Neon Parc

At the core of SIGNAL ROT are AI-generated videos created by Rafman and a small team, showcasing how new technologies enable artists to accomplish what once demanded vast resources. The installation features “Catastrophonics,” a groundbreaking series by Rafman’s musical creation Iron Tears. This four-part work seamlessly stitches AI-manipulated disaster footage into hypnotic sequences that embody themes of technological mediation and collective trauma. Viewers experience these videos from within a recreated sinking car interior, an enclosed space that intensifies feelings of voyeurism and vulnerability, challenging our relationship with mediated disaster and blurring the line between observer and participant in our screen-dominated reality.

Referencing the communal experience of MTV’s golden age, the work collapses nostalgia and automation, blending human creative direction with synthetic imagery. What emerges is a hybrid space where cultural memory is reshaped, reflecting the ways digital platforms recycle, manipulate, and fragment the visual lexicon of contemporary life.

Blurring the boundaries between art, media, and machine-generated storytelling, SIGNAL ROT interrogates the accelerating cycles of production and consumption in the digital age. The installation immerses viewers in a hypnotic, disorienting environment—one where meaning is fluid, images mutate in real-time, and the past is endlessly reconfigured. Rafman’s practice continually probes the shifting intersections of the virtual and physical, revealing how artificial intelligence, internet culture, and media saturation shape perception. SIGNAL ROT is a meditation on the fate of cultural memory in an era of infinite reproduction, asking what is lost—and what is created—in the endless churn of algorithmic storytelling.