Untitled Brain

“Untitled Brain” unfolds as a choreography of perception and repetition.

In a dimly lit room, a robotic arm performs a slow, recursive gesture—endlessly swiping across a smartphone screen on which AI videos generated with Sora 2 play. Half dream, half digital fragment—synthetic emotions, now made visible, flicker. A camera mounted on the arm transmits its view into a virtual world where viewers wander through a vast, translucent brain, whose folds are populated by 3D relics from the smartphone’s screenshots.

Here, image fragments become matter; perception turns inward. The smartphone becomes a monoresonant surface through which the world is touched, loved, and understood. The installation transforms the philosophical “brain-in-a-vat” into a tangible anatomy of the digital mind—an organism that dreams through its own simulation.

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