[e]merging realities

Everything about the way we live feels alien and strange. Our fragmented selves, adrift in a multiverse coexist with opaque life-like entities whose nature we barely understand; our beings present in many places at once, dispersed between physical, digital, and imaginal worlds, never certain where one ends and the other begins.

Contemporary existences unfold within a web of mediation, complexity, and entanglement. In our [e]merging post-human condition, time collapses into overlapping layers of immediacy, memory, and anticipation, while agency is quietly negotiated within interfaces and algorithms. These are the conditions through which reality is now perceived and (vaguely) understood.

This project situates itself within the contours of a Digital Existentialism: an approach that looks at digital technologies as conditions that actively shape how existences is lived. Rather than asking only what technologies do, we asks how they reorganize our sense of presence, agency, and meaning—and what new forms of orientation might be possible within them.

For decades, figures such as Martin Heidegger, Vilém Flusser, Marshall McLuhan, and Bernard Stiegler—and more recently Yuk Hui and Wendy Hui Kyong Chun—have helped us understand how technical systems shape experience, time, and ways of being. Their work forms an important backdrop for thinking about what digital life feels like today.

Our approach focuses on a technology at the centre of these conditions:
THE DIGITAL INTERFACE

Over the past forty years, digital interfaces (DI) have become the globally dominant medium of communication.
DI do not merely deliver information; it is through DI that we know the world, each other, and ourselves; they shape our very conditions of existence::

DIGITAL INTERFACES ARE OUR PRIMARY ONTOLOGICAL MEDIUM —

Acknowledging this fact reveals a contradiction

While we are fluent within this language, we remain largely inarticulate through it. We have been trained to navigate interfaces, to populate pre-existing templates with content, to behave within prescribed structures. Yet the capacity to transform the interface itself—to intervene at the level of structure, logic, and form—remains the privilege of a few. That is, the very medium that organizes our lives remains largely inaccessible as a means of expression::

OURS IS A CULTURE OF STRUCTURAL ILLITERACY.

This project is a revolves around two fundamental questions:

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIVE IN A REALITY SHAPED BY A MEDIUM LARGELY INACCESSIBLE TO US?

WHAT OTHER REALITIES WOULD EMERGE IF WE COULD FULLY EXPRESS OURSELVES WITHIN THAT MEDIUM?

Explore these spaces freely::

//ZOOM and SCROLL in all directions
//Rotate your mobile device

//For diverse experiences, explore in different devices

What other realities might emerge if we could fully express ourselves within that medium?

Technology is nothing without the capacity to make people dream

Achille Mbembe

"...[technology] becomes curative when you have what I call the second moment of epochality of technics... [the process of appropriation of a new technical system by society and the development of new modes of psychic and collective individuation based on this technical system]"

-Bernard Stiegler

TSUKANKA::
a digital being,
a swarm entity-
They will be your guide and companion, a wise trickster, sharing insights and puzzling questions.
They teach:

"If you can't understand the present,
imagine it!"

(your first teaching is waiting at the end of your first exploration) >>>>

if you can't understand the present,
imagine it

[e]-merging-conditions-of-existences

magines?