The Rot, 2025

Video, 3 x 46″ screens, a backdrop 3x3M

The Rot is a three-channel video installation exploring what happens when digital systems break down—when artificial beings, created through generative technology, lose their connection to meaning, structure, and source. The work consists entirely of AI-generated voices, stock imagery, and synthetic animation. There are no filmed or physical elements—just digital remnants speaking into a void. Each screen presents a digital entity stuck in a blue-screen environment, referencing the Blue Screen of Death common in system errors. These characters try to communicate, loop through familiar phrases, and search for input— spewing out lines like “something went wrong” or “describe the image you want to generate.” While these phrases come from tech interfaces, They are, in this context, used as stand-ins for deeper existential questions—about identity, control, and the systems we depend on. The way these entities slowly melt into green “slop” reflects the overload of low-quality content we see online, but also speaks to a more general fatigue: of ideas, of futures that never came, of a world that feels increasingly automated and stuck in place. (DISCLAIMER: The sculptural work on the right is not a part of my video installation.)