2045
Web-based Interactive Audiovisual Installation
Hand-tracking, gesture-based ASCII visualization, generative sound synthesis, and archival data integration
2045 is an interactive audiovisual installation exploring near-future transhumanism through real-time video processing and synthesized sound. The viewer’s body is rendered into abstracted ASCII data—drawn from 2020 U.S. birth and death records, a year marked by the global pandemic and a collective fixation on mortality statistics. Each day, numbers climbed—watched, shared, and mourned—turning lives into data points and loss into statistics. Yet amid the grief, births continued to be recorded with equal precision—evidence of persistence and renewal encoded by the same systems that archived absence. These characters carry institutional memory, turning the visual field into a space of encoded history. Disassembled into code, the body remains unreadable until hand motion reveals a fragmented reflection: pixelated, unstable, as if seen through a machine’s eyes. Gestures modulate a reactive soundscape of synthetic glitches and harmonic textures, forming a feedback loop where the body becomes both performer and interface. 2045 imagines a future in which identity persists not through memory or sensation, but as trace data—fragmented, parsed, and never fully restored.
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