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As you pore through this site, effortlessly and unquestioningly synthesising the thousands of pixels which illuminate the front portal of a boundless, wildly complex web, it’s likely you can agree that as a society we are deeply entwined with the digital realm. We are increasingly forced to be more than human, whether we want to or not. Our identities sucked into the digital domain, splintering into virtual counterparts that exist alongside our physical selves.

Our experiences are enhanced or augmented as we interact with this world through artificial interfaces, blurring the boundaries between corporeal and synthetic environments. Computer scientist Ray Kurzweil speculates that in the distant future, the human species might withdraw into an entirely virtual world, leaving robot avatars to safely interact with the physical world on our behalf. If we understand this to be the new mode of ‘being’ do we also need to recalibrate our notion of what is ‘real’?

Within this theme students have considered how we can navigate this paradigm shift. Where are the boundaries of the self when we create digital identities? Does ‘being human’ matter? What is the nature of ‘being’ without physical dimensions? How have relationships changed as a result of the internet? What are the potential consequences of AI?

Spanning topics such as social media, posthumanism, gamification, artificial intelligence, human-machine interfaces and augmentation, and their social, ethical, or practical consequences, these projects consider how online identities can be plural or flexible and the ways in which we define ourselves as human or other.

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67 Projects for Being Digital

Image showing the design of Sparky the AI Companion

SPARKY

Sparky is not just an AI robot; Sparky is a companion on the journey of childhood development, helping young minds thrive!
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sushi mask

Food Resonance in Metaverse

Exploring the effects of food the the future Metaverse.
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Product layout

TOUCHIFY

Redefining the Art of Connection
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Digital Identity samples in NAME GAME

NAME GAME

What is your digital identity?
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An edible booklet with cloud image laser cut into page

Future Dolls

Editing the Swallow Function, Eating the Cloud. An edible booklet, a video of Future Dolls eating the booklet, screen-printing, and oil painting.
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Material Ecology

Material Ecology

Visualising label information into digital landscapes.
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70% virtual digital design cover

70%

The Digital Consumption Revolution
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Bready

Oh my Bready!

Bready combines a traditional bread image with the latest digital innovations to cultivate a unique image on social media platforms.
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Excretive leftover

Excretive leftover

A dialogue between digital rubbish and the boundaries of the body
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Board game kit

#CoupleGoals

#CoupleGoals game challenges couples to measure their relationship against Instagram's ideals, encouraging them to question these standards
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Main page of the virtual exhibition of <(PLEASE) DO NOT DISTURB>

(PLEASE) DO NOT DISTURB

<(PLEASE) DO NOT DISTURB> is an immersive journey into a tranquil sanctuary amidst the chaos of the digital age.
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The image contains an underwater fountain and a school of swimming fish.

Peace Nap Oasis

Peace Nap Oasis is a wellness project dedicated to creating peaceful spaces for recovering sleep and relaxation.
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Outstretched hand interacting with the tree sculpture; projection in the background.

(Arbo)Real Networks

Interactive installation exploring the significance of nonverbal forms of communication in an increasingly virtual world.
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Calm,my product poster

Calm,my : Mental health AI Assistant

This project aims to create a Mental Health AI Assistant that understands users and helps them lead healthy and vibrant lives.
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A pop-up tab with a three dimensional cartoon character with brown long hair and a blue hiker hat waving at the viewer.

Kookie Mask

Kookie Mask is a plugin for a web browser that masks your cookie data and protects your information and movements while online.
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A vinyl record in gray packaging with an intricate pattern.

Utopia and Dystopia

How might one describe Utopia, or indeed Dystopia?
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Entoptic phenomena known as ‘Afterimage

Afterimage

Entoptic phenomena known as 'Afterimage'
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A photo of 3 group members walking in Hampstead Heath.

Walks In Progress

A book of prompts for the everyday wanderer
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Here is some screenshots of our video.

