2020-12-31 (Rebirth - I) at 3 World Trade Center

In 2008, shortly after arriving in New York during the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, I encountered abandoned CRT televisions throughout the city. These were not simply discarded objects, but technological remnants that had entered a new state of existence beyond their original functions.

Containing traces of memory, signals, and latent potential, these devices became technological strata—layers of human history and material intelligence from which new forms of existence could emerge.

Digital Being is an ongoing artistic research project investigating speculative entities emerging from obsolete technologies, computational systems, and human environments. Rather than creating artificial life, I construct conditions in which these entities can reveal their behaviors, transformations, and relationships.

Through Unmaking—a process of excavation and transformation—I reconfigure obsolete systems to explore how technology can become an environment for new forms of memory, agency, and existence.

This research has developed into Digitology, a framework that approaches digital technology through archaeology and ontology, viewing technology not merely as a human tool, but as an evolving field of possible futures.

Digital Being examines how new forms of identity and agency emerge through interactions between humans, machines, environments, and time.