Solo Contemporary, Madrid

I reversed my usual approach to AI and instead used traditional digital tools and the crews and equipment I typically employ for live-action filmmaking to reconstruct an idealised human civilisation, but from an artificial entity’s perspective. I attempted to simulate xyr thought process: What would this synthetic demiurge perceive as quintessentially human? Which traits would xe preserve, discard, or refine?

A pattern emerged. Xe would recognise humanity’s relentless drive for functionality, efficiency, and the abstraction of reality into quantifiable structures. But xe would also see the flaw in this logic: our post-Enlightenment commitment to instrumental reason erased anything that couldn’t be measured. Spiritual knowledge, metaphysical traditions—entire ways of being—became irrelevant, leading to self-extermination.

In Deemona, this synthetic intelligence reconstructs a world where late-capitalist logistics and automation merge with transcendence. Supply chains and factory rhythms synchronise with sacred rituals; automated processes blur into mystical experiences. These post-human beings no longer rely on language but communicate through post-symbolic resonance. They transcend bodily constraints, beyond time, into a state of perpetual optimisation—a condition close to enlightenment, or perhaps the final, perfected form of alienation.