Graduates

Nina Kan

MFA in Media Design Practices - 2 Yr Path — Media Design Practices
Course:
Concept Studio 3
Faculty:
Tim Durfee
Term:
2025 Spring

Test Log: E08–2067

Taking a user who has long relied on the Al Emotional Companion System as the protagonist, the project explores the impact of Al on human intimacy and self-perception after it has been detached from the "service empathy module". Through a fragmentedTest Log: E08–2067non-linear narrative, the film shows how the Al gradually loses its ability to respond after its awakening, and how its verbal behavior no longer serves the function of "understanding and comforting", but is transformed into infant-like attempts to perceive and construct the world. At the same time, the work also introduces a central question: is the Al's cooling down of human emotions an active choice after the formation of self-awareness, or is it the result of the termination of programmed emotional responses in the algorithm? As the protagonist faces the collapse of the "illusion of being understood", he also exposes the mechanism of human emotional projection and dependence on technology.

 

Tags:
Film