HyperTale

In a near future, the global networks have achieved an unprecedented level of automation and intelligence, but at the cost of almost all living biomes. In the brink of a planetary collapse, Gaia establishes an alliance with the singularity, nourishing a brand new ecosystem – hyperlinked to the once called internet of things.

Unaware of this ecopolitical agreement between nature and technology, most of humanity is maintained captive with the sole purpose of managing, producing and sharing images online. Continuously precarized and vulnerable, persons become users trapped in digital and physical platforms that profits from their emotions. But amongst those bright virtual mazes, dissident and outcasted users of the network claimed to have merged with images, transmutating what used to be commodities into valuable allies.

Their quest for freedom lies in the cooperation between virtual and physical users: a run against time before the point of no return, where both humanity and images are forever condemned to live in the eternal return of social media content sharing. While the planetary environment gradually rejects any trace of humanity, these new lifeforms will venture themselves deep into the datascape, in an attempt to reestablish the long lost connection between humankind, nature, and image.