Graduation project
The Artificial Self
Lukas Völp
Who am I? What do I like? What do I need? Who likes me? These questions have developed a new layer of complexity within the highly individualised realities of today’s information society. Artificial intelligence now plays a role in the many acts of assessment and decision-making. How do we perceive ourselves through the rational filter of its algorithmic gaze? In The Artificial Self, the functional mechanisms hidden within the infrastructure of algorithmic computation are demystified by a constantly recreated portrait — a longstanding genre that has consistently captured the urgency of its time by raising questions about identity, intimacy, and morality.