BrainRot: Live Public Presentation at Alt_R

Join us for our 𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙍𝙤𝙩 live public presentation at Alt_R, this Saturday 21st December 2-8pm. Pop in anytime throught the day to see and test out the work developed during our BrainRot games Jam on our LED wall, and share an end of year drink with us.

17 artists took part in our BrainRot Games Jam, which took place online over 2 weeks:

Celeste Viv Ly  /  Chris Macinnes  /  Dane Sutherland  /  Faysal Mroueh  /  Freddie Sanders  /  Gökçe Göbüt  /  Letao Chen  /  Louisa Teichmann  /  Louis Mason  /  Melle Neiling & David  /  Mathieu Bissonnette  /  Henrique Palmeirim Lázaro  /  Ryan Cherewaty  /  Samuel Capps  /  Toni Quiroga  /  Yanzi

The work developed during the games jam responded to our BrainRot theme:

Reeling from a feed of conceptual incoherence; a viral stream of nonsensical knowledge slop, pumped directly into your brain. You exist in an unpleasant haze suffering from chronic chaos edits, addicted to quick dopamine hits in a spiralling compulsion loop of shallow engagement, constantly overstimulated through ‘breakdown aesthetics’. A cyberpsychosis triggered by artificially regurgitated copypasta content, fears and anxieties of our fractured realities reflected back at us, as we’re sucked deeper into a virtual black hole of meaningless brain rot internet dis-content. Despotic platforms min-maxing their builds to hegemonize your engagement and farming your attention through an eerie mesmeric void of rapidly changing frames, captivated by flashing, flickering time poachers.

❤ PROMPTING YOU TO ENGAGE

A cursed content overload of weird pointless junk saturates your cerebrum in a game of hyper-distraction, corrupting consciousness with rotating cats and satisfying slime ASMR. Overthrown by the rise of a Dead Internet and artificial realism, the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and unintelligible automatically generated Captcha Content - I am not a robot, I’m just terminally online, and I do not want to consume random pages ripped from the AI generated Library of Babel. Nothing is real, we bathe in a slurry of time stealing bull-shit content, an algorithmic curated culture for the uncultured, fame for the unfamous, our doom scrolls written by illiterate influence.

❤ CONTENT INCONTINENCE

Cultural and societal collapse of conspiracy theories, born from shitposting memelords. A utopian dream turned to a nightmare future where rage baiting content manipulates emotions and dank memes have bigger audiences and reach than any artwork ever shared on social media. The internet constantly exposes the extraordinary, so everything IRL seems boring, enhanced images destroy self confidence just in time for you to subscribe to a new online guru’s self help seminar. Are we going to look back on our time in this age and wonder why we wasted our lives away? Once we surfed the waves of the web in awe of the information to be found, now the water is so badly polluted with sewage that we become sick once we fall in.

❤ YOUR BRAIN IS COOKED