Experiment 8 / Identity Contagion

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Repeated micro-actions, like key presses, incrementally shape how a system recognises a user, suggesting that identity emerges from behavioural patterns rather than complete narratives. This experiment explores how identity is gradually constructed through accumulated keyboard interactions.

Visually, this identity appears as a spreading, disease-like form across a human silhouette. It is organic, yet unsettling, to reflect how datafication operates quietly and persistently. What begins as isolated inputs accumulates into a dominant presence, mirroring how everyday actions are continuously captured and formed into a system-defined identity.

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