Writing Future Scenario:
Platform Desert I

This is a science fiction future scenario and image series about life in 2040.

The work depicts people trapped and works in the Platform Desert in 2040. Most people work on the Platform Desert every day. They are non-regular workers and work for long hours and are separated from the real world. People suffer a decrease in memory function caused by a lack of sleep, segmented work, and an always-connected Internet environment. They have a fear that they are disappearing. A protagonist faces the fear and helplessness of the rapidly changing technology environment. He tries to counter this situation. To do that, he creates programs using BCI (Brain-Computer Interface), a technology that is already widely used in the future, and distributes it to people. Users use the program to look back on their thoughts and times that have already passed. Some users expand their thinking with it and combine with AI agents to become human-AI philosophers.

Today, there is a strong prevalent sense that a future has already been determined. This practice writes my own future scenario to question the dominant feeling. The future scenario was written in fiction, based on expert predictions on the future technology and labor. Through the process, the work explores the space between the promise of the better tomorrow given by technology and the overwhelmingness it provides.

The image series visualizes the future scenario, and conveys the feeling of living on a platform. The images explore visual tension between virtual space and nature elements. The images are created by combining photography and digital image elements.