The act of creation is no longer confined to the hand, the brush, or the screen. As human intuition increasingly drifts within digital currents, creative gestures bleed into the data’s gaze, creating new ways of seeing and being seen. With each tap and click, we grant a new form of agency to the algorithmic fabric that surrounds more of our actions. The act of creating blurs into being created, entwined within these artificial networks that become authors, archivists, and curators of meaning.

Unfolding both as a lens and a mirror, Auto Obscura explores our roles as creators that perform actions of making, while we are narrativized into creations, entangled with systems that filter, frame, and reproduce our realities.

Creation begins with the human hand.

It is the first tool that translates thought into form; the first tool through which we shape intention, preserve memory, and express our identity. With each gesture of the human hand, making becomes an act of asserting narrative autonomy. Even as these gestures persist, we now have new mediators for our hands. Algorithmic systems rise to a role of collaborator, interpreting and reframing our existence. In this new state, our voices are distorted and redistributed within the system as some become louder while some are diminished into whispers. Amid this shifting terrain, the distinction between artist and tool, author and algorithm, begins to blur.

Creation becomes a recursive process in which humans and machines recompose one another.

The question of agency gives way to a meditation on perception itself: What it means to see and to be seen within a world that increasingly curates us in return?