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Within the space, these dynamics unfold through systems under tension: a piece of chewing gum placed under surveillance becomes the subject of continuous observation, while another is slowly altered through a controlled process of degradation. Biometric data drawn from an intimate encounter is captured and replayed in loops, translating the body into signal. Elsewhere, a lost hard drive drifts between landfill and digital myth, while generated images, fragments of dreams, and video game aesthetics construct unstable environments populated by residual presences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir works unfold as fragile dream constructions — layered, shifting, and often unstable. Interfaces persist but lose their legibility, appearing as remnants of control systems, surrounded by expanding forms that hover between mineral growth and technological extension. Environments assemble from fragments, lived traces, and reconstructed landscapes, while familiar objects — an apple, domestic furniture, a keyboard — are displaced and reimagined as speculative forms or collective structures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmploying digital imaginaries, modified devices, and underground culture, these creators reveal the contradictions of post-internet life, oscillating between exuberant experimentation and a critical reckoning with a capitalist system that often feels inescapable. This dynamic results in works that refuse binaries — retreat versus resistance, destruction versus creation — embracing instead the chaotic beauty of their in-between spaces. 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