Purgatory Edit, methodology

This video, shot after the premiere of purgatory EDIT at transmediale studios, Berlin (DE) in January-February 2025, explains its process-driven, multifaceted aspects.

What is going on?

purgatory EDIT: Liberation Archive for the Cyborgs of Now is a complex archival project shaped as a user-generated montage-based cinematic experience, highlighting long-term and deliberate methods in which digital technologies enforce subliminal visual manipulation, sensory overload, data fatigue, psychological reaction, and ideological numbness. It invites its audience as participants to enter a technomediated Cyber Performance through which they investigate the Doomscroll Archive via a ‘brainware’, a Brain Computer Interface (BCI), and an audio-video processor (software*-as-artwork* custom-built by the PE team).