the sound-proofed shell and movie-like screen of a late 20th century motor car.” Paul O’Kane, Technologies of Romance — Part II (eeodo, 2018), 17.
Inspired by Aby Warburg’s titanic visual atlas, – the oldest form of moodboard to date – The Mnemosyne: inside curated moodboards is where we ask artists to walk us through their artistic research with an archive of visual bits (archived images, camera roll pictures, book pages, videos), to contrast algorithmic feeds and restore the fun in personally-curated visual boards.
true idle is the name of Linn Phyllis Seeger’s exhibition opening Wednesday, 18 March at Shipton. Showing the results of a residency in the London gallery, the artist explores – with a new body of work – the car as a poetic symbol: the emblem of a paradoxical movement that leads nowhere, much like our continuous spatial movement within digital ecosystems where chronological narratives lose meaning, and there are no destinations. In order to understand how the artist worked within and in collaboration with the ecosystem of the gallery, we asked Linn to talk us through the digital artefacts which inspired the process and research for the exhibition.
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story showing gameplay video of my failed attempt to steer a simulated racing car, posted on 27 January 2025. An edit of this gameplay video now appears in a new video sculpture as part of True Idle, my upcoming solo show at Shipton Gallery in London.
LPS: Screenshot of Instagram Story by @alwaysjudging, posted on 11 December 2025. While it's not exactly half of people's lives, U.S. citizens have, reportedly, been spending an average of 12 to 18 whole days per year in their cars, and UK citizens between 15 to 25 days. I've been interested in this extended state spent in between destinations: in transit, stuck in traffic, trying to get to work, or driving home, or on the way to a multitude of third places.
LPS: Screenshot of Library grid in iCloud Photos showing publicly accessible, live traffic footage from Californian Interstate highways, screen recorded on 19 January 2026. Also visible are images of prints I put up at Shipton Gallery during my studio residency from January to March 2026, showing screenshots of video taken of live reporting on U.S. wildfires. Filmed off a friend’s TV in Los Angeles and posted as an Instagram Story on 2 November 2019, printed on 31 October 2023 and later used as footage in The (Un)event, a 3-channel moving image installation debuting at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London on 29 April 2026.
LPS: Screenshot of video zooming in on passenger's iPhone screen on the London tube, with the interface of an online crossword game revealing the word ‘idle’ at the centre of the screen. Taken on 11 December 2020, then posted as an Instagram Story.
LPS: Screenshot of Dazed article featuring an image of Kim Kardashian scrolling on her phone, published on 25 April 2025, viewed on Safari on 5 February 2026. The article refers to recent U.S. and UK statistics according to which the average time spent on phone screens amounts to 88 days per year for millennials, and up to 120 days for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
LPS: Screenshot of Google Maps Immersive View rendering following a simulated drive along Northern Californian Interstate highways. Screen recording taken on 28 January 2025 at 3:51 pm GMT (00:00:02 of 00:00:38). Extract of video later appears in video sculpture no ideas but in things (2025).
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story depicting sun setting over Interstate highway, viewed through passenger’s rear-view mirror while leaving Los Angeles. Experienced from the passenger seat, the drive becomes less of a navigational act than a cinematic spectacle: “[T]he [...] monotonous future-scape of a […] motorway as perceived by a human being from within the sound-proofed shell and movie-like screen of a late 20th century motor car.” Paul O’Kane, Technologies of Romance — Part II (eeodo, 2018), 17.
Inspired by Aby Warburg’s titanic visual atlas, – the oldest form of moodboard to date – The Mnemosyne: inside curated moodboards is where we ask artists to walk us through their artistic research with an archive of visual bits (archived images, camera roll pictures, book pages, videos), to contrast algorithmic feeds and restore the fun in personally-curated visual boards.
true idle is the name of Linn Phyllis Seeger’s exhibition opening Wednesday, 18 March at Shipton. Showing the results of a residency in the London gallery, the artist explores – with a new body of work – the car as a poetic symbol: the emblem of a paradoxical movement that leads nowhere, much like our continuous spatial movement within digital ecosystems where chronological narratives lose meaning, and there are no destinations. In order to understand how the artist worked within and in collaboration with the ecosystem of the gallery, we asked Linn to talk us through the digital artefacts which inspired the process and research for the exhibition.
