Machine Royale: Echo Chambers Of Our Time
Contains AI-assisted elements
Machine Royale: Echo Chambers Of Our Time video, mask bot robot, installation, performance, 2025 Machine Royale explores desire within emerging power structures in digital and physical spaces, and their effects on social perception and behavior. Technologies such as artificial intelligence and digital currencies fuel a collective drive toward efficiency, control, and optimization. These dynamics generate cycles of overproduction, speculation, and devaluation, whose ruptures reshape social and economic realities. At the center of the work is a Mask Bot, a robot with a projected human face that moves autonomously through a dynamic field of black spheres. The “ShadowBubbles” form a constantly shifting enclosure, a spatial metaphor for the closed information spaces and echo chambers of our time. Through the interplay of human presence, technological surface, and machine movement, an ambivalent scenario emerges between empathy and alienation, perception, control, and self-image. The bot appears at once alive and empty; it “speaks” from within the structure without being able to escape it. Numbed by an incessant flood of information, trapped in systems that model our desires, an intermediate space opens up in which questions of consciousness, intimacy, and resistance are posed anew in the age of dataism and the algorithmic present.
