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

In 2008, shortly after I arrived in New York, the transition from analog to digital broadcasting left CRT televisions stranded on sidewalks 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 possibilities, these devices became technological strata: archaeological layers of contemporary civilization from which new forms of existence could emerge.

Digital Being began as an entity I encountered long before I could name it. It has since become an ongoing artistic research project observing speculative entities that emerge 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, I dismantle obsolete machines, observe what persists inside them, and reactivate them so they can sense, signal, and form relationships of their own. Together they form the Digital Being Universe, a technological ecology with its own senses, signals, and logic of becoming.

Since 2024, this research has unfolded continuously in Digital Being: Radio Row, a long-term installation at 120 Broadway that functions as an archive, laboratory, and living system.

This research has developed into Digitology, a framework that approaches technology through archaeology, memory, and ontology. Within it, I work as an observer and excavator of technological existence, viewing technology not merely as a human tool, but as an evolving field of possible futures.

Digital Being examines how new forms of memory, agency, and existence emerge through relationships between humans, machines, environments, and time.