extinct systems | Feb. 2025

In the dark corners of cyberspace, where the memory of extinct systems still lingers, a vision of digital decay emerges. This piece feels like a fragment extracted from a forgotten artificial intelligence, a remnant of a civilization that once depended on its technological creations until its own demise. It evokes a universe where organic matter has been replaced by synthetic structures in decomposition, as if the machine itself were experiencing its own entropy.

The concept aligns with the aesthetics of cyberpunk and the dystopian imagery of H.R. Giger, whose biomechanical forms fused the artificial with the grotesque. It also recalls the haunting impact of Zdzisław Beksiński, with his desolate landscapes and figures distorted by time. In contemporary digital art, it shares influences with the glitch experiments of Ryoji Ikeda, where technological errors become a visual language of ruin and collapse.

Here, decay is not only thematic but structural: the glitch becomes a metaphor for the death of information, a digital corpse fragmenting in its last attempt to exist.

Description: The image is divided into two chromatic poles: a deep green and a neon red, both clashing in a war of light and shadow. The central structure appears to be melting or decomposing, as if subjected to a slow disintegration, trapped in a state of data corruption.

The metallic texture of the forms evokes a torn synthetic skin, with cold reflections reminiscent of the dampness of a post-apocalyptic environment. Digital distortion effects, such as image glitches and interference patterns, suggest a catastrophic failure in the very existence of the visual file. Small fragments of light resemble dying bursts of information, as if the image were struggling to reassemble itself, failing at every attempt.

Author: Marco Antonio P.R.

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