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Self Undone
Pixel Metabolism, Interface Ulcer
By Zhongyao Wang
Artist Statement by Zhongyao Wang
“Pixel Metabolism, Interface Ulcer” envisions a disembodied, screen-dominated AI future encircled by satellites: virtual imagery is compressed into a tiny pink pill that invades the flesh in reverse, dissolving the boundary between digital and biological. Users become self-experimenting cyborgs, forced to recalibrate touch and bodily perception between ingestion and rejection.
This is a ritual of digital consumption. Pixels dissolve, seep, and parasitize the gut flora; code and flesh converge at the threshold of the interface, forming a new sensory substance. A voiceover, mimicking pharmaceutical instructions, lists the era’s defining syndromes: interface craving disorder, somatic disidentification syndrome, and AI-induced contact anxiety in human-machine interaction. This “prescription poem” dissects the sovereignty of the body, exposing fissures in technological ethics.
Digital experience here is both remedy and toxin. Residual poisons of gender, class, and colonial history drift through the intestinal labyrinth with the pill, forming an inescapable background noise. The fourth wall, eroded by digestive enzymes, collapses into pixel fragments—swallowed, secreted, and screen-bound.
Sepsis
By Zazie Productions​
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Artist Statement
By Zazie Productions
Sepsis (2024) is an audiovisual meditation on the dissolution of the singular Self in an era of relentless digital saturation. As artificial intelligence reshapes consciousness and identity, Sepsis explores the fracturing of human subjectivity into infinite, overlapping selves. Screens proliferate across a network of media—trucks, televisions, computers—forming an endless visual recursion, a hall of mirrors where the boundaries of selfhood dissolve. Faces warp and multiply, no longer tethered to physical reality but evolving into fluid, transpersonal entities, shaped as much by algorithmic processes as by human experience.
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Like an immune system spiraling into septic shock, the cognitive self struggles to process the overwhelming influx of mediated information, triggering a crisis of perception. AI-generated, disembodied voices murmur personalized mantras—simultaneously intimate and estranging—deepening the sensation of fragmentation. Inspired by the maximalist sensibility of Stan Brakhage, Sepsis embraces dense, layered imagery to evoke a state of sensory transcendence, where identity is not fixed but fluid, transfigured by the ceaseless interplay between human agency and machine intelligence. In this speculative space, the self is no longer singular but infinite, endlessly generated, deconstructed, and reimagined.​​
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