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Distributed Mind Test 2023

Distributed Mind Test (2023)

Video game. 

Set within a sprawling post-apocalyptic landscape in which all traces of humanity have been wiped, a single creature —one that exists somewhere between body and mind, language and dreaming—has survived. Relics like memory boxes unearth fragmented stories of how this world came to be. Mysterious animals lurk behind portals in a multi-dimensional game of hide and seek.

Players must familiarise themselves with the ruined landscape and work together to control the colossal creature at the centre of this multiplayer game. It is only through learning to collaboratively navigate the beast and explore this landscape that its secrets will be revealed. Distributed Mind Test pushes the limits of how we conventionally understand intelligence and instead experiments with the possibilities that non-verbal and shared intelligence can offer.

Made with support from Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève – Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement 2024

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