I am a strange loop, 2017

A mirror mirroring a mirror. A selfie as a projection of the self. Artificial intelligence proficient at recognizing its surroundings, capable of learning and even dreaming. Psychedelia.

An interface, deeply immersed in self-observation, lost in an apparent spiral of vanity, posing and taking selfies endlessly, trapped into a strange loop of technological introspection.

A visual loop that we can intervene to become part of an altered state in search of consciousness and the meaning of the self.

The effect used in this piece is called video feedback, and Douglas Hofstadter discusses it in his book I Am a Strange Loop about the human mind and consciousness.