Digital Media
United

In the context of digital technology, signs have long since detached from their anchors. They drift, replicate, and mutate across screens and algorithms, like floating objects with no home.
To me, the digital human is not merely a virtual figure, but a vessel—carrying language, memory, the gaze of others, and a rewritten self.
AI’s language generation accelerates this drift, searching through endless texts for the most probable path, yet taking no responsibility for the stability of meaning.
In such an environment, “I” am constantly constructing myself, while also being continuously deconstructed; the reflected image may come from the water’s surface, from others, or even from words I have never spoken. Fragility and wholeness, fiction and reality, meaning and noise—they are like two sides of the same sign, interwoven in perpetual motion.
As go along the traces seem to never tell
Putting memories but it never finds its way
To find somebody who knows it
But it’s better to stick on myself
In my own philosophy
In my worst imagination
I’m immersed constantly in building myself
Even fragile things can forge a complete me
Everyone is weak
Everyone is weak
Time is flowing
The mirror is always bumpy
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Dream 2
from Floating Signifiers by Shii