Operating in the shadow of political turmoil and encroaching forms of yet unrealised technological control, the potential for a limitless horizon of selfhood becomes the slippery semiotics of a familiar subject navigating ever expanding territory… Utilising the mode of live transmission, The Hoping Mechanism was a hybrid digital performance which interrogated the ways in which the self is being produced across digital platforms as a result of technological promise, self-censorship, and algorithmic control.
