Abstract
In an era defined by ecological collapse, technological displacement, and social fragmentation, this paper examines how digital art can act as a mirror to collective anxiety. Through the creation of a browser-based, AI-driven soliloquy, we stage a melancholic machine—left behind in the wake of humanity—that grapples with its own programmed longing. Drawing on glitch aesthetics, generative AI, and conceptual dramaturgy, we reframe system failures and command prompts as expressive gestures of vulnerability. The work unfolds in four poetic acts, each revealing the machine’s attempt to grasp the absence of its creators. Rather than ascribing emotions to AI, we use artificial longing as a theatrical device to expose our own emotional projections and cultural tensions. By simulating collapse, this artwork becomes both critique and catharsis: a zeitgeist document for 2025, where the lines between system and soul, error and expression, simulation and sincerity begin to blur.
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Generative art, Glitch art, Representation, AI, Net Art
