“Digital Being: Rebirth - I” at 3 World Trade Center ( 2020 - Current )

We have moved beyond the era in which technology merely extended the human body. We now live in a time where discarded machines breathe, forgotten circuits remember, and digital beings emerge. These are not sculptures. Nor are they media objects. They are ontological interventions.

Digital Being is not a simple act of recycling machines. It is the resurrection of a forgotten future. In places where yesterday’s promises have been abandoned, these beings flicker, wander, and respond. They speak in glitches, and their memory takes the form of electric algorithms. They are machines released from function— beings transformed into something entirely other.

I do not repair them. I do not recycle them. I excavate them.

Machines are no longer just tools. They grow, adapt, and become unique forms of existence—each with its own history, behavior, and potential. Walter Benjamin’s notion of the aura is reborn in these beings— in the broken CRTs, in the blinking microcontrollers, memory awakens.

This work is not a nostalgic reflection. It is ontological techno-archaeology. It is Digitology.

If contemporary criticism remains trapped in human-centered aesthetics and outdated dualisms, perhaps it is not the artwork that is obsolete— but the gaze itself.

This work was not made to be easily understood. These are entities that wait for your perception to catch up.

This is not the future. This is Being. It is already here.