Born Cyber Drama (2017)
The Origin of a Digital Poetics
Born Cyber Drama (2017)
The Origin of a Digital Poetics
Born Cyber Drama (2017) marks the emergence of Cyber Drama (C.D.), a concept that synthesizes emotional dilemmas, the aesthetics of virtuality, and the paradoxes of contemporary digital experience.
The acronym C.D. not only refers to cyber drama but also evokes the compact disc, a digital medium that, like certain online dynamics, has undergone a process of obsolescence and discarding.
With videos of up to 1 minute and 6 seconds, Born Cyber Drama adopts the ephemeral logic of social media content consumption, reflecting on the impact of the accelerated temporality of the internet. Just as stories and fast-paced videos expire in 24 hours, each video assumes the fragmented nature of online experience, creating an archive of digital sensations before they are dissolved by the relentless flow of the timeline.
This work not only introduces the poetics of Cyber Drama but also anticipates key issues of the digital era: the fusion of humans and technology, the collapse between the ephemeral and the permanent, and the tension between freedom and alienation in cyberspace.
This initial project establishes the three fundamental pillars of Cyber Drama—Image, Machine, and Feelings—and articulates them in an audiovisual narrative divided into three acts.
Act I:
The Soul (Image): The user discovers virtuality and inserts themselves into the universe of machines. Here, the aesthetics of visual exaggeration and hyperstimulation are explored as means of seduction and immersion. The screen becomes a mirror of infinite possibilities, where identity and perception are shaped by algorithmic logic.
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How do I perceive my existence in cyberspace? What am I and represent through data?
Navigating is being traversed by the plurality of the other, becoming transversal and hybrid at the touch of a click. I am part of and aid in the construction of the collective body, it is transformation, an avalanche that comes without asking for permission, it is the wind that touches the hair without being announced, ready or not, I find myself here, immersed with information beyond what I can process, numbers make me feel like just one, maybe less than 0 and 1… but what remains for me? How to proceed and enjoy in a way that my "self" absorbs the possibilities of use beyond the obvious?
Duração: 1:01 Min
Captação de Vídeo: Cristiano Luque
Edição, Roteiro e Montagem: Lexidiny
Áudio: Sea of Aland - Sint-Janskathedraal - Part II
Act II:
The Body (Machine): The individual finds themselves trapped by devices and digital structures that once seemed liberating. The body is mediated by interfaces, captured by the cycle of notifications, the dependence on virtual validation, and the incessant production of data. The machine, which was once an extension, becomes control.
The artificial agent becomes a fundamental piece for faster evolution, how to build a fair self-sufficiency that integrates body and machine? In a way that does not become hostage to digital technological processes, by the facilities obtained.
Interfaces that process and mediate the dialogue between numbers and users, can the simplicity of use become manipulation?
The gamification of processes, and of the body itself ready to be introduced compulsorily, the pathologies that are created through the use of the machine, on which side is the thinking being? The unattainable desire that becomes present, getting lost through utopian idealizations, non-real representations, gratuitous hate and its reflections in culture, reorganizing feelings between chaos and order, between pixels and dots, perception gains gaps between extra definition and blur.
Ficha Técnica:
Duração: 1:03 Min
Captação de Vídeo: Aline dos Anjos
Edição, Roteiro e Montagem: Lexidiny
Avatares Presentes: Catharina Belline e Pedro Igor Crisostomo Pereira.
Áudio: PC Noise & Pedicure Records - Way Harder
Act III:
The Practice (Feelings): Amid saturation, the search for a new balance emerges. The user discovers ways to reconnect with themselves through the virtual, redefining their relationship with networks and exploring creative possibilities within this ecosystem. The digital ceases to be just passive consumption and becomes a field of experimentation and self-knowledge.
We walk towards a translation of the senses through machines, these are potentiated through the mechanical that reorganizes the organic, the effects of presence and their senses cause tension (through representation).
The agency of experiences creates a duality between the corporeal and the incorporeal, to what layer is it possible to feel the virtual?
To launch into virtuality is to redefine a new space through numbers.
Ficha Técnica:
Duração: 1:03 Min
Captação de Vídeo: Aline dos Anjos
Edição, Roteiro e Montagem: Lexidiny
Avatares Presentes: Catharina Belline e Pedro Igor Crisostomo Pereira.
Áudio: PC Noise & Pedicure Records - Way Harder