Singularity

Singularity is a virtual reality experience about technological acceleration and the relationship between living organisms and inorganic intelligence. You explore an abandoned, forgotten world shaped by a decentralized order, using the structure of a racing game as a basis for the experience.

Explore and collect

You observe and collect metaphors for past and present technologies, including mobile phones, Bluetooth, the information superhighway and chatbots. As you gather them, you move through an accelerating virtual reality world and eventually reach the “singularity.” The experience draws a parallel between collecting props to accelerate in racing games and the exponential acceleration described by the Law of Accelerating Returns.

Ideas behind the experience

The work takes inspiration from the artist’s experience of living in an increasingly digitized world. It refers to Ray Kurzweil’s claim that the singularity will happen by 2045 and to Steven Shaviro’s statement that “like it or not, we are all accelerationists now.”