Dating Recession #02
When the "perfect match" provided by algorithms replaces human negotiation, real physical contact becomes as foreign and rejectable as an implanted object.
Four Evidence Materials
Evidence Level：L1 General Evidence
Work Overview
When the "perfect match" provided by algorithms replaces human negotiation, real physical contact becomes as foreign and rejectable as an implanted object.Two heavy vintage typewriters are placed facing each other, connected by tens of thousands of translucent optical fibres that resemble surgical sutures – they tangle in clusters but never truly make a connection.How to visualise the physical cutting of emotion by "technological mediation" without depicting screens or mobile phones?The rejection between digital perfectionism and physiological imperfections.M02 – Structural Loneliness and the Calcification of Intimacy.American / Western urban context.
Field Evidence
Drawn from real sampling of urban surfaces, old photographs, object textures, and site light.
Hand Intervention
Overlaying, repainting, deleting, and renaming reactivate authorial judgment within the image.
Algorithmic Inference
The algorithm generates relationships and variants, but does not make the final judgment.
Material Return
The final output returns to paper, canvas, or panel, completing its material embodiment.
