Becoming Tamagotchis - My dystopic take on a 90s icon. Maya - Zbrush - Substance - Vray.
The Tamagotchi — a digital creature in a plastic shell, whose entire existence relied on our attention and our time.
Thirty years later, looking at my screen time on social media, I feel like I have become that "digital pet". We exist virtually as one another's Tamagotchis.
This project stems from this nostalgic and dystopian short-circuit.
Trapped in this crystal clear bubble, caught in an endless loop of compulsive scrolling and stimuli, I find myself crushed by a constant performance anxiety.
This feeling is now amplified by seeing a digital landscape where everything "seems already effortlessly generated".
I am terrified of missing out, of not being productive enough, to the point of losing something fundamental: boredom—that vital space for discovery—which barely exists inside me anymore.
On a deeper level, while the hunt for interactions keeps us digitally "alive," everything we produce—our art, our anxieties, our identities—has become pure nourishment for something that is alive and constantly growing.
Something that is shifting from a mere algorithm into something increasingly organic, taking root in this data with our anesthetized consent.
But hey, at least existential dread makes for great 3D practice. 👾