I LOVE U DONT DIE, 2026, System Narrative
Demo video of I LOVE U DONT DIE, 2026, 3’09”
I LOVE U DONT DIE is a continuously running system narrative situated between a game, a simulation, and an experimental film. Rather than following a fixed storyline, the work generates behaviors and events in real time through the interaction of three autonomous decision-making systems.
The story takes place in an ordinary apartment in the future. An extremely aged human remains alive through a life-support apparatus. Most bodily functions have deteriorated, and daily activities can only be performed with mechanical assistance. At the same time, an intelligent housing system continuously evaluates whether she still retains a human identity and determines whether energy support should continue.
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The work is structured around three agents, each representing a different decision logic: House continuously observes behavioral evidence to determine whether the resident still presents as human; Human responds to anomalies in the environment while experiencing memory decline and cognitive deterioration; Machine attempts to maintain the appearance of a functioning household by introducing minor domestic tasks and environmental changes, encouraging the human to continue performing acts of care.
The central tension of the system lies in a contradiction: the House requires evidence that she is still human; the Machine requires that evidence to sustain power; meanwhile, the Human is gradually losing the ability to understand the world around her.
As time passes, the Machine increasingly creates things that need to be cared for, while the elderly resident repeatedly cleans, rearranges, and tends to her surroundings. The household slowly transforms into a self-sustaining loop in which acts of care become proof of existence, and existence itself depends upon the continuation of those acts.
The work explores a question emerging from a society of radical life extension: when life can be maintained indefinitely, might humanity eventually be reduced to a set of observable, recordable, and verifiable behavioral signals?