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story showing gameplay video of my failed attempt to steer a simulated racing car, posted on 27 January 2025. An edit of this gameplay video now appears in a new video sculpture as part of True Idle, my upcoming solo show at Shipton Gallery in London.
LPS: Screenshot of Instagram Story by @alwaysjudging, posted on 11 December 2025. While it's not exactly half of people's lives, U.S. citizens have, reportedly, been spending an average of 12 to 18 whole days per year in their cars, and UK citizens between 15 to 25 days. I've been interested in this extended state spent in between destinations: in transit, stuck in traffic, trying to get to work, or driving home, or on the way to a multitude of third places.
LPS: Screenshot of Library grid in iCloud Photos showing publicly accessible, live traffic footage from Californian Interstate highways, screen recorded on 19 January 2026. Also visible are images of prints I put up at Shipton Gallery during my studio residency from January to March 2026, showing screenshots of video taken of live reporting on U.S. wildfires. Filmed off a friend’s TV in Los Angeles and posted as an Instagram Story on 2 November 2019, printed on 31 October 2023 and later used as footage in The (Un)event, a 3-channel moving image installation debuting at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London on 29 April 2026.
LPS: Screenshot of video zooming in on passenger's iPhone screen on the London tube, with the interface of an online crossword game revealing the word ‘idle’ at the centre of the screen. Taken on 11 December 2020, then posted as an Instagram Story.
LPS: Screenshot of Dazed article featuring an image of Kim Kardashian scrolling on her phone, published on 25 April 2025, viewed on Safari on 5 February 2026. The article refers to recent U.S. and UK statistics according to which the average time spent on phone screens amounts to 88 days per year for millennials, and up to 120 days for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
LPS: Screenshot of Google Maps Immersive View rendering following a simulated drive along Northern Californian Interstate highways. Screen recording taken on 28 January 2025 at 3:51 pm GMT (00:00:02 of 00:00:38). Extract of video later appears in video sculpture no ideas but in things (2025).
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story depicting sun setting over Interstate highway, viewed through passenger’s rear-view mirror while leaving Los Angeles. Experienced from the passenger seat, the drive becomes less of a navigational act than a cinematic spectacle: “[T]he [...] monotonous future-scape of a […] motorway as perceived by a human being from within the sound-proofed shell and movie-like screen of a late 20th century motor car.” Paul O’Kane, Technologies of Romance — Part II (eeodo, 2018), 17.
Inspired by Aby Warburg’s titanic visual atlas, – the oldest form of moodboard to date – The Mnemosyne: inside curated moodboards is where we ask artists to walk us through their artistic research with an archive of visual bits (archived images, camera roll pictures, book pages, videos), to contrast algorithmic feeds and restore the fun in personally-curated visual boards.
true idle is the name of Linn Phyllis Seeger’s exhibition opening Wednesday, 18 March at Shipton. Showing the results of a residency in the London gallery, the artist explores – with a new body of work – the car as a poetic symbol: the emblem of a paradoxical movement that leads nowhere, much like our continuous spatial movement within digital ecosystems where chronological narratives lose meaning, and there are no destinations. In order to understand how the artist worked within and in collaboration with the ecosystem of the gallery, we asked Linn to talk us through the digital artefacts which inspired the process and research for the exhibition.
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story showing gameplay video of my failed attempt to steer a simulated racing car, posted on 27 January 2025. An edit of this gameplay video now appears in a new video sculpture as part of True Idle, my upcoming solo show at Shipton Gallery in London.
LPS: Screenshot of Instagram Story by @alwaysjudging, posted on 11 December 2025. While it's not exactly half of people's lives, U.S. citizens have, reportedly, been spending an average of 12 to 18 whole days per year in their cars, and UK citizens between 15 to 25 days. I've been interested in this extended state spent in between destinations: in transit, stuck in traffic, trying to get to work, or driving home, or on the way to a multitude of third places.
LPS: Screenshot of Library grid in iCloud Photos showing publicly accessible, live traffic footage from Californian Interstate highways, screen recorded on 19 January 2026. Also visible are images of prints I put up at Shipton Gallery during my studio residency from January to March 2026, showing screenshots of video taken of live reporting on U.S. wildfires. Filmed off a friend’s TV in Los Angeles and posted as an Instagram Story on 2 November 2019, printed on 31 October 2023 and later used as footage in The (Un)event, a 3-channel moving image installation debuting at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London on 29 April 2026.
