Note №6

I See, Therefore It Exists

18 February, 2025

This project aims to present an image of psychotechnologies to people.

More broadly, it represents the culmination of work carried out over the past ten years, encompassing research into religion, philosophy, technology, and art, along with a wide range of concepts and ideas oriented toward identifying a new temporal fault line.

The result will constitute another step within a conditional sequence of deliberately constructed turning points, the previous one being The Mother of All Demos. Each such attempt to bring the next era closer presents future systems as if they already exist, thereby rendering them real.

In this sense, Engelbart did not create a technology but produced a conceptual shift in human consciousness, after which computer interfaces ceased to be code and became a space for thought. They aligned with human cognition and made it possible to work with it through association and nonlinearity.

The interface thus became not an object, but a symbol of an object, in much the same way as Duchamp’s urinal.

Similarly, perceptual interfaces will open a path toward engaging with more subjective aspects of human experience and translating them into an objective domain. Here, the act of implementation is less important than the articulation of an image, since such technologies must first emerge within human imagination.

My work focuses on creating symbols capable of articulating this vision and generating a sense of its completeness and credibility. The outcome will be presented in a new presentational form that reflects a hypothesis about our future.

Much as Engelbart himself embodied the future, seated in a tailored suit at a desk within a digital office, the context he inhabited functioned as a symbol defining the aesthetic principles of post-industrial society.