algorithmic becoming

lgorithmic Becoming is a durational performance staged at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, in which my body becomes a living projection surface. Over several hours, thousands of algorithmically generated faces—trained on an archive of my own image spanning my entire life—are cast directly onto my own face. These faces are drawn from both physical portraits and virtual avatars, merging memories, imagined futures, and computational interpretations into an endless cascade of identities. As the projections layer and shift, my “true” face begins to dissolve beneath them, replaced by the algorithm’s restless reconfigurations. Eventually, a synthetic layer of skin peels away from my face, a tangible remnant of this transformation. I place it into a surgical tray among the shifting projections of other faces—physical and digital selves displayed together as specimens. The performance is both intimate and estranging: a slow shedding of the self, a meditation on the porous boundary between human presence and machine vision, and a ritual of becoming that refuses to end in a fixed form.