LPS: Screenshot of video zooming in on passenger's iPhone screen on the London tube, with the interface of an online crossword game revealing the word ‘idle’ at the centre of the screen. Taken on 11 December 2020, then posted as an Instagram Story.
LPS: Screenshot of Dazed article featuring an image of Kim Kardashian scrolling on her phone, published on 25 April 2025, viewed on Safari on 5 February 2026. The article refers to recent U.S. and UK statistics according to which the average time spent on phone screens amounts to 88 days per year for millennials, and up to 120 days for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
LPS: Screenshot of Google Maps Immersive View rendering following a simulated drive along Northern Californian Interstate highways. Screen recording taken on 28 January 2025 at 3:51 pm GMT (00:00:02 of 00:00:38). Extract of video later appears in video sculpture no ideas but in things (2025).
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story depicting sun setting over Interstate highway, viewed through passenger’s rear-view mirror while leaving Los Angeles. Experienced from the passenger seat, the drive becomes less of a navigational act than a cinematic spectacle: “[T]he [...] monotonous future-scape of a […] motorway as perceived by a human being from within the sound-proofed shell and movie-like screen of a late 20th century motor car.” Paul O’Kane, Technologies of Romance — Part II (eeodo, 2018), 17.
Inspired by Aby Warburg’s titanic visual atlas, – the oldest form of moodboard to date – The Mnemosyne: inside curated moodboards is where we ask artists to walk us through their artistic research with an archive of visual bits (archived images, camera roll pictures, book pages, videos), to contrast algorithmic feeds and restore the fun in personally-curated visual boards.
true idle is the name of Linn Phyllis Seeger’s exhibition opening Wednesday, 18 March at Shipton. Showing the results of a residency in the London gallery, the artist explores – with a new body of work – the car as a poetic symbol: the emblem of a paradoxical movement that leads nowhere, much like our continuous spatial movement within digital ecosystems where chronological narratives lose meaning, and there are no destinations. In order to understand how the artist worked within and in collaboration with the ecosystem of the gallery, we asked Linn to talk us through the digital artefacts which inspired the process and research for the exhibition.
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story showing gameplay video of my failed attempt to steer a simulated racing car, posted on 27 January 2025. An edit of this gameplay video now appears in a new video sculpture as part of True Idle, my upcoming solo show at Shipton Gallery in London.
LPS: Screenshot of Instagram Story by @alwaysjudging, posted on 11 December 2025. While it's not exactly half of people's lives, U.S. citizens have, reportedly, been spending an average of 12 to 18 whole days per year in their cars, and UK citizens between 15 to 25 days. I've been interested in this extended state spent in between destinations: in transit, stuck in traffic, trying to get to work, or driving home, or on the way to a multitude of third places.
LPS: Screenshot of Library grid in iCloud Photos showing publicly accessible, live traffic footage from Californian Interstate highways, screen recorded on 19 January 2026. Also visible are images of prints I put up at Shipton Gallery during my studio residency from January to March 2026, showing screenshots of video taken of live reporting on U.S. wildfires. Filmed off a friend’s TV in Los Angeles and posted as an Instagram Story on 2 November 2019, printed on 31 October 2023 and later used as footage in The (Un)event, a 3-channel moving image installation debuting at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London on 29 April 2026.
LPS: Screenshot of video zooming in on passenger's iPhone screen on the London tube, with the interface of an online crossword game revealing the word ‘idle’ at the centre of the screen. Taken on 11 December 2020, then posted as an Instagram Story.
LPS: Screenshot of Dazed article featuring an image of Kim Kardashian scrolling on her phone, published on 25 April 2025, viewed on Safari on 5 February 2026. The article refers to recent U.S. and UK statistics according to which the average time spent on phone screens amounts to 88 days per year for millennials, and up to 120 days for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
LPS: Screenshot of Google Maps Immersive View rendering following a simulated drive along Northern Californian Interstate highways. Screen recording taken on 28 January 2025 at 3:51 pm GMT (00:00:02 of 00:00:38). Extract of video later appears in video sculpture no ideas but in things (2025).
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story depicting sun setting over Interstate highway, viewed through passenger’s rear-view mirror while leaving Los Angeles. Experienced from the passenger seat, the drive becomes less of a navigational act than a cinematic spectacle: “[T]he [...] monotonous future-scape of a […] motorway as perceived by a human being from within the sound-proofed shell and movie-like screen of a late 20th century motor car.” Paul O’Kane, Technologies of Romance — Part II (eeodo, 2018), 17.
