The Library of Unlived Moments is a speculative media art installation that explores the collapse of a future world in which all possibilities are simultaneously accessible. Drawing on Borges’ metaphysical imagination and the elite’s obsession with achieving eternal life by hybridizing human consciousness with artificial intelligence, the work presents a fragmented archive of an abandoned experiment: a meta-physical “limbo”–a system designed to perfect one’s next life by allowing individuals to simulate and reflect on every unlived scenario from their previous existence. This work explores the unintended consequences of merging AI omniscience with human fragility. It questions the promises of optimization, unlimited knowledge, and perfect memory, and asks what remains when agency, time, and identity collapse into endless loops of possibility.
The work was presented at ARS ELECTRONICA 2025 Festival : PANIC. https://ausstellungen.ufg.at/alles-immer-offen/project/unlived-moments/
Credit:
Doros Polydorou, Hooman Samani , Sarah Selby , Evelina Pavlovskaya Marios Zonias , Stavros Kazakos , Anna Demosthenous, Nour M. , Katerina Kaisidou , Konstantinos Kafkalias , Dimitris Zonias , Eleana Iacovou, Eleni Karoglou, Artemis Karamani , Andra Panainte, Myrto Aristidou
Link on Ars Electronica:
https://ausstellungen.ufg.at/alles-immer-offen/project/unlived-moments/
Hooman Samani 