The burner as monolith
Kubrick’s monolith was designed with formal, conceptual, and psychological aspects in mind, all elements of an essential in vivo precedent.
Formally, the proportions of the monolith corresponds to the 2.2:1 aspect ratio that the film was shot on.
Conceptually, the form relates to a black cinema screen, deposing film as a futuristic embodiment of human storytelling (and culture).
Psychologically, the monolith’s physical presence is minimalist (arguably modernist as well) as a means of simplifying its complex intention, removing unnecessary formal elements to draw attention to function and meaning.

The in vivo burner utilizes Kubrick’s monolith as a formal base to conceive new conceptual, and psychological intentions.
Formally, the burner uses the same proportions of the monolith to functionally repurpose an Apple Watch into a smart(dumb)phone. Modernist origin divulging into neo-brutalism through material and function.
Conceptually, Kubrick’s use of the cinema screen as embodiment of culture and connection; is adapted through the burner in an era of mass-consumption and digital authoritarianism. The burner is a new monolith, now representation of the humanity that is returned through revised form and function.
Psychologically, the burner’s neo-brutalist form becomes hostile architecture for the hand. Intentionally ignoring ergonomic benefits of organic design limit comfortable engagement with the burner and redirect attention to reality.



Ontologyin vivo refers to the condition of interpretation as lived, embodied, and situated within the sentient human subject. It names the ontological priority of the interpreter. Who, as Dasein, is already historically effected, prejudiced, linguistically constituted, and always-already within a horizon of meaning.in medio refers to the spatial, cultural, institutional, and aesthetic conditions that mediate experience before it is interpreted. It includes the material setting (gallery, street, archive), symbolic structures (ritual, tradition), and shared social horizons (language, institutions).
It is the middle condition between embodied being and abstracted representation.



in silico refers to all digital, encoded, and computational forms of mediation. It includes algorithms, databases, social platforms, Al systems, and digital artifacts. Its defining trait is not simply "technology," but abstraction from lived presence. Representation without embodiment.in vivo t available 011026

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