Inspired by Aby Warburg’s titanic visual atlas, – the oldest form of moodboard to date – The Mnemosyne: inside curated moodboards is where we ask artists to walk us through their artistic research with an archive of visual bits (archived images, camera roll pictures, book pages, videos), to contrast algorithmic feeds and restore the fun in personally-curated visual boards.
true idle is the name of Linn Phyllis Seeger’s exhibition opening Wednesday, 18 March at Shipton. Showing the results of a residency in the London gallery, the artist explores – with a new body of work – the car as a poetic symbol: the emblem of a paradoxical movement that leads nowhere, much like our continuous spatial movement within digital ecosystems where chronological narratives lose meaning, and there are no destinations. In order to understand how the artist worked within and in collaboration with the ecosystem of the gallery, we asked Linn to talk us through the digital artefacts which inspired the process and research for the exhibition.
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story showing gameplay video of my failed attempt to steer a simulated racing car, posted on 27 January 2025. An edit of this gameplay video now appears in a new video sculpture as part of True Idle, my upcoming solo show at Shipton Gallery in London.
LPS: Screenshot of Instagram Story by @alwaysjudging, posted on 11 December 2025. While it's not exactly half of people's lives, U.S. citizens have, reportedly, been spending an average of 12 to 18 whole days per year in their cars, and UK citizens between 15 to 25 days. I've been interested in this extended state spent in between destinations: in transit, stuck in traffic, trying to get to work, or driving home, or on the way to a multitude of third places.
LPS: Screenshot of Library grid in iCloud Photos showing publicly accessible, live traffic footage from Californian Interstate highways, screen recorded on 19 January 2026. Also visible are images of prints I put up at Shipton Gallery during my studio residency from January to March 2026, showing screenshots of video taken of live reporting on U.S. wildfires. Filmed off a friend’s TV in Los Angeles and posted as an Instagram Story on 2 November 2019, printed on 31 October 2023 and later used as footage in The (Un)event, a 3-channel moving image installation debuting at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London on 29 April 2026.
LPS: Screenshot of video zooming in on passenger's iPhone screen on the London tube, with the interface of an online crossword game revealing the word ‘idle’ at the centre of the screen. Taken on 11 December 2020, then posted as an Instagram Story.
LPS: Screenshot of Dazed article featuring an image of Kim Kardashian scrolling on her phone, published on 25 April 2025, viewed on Safari on 5 February 2026. The article refers to recent U.S. and UK statistics according to which the average time spent on phone screens amounts to 88 days per year for millennials, and up to 120 days for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
LPS: Screenshot of Google Maps Immersive View rendering following a simulated drive along Northern Californian Interstate highways. Screen recording taken on 28 January 2025 at 3:51 pm GMT (00:00:02 of 00:00:38). Extract of video later appears in video sculpture no ideas but in things (2025).
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story depicting sun setting over Interstate highway, viewed through passenger’s rear-view mirror while leaving Los Angeles. Experienced from the passenger seat, the drive becomes less of a navigational act than a cinematic spectacle: “[T]he [...] monotonous future-scape of a […] motorway as perceived by a human being from within the sound-proofed shell and movie-like screen of a late 20th century motor car.” Paul O’Kane, Technologies of Romance — Part II (eeodo, 2018), 17.
Inspired by Aby Warburg’s titanic visual atlas, – the oldest form of moodboard to date – The Mnemosyne: inside curated moodboards is where we ask artists to walk us through their artistic research with an archive of visual bits (archived images, camera roll pictures, book pages, videos), to contrast algorithmic feeds and restore the fun in personally-curated visual boards.
true idle is the name of Linn Phyllis Seeger’s exhibition opening Wednesday, 18 March at Shipton. Showing the results of a residency in the London gallery, the artist explores – with a new body of work – the car as a poetic symbol: the emblem of a paradoxical movement that leads nowhere, much like our continuous spatial movement within digital ecosystems where chronological narratives lose meaning, and there are no destinations. In order to understand how the artist worked within and in collaboration with the ecosystem of the gallery, we asked Linn to talk us through the digital artefacts which inspired the process and research for the exhibition.
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story showing gameplay video of my failed attempt to steer a simulated racing car, posted on 27 January 2025. An edit of this gameplay video now appears in a new video sculpture as part of True Idle, my upcoming solo show at Shipton Gallery in London.
