You Are Not a Gadget

You Are Not a Gadget

You Are Not a Gadget

2D Animation

Exploring experimental processes as a means to create original form that resonates with the mood and content.
Produce a title sequence for one of three texts.

Year

2023

2023

Client

Student Project

Student Project

YOU ARE NOT A GADGET

Jaron Lanier


Modern digital technologies and online platforms can limit human individuality and creativity.
Lanier argues that systems driven by algorithms, social media, and collective thinking often reduce people to data points,
weakening personal expression and responsibility.
Lanier emphasizes that technology should serve to enhance human dignity and creativity,
rather than reshape humans to fit the constraints of machines.

CONCEPT

CONCEPT

KEYWORDS

  • Technology

  • Individuality

  • Singularity

  • Democracy

  • Sinister

  • Death

  • Waste

I wanted to visually reflect the book’s critique of how digital systems can blur or compress individual identity.

I used a cool, digital teal color palette to evoke the cold and impersonal atmosphere often associated with technological environments. To further explore this idea, I generated dozens of AI images based on a single prompt and composited them together so that their forms became ambiguous and difficult to distinguish.
This process mirrors the way large-scale digital systems aggregate data from many sources, often merging individual expressions into a single, indistinct result. By visually blending multiple images into one unclear form, the sequence suggests how identity and originality can become obscured within digital culture.

KEYWORDS

  • Technology

  • Individuality

  • Singularity

  • Democracy

  • Sinister

  • Death

  • Waste

I wanted to visually reflect the book’s critique of how digital systems can blur or compress individual identity.

I used a cool, digital teal color palette to evoke the cold and impersonal atmosphere often associated with technological environments. To further explore this idea, I generated dozens of AI images based on a single prompt and composited them together so that their forms became ambiguous and difficult to distinguish.
This process mirrors the way large-scale digital systems aggregate data from many sources, often merging individual expressions into a single, indistinct result. By visually blending multiple images into one unclear form, the sequence suggests how identity and originality can become obscured within digital culture.

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© Jisoo Park 2026

© Jisoo Park 2026

© Jisoo Park 2026