Theme: Being Digital
Being Digital
Most of us are already more than human. We extend our identities into the digital realm, creating virtual counterparts of ourselves that exist apart from our physical selves. We increasingly interact with the world through artificial interfaces, and our physical experiences are enhanced or augmented, blurring the boundaries between real and virtual environments. Ray Kurzweil speculates that in the distant future, the human species might withdraw into an entirely virtual world, leaving robot avatars to safely interact with the physical world on our behalf.
The Being Digital theme considers what it means to exist in an increasingly digital world. It brings up questions such as: Where are the boundaries of self when we create digital identities? Does ‘being human’ matter? What is the nature of being without physical dimensions? How have relationships changed as a result of the internet? What are the potential consequences of AI?
Ideas about identity underpin this theme. They prompt us to consider how online identities can be plural or flexible, the relationship between physical and virtual identity, and the ways in which we define ourselves as human or other.
49 Projects found
Exploring digital rituals, AI, and dissociative states, “Sublime” questions authenticity and consciousness through self and collective reflection
How might we leverage technology to support young adults in overcoming their social phobias?
A gamified learning experience to raise awareness about an individual’s digital footprint.
“What if in the future the digitally disabled population will need to purchase knowledge in order to be included in society?”
A view on communication beyond technology
It is an experimental social platform that redefines online communication and explores the boundaries of human communication.
Plant a tree on your phone—it grows when you focus, dies when you’re distracted.
A social media theater that blends vintage and digital elements to explore identity distortion and performative culture online.
AI sits at the crossroads of modern science and timeless wisdom. How much is it doing for artists?
The project explores the mental state of people in a dazed, disconnected mode on the London Underground.
"Where skin becomes a conductor and heartbeats write their music."
This is a dystopian immersive experience game divided into three chapters. As the chapter progresses, users experience changes in their identity.
An interdisciplinary practice to foster a deeper understanding of how technology redefines our cognitive processes and our relationship with reality.
An evolving archive exploring loss through conflict by collecting personal artefacts and stories excluded from dominant institutional narratives.
Merging bodily movement with an interactive object, this cyborg performance redefines intimacy and examines how humans connect in our hybrid world.
A fictional proposition about the motivations and impact of an AI, Syra, who chooses to destroy human knowledge to free humanity
Perk Trails promotes healthier digital habits via rewards for offline activities like walking, cooking, and socialising. Disconnect to reconnect!
NeoIsle is a portable AI device that detects melanoma, predicts scars, and prints custom tattoos to creatively cover post-operative scar on the skin.
This project deconstructs and reconstructs cultural symbols through animation, revealing their variations and reproductions across different contexts.
A critical exploration of how AI mimics perception without true understanding, revealing its human-shaped logic and non-human cognition.
An AI-controlled robot arm listens and decides whether to give out a flower. It explores post-humanist AI-human dialogue in the digital future.
An emotion-sensing wearable that detects brainwave activity to visualize users’ emotions into interactive game inputs
A collaboratively made tapestry map project to address the imbalance of the digital and analogue in everyday contemporary life.
A two-part video project: a 3D-modeled dream world and a fully AI-generated sequence, exploring how AI gradually reshapes dreams, memory, and reality.
Imagine a near future where memories become a form of currency.
A place where you can browse, buy, or sell memories.
Once a memory is sold, it is perm
A speculative approach exploring the integration of emerging technology within the realm of healthcare in a new digital future
Immersive, personalised healing, accessible to anyone under stress.
The Show Must Stop examines the ethics of AI-Resurrection, a technology using AI and TouchDesigner to recreate key traits of the deceased.
A short film that reveals how social labels dim our view of others and how listening can bring back the light.
A Social Chain of Creativity and Mindfulness
AfterNow.zip - a digital time capsule exploring future human communication.
This project is committed to designing a companion-type growth interactive pet game based on the emotional needs of users in the Z era.
An interactive performance project that combines sound and installation
This project explores the impact of AI-dependent communication on human expression and identity, proposing a conceptual AI mouth piece/mask.
Digital systems form a matrix of symbols, and consciousness is the outward manifestation of these symbols.
A speculative storytelling project that explores how AI in a Black Mirror-esque futures, can subtly distort our realities, relationships, and choices.
Terms & Conditions; How can user ownership be preserved in the digital society?
Welcome to EchoSpace, a new, digital social media platform more inclusive to the LGBTQ+ community
Divine Loop is a virtual sanctuary where algorithm-driven rituals mimic religion and subtly reshape our emotions and beliefs.
WovenVault is an app that aims to preserve and present traditional Asian costumes in a digital format.
Journey to the Stars is a VR game/experience depicting the challenges that would be faced if mankind were to travel and settle on Mars.
Live forever, at the cost of your data. Eterna is a speculative digital service that questions digital legacy, identity, and ownership.
Resonant Flow is an interactive environment that transforms personal energy and movement into a dynamic audiovisual experience, allowing participants
Merging digital effects with garments to create immersive, responsive fashion experiences that blend reality and visual expression.
An experimental short film warning about AI religion.
We use the deceased’s last digital handwriting to evoke fleeting life through light, movement, and interactive installation.
A digital reinterpretation of Shan Hai Jing using 3D and animation to revive ancient Chinese myths through immersive visual storytelling.
Our project explores the potential of memory modification as a tool for psychological healing and identity reconstruction.
Our project is about deconstructing rational authority through phantom events in order to counter the coming of a rational dictatorship in the AI age.