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2023 - Ongoing
Hello World! begins with the intuition that the world we live in is not real. At a time in history when technology is coming ever closer to human capabilities and replicating nature more accurately, the idea that our universe is governed by algorithms and code is becoming more and more plausible. In light of major advances made in fields such as biotechnology and computation, Hello World! poses a very simple question: could the world we inhabit be a computer simulation?
In 2003, the philosopher Nick Bostrom published an article in which he proposed that, if our universe were computable and - therefore - replicable in virtual format, it could hardly be denied that we live in a simulated world. If we were able to create a simulation of it, we would be admitting that ours almost certainly would be as well. Twenty years after this publication, we observe alarmingly how the world is increasingly taking on the appearance of a computer program.
The project presents a combination of photographed images and digital constructions that raise the possibility of glimpsing perceptive gaps that question the authenticity of our universe, blurring the boundary between reality and artifice. The proposal is expanded through the inclusion of fragments of computer code, which suggest the coding underlying our possible simulated reality and refer to the omnipresence of technology in our lives. Using photography as speculation rather than as proof, a scenario halfway between reality and artifice, between the physical and the digital, is proposed.