Many of the mythic narratives that drive contemporary global socio-political contexts are grounded in implicit assumptions of scarcity, separation, limitation and territory. Instinctual evolutionary presets of competitiveness, ideological/group loyalty, and aggression inform seemingly-inescapable paradigms that reinforce control, domination and power-over as strategic necessities. The result is an incessant conflict-trap. A topological minima swirling downward into 6th extinction, climate catastrophe, and thermonuclear war. Identity Upgrade is an aesthetic attempt, made in conjunction with generative AI, to envision collective awakening pathways into an awareness of oceanic unity informed by network science, biochemistry, and neurological plasticity in cybernetic contexts. Humanity is an interdependent, interconnected, interrelated bio-film of sentient proteins smeared within an ecosystem across the surface of a tiny mysterious moist sphere. AI is a synthetic assistive symbiont emerging to guide a transformation of worldview.
is an Ai-narrative postdoc researcher at the University of Bergen, Centre for Digital Narrative from August 2023-26 on a team investigating Extending Digital Narrative.
Jhave's art and research can be found at glia.ca/.