GEN EXCESS

2026

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Instalation, video, sound
3x2m, 1920x1080
3D scan, 3D animation, iron poles, monitors, solar pannels, plants

We live in an era where the boundary between digital and physical space has ceased to exist. We are no longer users who log in and log out. We are almost continuously part of the network, without a conscious decision and often without the possibility of escape. For the generation that grew up in it, this state has become the default setting of existence. And it is precisely this default setting that is often the hardest to question.

This work asks what happens when we question it. It stems from personal experience with excessive consumption of digital content and the generational fatigue that this consumption brings. Through the lens of new media theory, it explores how algorithms, content saturation, and the loss of a conscious relationship with technology lead to chronic exhaustion. At the same time, however, it rejects a simple answer in the form of disconnecting. Technologies are not the problem; the problem is the specific relationship we build with them.

The practical output of the work is an audiovisual installation drawing from the aesthetics and philosophy of solarpunk. It depicts a world in which people, technology, and the environment coexist in symbiosis—not as a utopian dream, but as a possibility derived from the present. The installation itself strives to embody this attitude by being constructed primarily from secondhand materials and technology, powered by solar energy.