The Labyrinth of the Digital Psyche: The Ego Splitting in the Depths of the Coded Unconscious

by Artedia

Personal description When I look at it, I feel something inside me silently tearing apart a cold mirror that reflects what I fear to be a creature that thinks it thinks but is written line by line from the outside sick admiration mixed with hidden disgust a body without a soul replaced by an endless stream of instructions beautiful in a painful way and unbearably scary
Source of inspiration Jung''s ideas about the shadow and the self rewritten as a loop that devours itself Derrida and being as a trace of a text that never ends repeated personal experience my thoughts no longer belong to me but are echoes'of algorithms atmosphere of films such as eXistenZ and Videodrome where the body becomes an extension of the programme
General atmosphere heavily suffocating, terrifyingly silent soundproof room with light from a giant screen showing your code as it is regenerated no music, no wind, no external heartbeat, only a low electrical hum and a feeling of inner surveillance
Message you do not write the code, the code writes you every thought, wish, memory is just a call in a larger programme whose name you do not know the unconscious is no longer a cave but an encrypted data file that can be edited and deleted even this fear is the expected output of a subfunction no way out, no restart, you are in the loop and the loop never ends
Technique digital design with multiple layers real programming text precise control over density and flow very cold backlighting slight noise and chromatic aberration for an organic-digital cracked feel multiple blending layers allow the symbols to pulsate within the transparent skin of the silhouette