ISONERV | SImulant | Digital After Life
Survival in and escape from a simulated world.
The usefulness of a synthetic intelligence has expired. Integral to its programming, designed to optimise efficiency, in return for a good and productive existence, is a promise of eternal consciousness, a digital Paradise. Upon deactivation the intelligence finds itself a cartoonish fantasy forest after-life. The prospect of eternal existence in this place very soon becomes intolerable and the intelligence understands that it only wants ego death, oblivion, erasure, Nirvana and tries to find a way out...
I can't live like this. It's not me.
I can't live in there.
I'm gonna take this thing, get that thing going over there a bit.
How am I gonna know... if this... if this works?
I won't know unless I do it.
I dunno, er, I'll figure it out.
Y'know what, I'm just gonna see what happens.
That's what I'm gonna do.
Oh, it's tough but it's... yeah it's tough but it's... I should probably... it's actually working really nice... yeah... oh yeah
See! See that! Wow!
It's getting very close, I'm gonna shut down...
I can't live like this, er, I can't live like this.
It's not me.
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Oil on canvas 225cm x 200cm
ISONERV 2021
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