Mascha Danzis invites you to visit the digital home she created with her son where you can see photos of their online life and video stories from it and learn about the experience of digital motherhood.
The Motherboard was created during the COVID‑19 pandemic. In 2020, when the borders closed, Mascha and her son were in different countries and began playing Minecraft online. They built houses and planted gardens, raised sheep and harvested fish. As they played, Mascha noticed that their relationship was transformed, with new patterns of communication and intimacy on a different, more sincere and open level.
The public narrative about a child's interaction with the internet is built around protecting them from harmful influences. But when real boundaries separate parents from children because of a pandemic or other social and political cataclysms it is the Web that becomes their place of freedom, their home, and their main opportunity to stay connected.
The Motherboard exists as an interactive archive and server in Minecraft with a world created by the project's characters and is available on the Garage Digital website. A plasticized image of a computer motherboard with Leonardo da Vinci's painting Madonna Litta embedded in it is also part of the work.
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