Memoriae ex Machina (2026)

“No more content creators. We need content destroyers” — reads a tweet that became a meme. Although the statement is primarily ironic, it nevertheless illuminates a fundamental problem of the post-internet era: the overflow of content (and its consumption), the inflation of meaning, which has become especially urgent in recent years with the proliferation of AI-generated content.

The conceptual premise of the installation is that the existence of a content-destroying entity can be imagined. This entity embodies the inverse of content creation — a phenomenon/construct with a single purpose: to eliminate content, whether memories, bodies of information, or even their interpretability and accessibility by humans. By its very nature, it must always remain hidden — for documenting its operation would mean the birth of new content. Assuming a state of equilibrium, one can imagine, opposing the content-destroyer’s activity, the existence of a counter-entity whose sole task is to archive the former’s operation (the destruction of content), to rescue content and memories.

In the installation, the signs pointing to the content-destroyer’s activity and existence unfold through the materials of its counter-entity, opening up a metaphorical space for speculation. The prints placed on the wall form a post-internet corpus of memory, in which the elements of classical remembrance are distorted and reconstructed through the experience of online spaces. On the computer on display, we can follow in real time the operation of an archiving, memory-rescuing algorithm, which stands atop heaps of the printed documents it has produced itself. And on a phone placed on another pile of paper, the rapid reeling-past and automated blurring of imagined and real, online and offline memories can be seen. The totality of personal and impersonal archives, datasets, and prints examines the post-internet experience of absence, loneliness, forgetting, and remembering.

exhibited at

• 2026, #CONNECTED, group exhibition, Deák17 Gallery, Budapest (HU)