Framing Memory

Panopto Link: https://rca.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=0876307d-7433-4168-96c1-b14b0187b3a8
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We are Made of What we Forgot

The short film “We are Made of What we Forgot” delves into the concept of memory digitalization.
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We built this installation for our research theme about Deepfakes in the world of Disinformation.

Digital Mirage: Exploring Lost Identities

The work serves as a metaphor for the digital world to emphasise the significance of self-identities in a world of shifting realities.
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This is a image with a white background and a green halo with the tittle of the project "Blank Spaces". by Clover Studio

Blank Spaces

BLANK SPACE is a collective workshop methodology that aims to envision a speculative future of unused/abandoned spaces across London.
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Echoes of the Inner Cosmos

Echoes of the Inner Cosmos

In this fast-paced world, we often overlook the voice deep within us, losing the ability to deeply connect with our true selves.
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Imaging a future metaverse: a virtual world where people transfer identities as goods in circulation

We envisioned a future in which virtual identities are commodities, but susceptible to copying or theft.
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An electronic wishing well that can be interacted with and spread out blesses

Wishing Well

Build a low-cost and efficient way for people to seek psychological comfort, reduce anxiety, and give them positive psychological cues.
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data distribution, colour theories, research methodology, colour experiment

What are they taking from us?

Understanding how data distribution works in the social media world we live in, digital identities and personas, and colour experiments.
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mental body

Eyevolution

Using the eye as a miniature carrier to explore the transcendence and evolution of bodily boundaries.
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Shape of Chaos

An exploration of the tampering of collective memory
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1/15 of The Glimpse of Paracosm.

The Glimpse of Paracosm

An archived image series that aims to raise awareness about the unpredictability of human evolution from technological development.
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A neon, 3D bloom radiates in swirling blues, greens, pinks, and purples, with BEYOND_MORTALITY in white at the bottom.

Beyond Mortality

Beyond Mortality explores the digital afterlife where our essence lives eternally online, forming an intricate web of our enduring identity.
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This work explores the dual meanings of 'mouse', which conveys how human attitudes towards the virtual world have changed.

Era’s Footprint: From Mice to Clicks -2024

This work explores the dual meanings of 'mouse', which conveys how human attitudes towards the virtual world have changed.
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FOMO: The Social Connection Game

FOMO: The Social Connection Game

FOMO is a card game from the future. It is the newest ‘Social Media Platform’ in 2040.
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Hero shot of AR/VR glasses for the future: Scout

Scout

Close the Gap Between Reality and Virtual Reality
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Standing big and bold like a monolith on a neutral background, a monitor displays a white waveform against its black screen.

Decay: Monitors/Monoliths

Rethink Screen Consumption: Striving for a Sustainable Future in a World Obsessed with Tech Upgrades and Disregarded Waste.
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Faith in AI God provides a way for humans in the information gap to find comfort and hope in the face of adversity and challenge

AI GOD

Faith in AI God provides a way for humans in the information gap to find comfort and hope in the face of adversity and challenges.
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The scenario of charging the product at home and the supporting mobile phone application

White Wave

This is an art therapy platform where users can create their own white noise.
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Chinese Wu-shaman Moutain is named Wushan（ 巫山, "WU"（ 巫 ）means Wu-shaman, and "SHAN"（ 山 ）means mountains.

Cyber WU

Cyber WU is a virtual blessing platform and space for contemporary spirituality
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The visualization of AI data centre

Visual Language of Data Centre

We aim to simulate the intricate mechanical core of an AI system by constructing a micro server system.
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Gladiator 2.0

Gladiator 2.0

The concept of Gladiator 2.0 merges fashion and fitness in a playful way through the use of an AR experience.
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Sounds in Translation: A digital sound bank where users upload sounds that they collected and see how the magic happen

Sounds in Translation

Our project delves into translating music into motion visuals, emphasizing emotions for people with hearing loss to sense music.
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