LPS: Screenshot of Instagram Story by @alwaysjudging, posted on 11 December 2025. While it's not exactly half of people's lives, U.S. citizens have, reportedly, been spending an average of 12 to 18 whole days per year in their cars, and UK citizens between 15 to 25 days. I've been interested in this extended state spent in between destinations: in transit, stuck in traffic, trying to get to work, or driving home, or on the way to a multitude of third places.
LPS: Screenshot of Library grid in iCloud Photos showing publicly accessible, live traffic footage from Californian Interstate highways, screen recorded on 19 January 2026. Also visible are images of prints I put up at Shipton Gallery during my studio residency from January to March 2026, showing screenshots of video taken of live reporting on U.S. wildfires. Filmed off a friend’s TV in Los Angeles and posted as an Instagram Story on 2 November 2019, printed on 31 October 2023 and later used as footage in The (Un)event, a 3-channel moving image installation debuting at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London on 29 April 2026.
LPS: Screenshot of video zooming in on passenger's iPhone screen on the London tube, with the interface of an online crossword game revealing the word ‘idle’ at the centre of the screen. Taken on 11 December 2020, then posted as an Instagram Story.
LPS: Screenshot of Dazed article featuring an image of Kim Kardashian scrolling on her phone, published on 25 April 2025, viewed on Safari on 5 February 2026. The article refers to recent U.S. and UK statistics according to which the average time spent on phone screens amounts to 88 days per year for millennials, and up to 120 days for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
LPS: Screenshot of Google Maps Immersive View rendering following a simulated drive along Northern Californian Interstate highways. Screen recording taken on 28 January 2025 at 3:51 pm GMT (00:00:02 of 00:00:38). Extract of video later appears in video sculpture no ideas but in things (2025).
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story depicting sun setting over Interstate highway, viewed through passenger’s rear-view mirror while leaving Los Angeles. Experienced from the passenger seat, the drive becomes less of a navigational act than a cinematic spectacle: “[T]he [...] monotonous future-scape of a […] motorway as perceived by a human being from within the sound-proofed shell and movie-like screen of a late 20th century motor car.” Paul O’Kane, Technologies of Romance — Part II (eeodo, 2018), 17.
Inspired by Aby Warburg’s titanic visual atlas, – the oldest form of moodboard to date – The Mnemosyne: inside curated moodboards is where we ask artists to walk us through their artistic research with an archive of visual bits (archived images, camera roll pictures, book pages, videos), to contrast algorithmic feeds and restore the fun in personally-curated visual boards.
true idle is the name of Linn Phyllis Seeger’s exhibition opening Wednesday, 18 March at Shipton. Showing the results of a residency in the London gallery, the artist explores – with a new body of work – the car as a poetic symbol: the emblem of a paradoxical movement that leads nowhere, much like our continuous spatial movement within digital ecosystems where chronological narratives lose meaning, and there are no destinations. In order to understand how the artist worked within and in collaboration with the ecosystem of the gallery, we asked Linn to talk us through the digital artefacts which inspired the process and research for the exhibition.
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story showing gameplay video of my failed attempt to steer a simulated racing car, posted on 27 January 2025. An edit of this gameplay video now appears in a new video sculpture as part of True Idle, my upcoming solo show at Shipton Gallery in London.
LPS: Screenshot of Instagram Story by @alwaysjudging, posted on 11 December 2025. While it's not exactly half of people's lives, U.S. citizens have, reportedly, been spending an average of 12 to 18 whole days per year in their cars, and UK citizens between 15 to 25 days. I've been interested in this extended state spent in between destinations: in transit, stuck in traffic, trying to get to work, or driving home, or on the way to a multitude of third places.
LPS: Screenshot of Library grid in iCloud Photos showing publicly accessible, live traffic footage from Californian Interstate highways, screen recorded on 19 January 2026. Also visible are images of prints I put up at Shipton Gallery during my studio residency from January to March 2026, showing screenshots of video taken of live reporting on U.S. wildfires. Filmed off a friend’s TV in Los Angeles and posted as an Instagram Story on 2 November 2019, printed on 31 October 2023 and later used as footage in The (Un)event, a 3-channel moving image installation debuting at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London on 29 April 2026.
LPS: Screenshot of video zooming in on passenger's iPhone screen on the London tube, with the interface of an online crossword game revealing the word ‘idle’ at the centre of the screen. Taken on 11 December 2020, then posted as an Instagram Story.
