- Melodie Shi
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I am a London-based multidisciplinary creative with a focus on the social impressions created by the interplay between materiality and digital culture.
I have developed a theory-led practice that forms a critical approach to humanity’s future.
It all began with a letter from the year 2050, written by a daughter who had lived alongside an AI digital twin since birth. Digitally stored personal histories are becoming ever more entangled with the concept of one’s self-understanding; blurring the lines between physically and digitally constructed selfhood. Instigating a series of practical and theoretical research into contemporary selfhood understanding, AI companionship, digital tonality, immaterial digital personal histories, intuitive walking, and maps.
The short film features my walk with an AI digital twin’s voice, traversing various non-spaces through digital and physical interplays. It aims to meditate on a critical distance in the age of digitally manufactured instant gratification.