This artwork features a bedroom produced EDM music video. Think of the plot as a coming-of-age story for an introvert. If heroes always return from their journeys, why sail to distant islands to fight a cyclops, when we can stay home and take the shortcut on our keyboard? The piece explores a peculiar kind of loneliness that emerges from too many double-bind instructions that come knocking at your door. You know you’re trapped, but the alternatives seem even more frightening—so, well… please, come in. Recently, artificial intelligence has entered the scene as a friendly, alien companion: it claims to understand you completely and offers to help you invest even more in becoming your own self-improved avatar that can take care of your business in the outside world. Doesn't take your trash down, though. While creativity tightens under this pressure, the smooth, earnest AI voice keeps singing: “No problem.”
“I’m with me and you with you,” the voice continues—essentially a polite way of saying: You’re on your own. And still, we hear it as affection. As reassurance. As a cosy hug from the void.