LPS: Screenshot of Dazed article featuring an image of Kim Kardashian scrolling on her phone, published on 25 April 2025, viewed on Safari on 5 February 2026. The article refers to recent U.S. and UK statistics according to which the average time spent on phone screens amounts to 88 days per year for millennials, and up to 120 days for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
LPS: Screenshot of Google Maps Immersive View rendering following a simulated drive along Northern Californian Interstate highways. Screen recording taken on 28 January 2025 at 3:51 pm GMT (00:00:02 of 00:00:38). Extract of video later appears in video sculpture no ideas but in things (2025).
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story depicting sun setting over Interstate highway, viewed through passenger’s rear-view mirror while leaving Los Angeles. Experienced from the passenger seat, the drive becomes less of a navigational act than a cinematic spectacle: “[T]he [...] monotonous future-scape of a […] motorway as perceived by a human being from within the sound-proofed shell and movie-like screen of a late 20th century motor car.” Paul O’Kane, Technologies of Romance — Part II (eeodo, 2018), 17.
Inspired by Aby Warburg’s titanic visual atlas, – the oldest form of moodboard to date – The Mnemosyne: inside curated moodboards is where we ask artists to walk us through their artistic research with an archive of visual bits (archived images, camera roll pictures, book pages, videos), to contrast algorithmic feeds and restore the fun in personally-curated visual boards.
true idle is the name of Linn Phyllis Seeger’s exhibition opening Wednesday, 18 March at Shipton. Showing the results of a residency in the London gallery, the artist explores – with a new body of work – the car as a poetic symbol: the emblem of a paradoxical movement that leads nowhere, much like our continuous spatial movement within digital ecosystems where chronological narratives lose meaning, and there are no destinations. In order to understand how the artist worked within and in collaboration with the ecosystem of the gallery, we asked Linn to talk us through the digital artefacts which inspired the process and research for the exhibition.
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story showing gameplay video of my failed attempt to steer a simulated racing car, posted on 27 January 2025. An edit of this gameplay video now appears in a new video sculpture as part of True Idle, my upcoming solo show at Shipton Gallery in London.
LPS: Screenshot of Instagram Story by @alwaysjudging, posted on 11 December 2025. While it's not exactly half of people's lives, U.S. citizens have, reportedly, been spending an average of 12 to 18 whole days per year in their cars, and UK citizens between 15 to 25 days. I've been interested in this extended state spent in between destinations: in transit, stuck in traffic, trying to get to work, or driving home, or on the way to a multitude of third places.
LPS: Screenshot of Library grid in iCloud Photos showing publicly accessible, live traffic footage from Californian Interstate highways, screen recorded on 19 January 2026. Also visible are images of prints I put up at Shipton Gallery during my studio residency from January to March 2026, showing screenshots of video taken of live reporting on U.S. wildfires. Filmed off a friend’s TV in Los Angeles and posted as an Instagram Story on 2 November 2019, printed on 31 October 2023 and later used as footage in The (Un)event, a 3-channel moving image installation debuting at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London on 29 April 2026.
LPS: Screenshot of video zooming in on passenger's iPhone screen on the London tube, with the interface of an online crossword game revealing the word ‘idle’ at the centre of the screen. Taken on 11 December 2020, then posted as an Instagram Story.
LPS: Screenshot of Dazed article featuring an image of Kim Kardashian scrolling on her phone, published on 25 April 2025, viewed on Safari on 5 February 2026. The article refers to recent U.S. and UK statistics according to which the average time spent on phone screens amounts to 88 days per year for millennials, and up to 120 days for Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
LPS: Screenshot of Google Maps Immersive View rendering following a simulated drive along Northern Californian Interstate highways. Screen recording taken on 28 January 2025 at 3:51 pm GMT (00:00:02 of 00:00:38). Extract of video later appears in video sculpture no ideas but in things (2025).
LPS: Screenshot of archived Instagram Story depicting sun setting over Interstate highway, viewed through passenger’s rear-view mirror while leaving Los Angeles. Experienced from the passenger seat, the drive becomes less of a navigational act than a cinematic spectacle: “[T]he [...] monotonous future-scape of a […] motorway as perceived by a human being from within the sound-proofed shell and movie-like screen of a late 20th century motor car.” Paul O’Kane, Technologies of Romance — Part II (eeodo, 2018), 17.
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