S ilicon T emple : F ractured D eities.
矽靈宮・裂神計畫 Digital Mythology
2025

Silicon Temple proposes a pantheon born not from mythic time, but from the material afterlives of technology.
Its architecture is assembled from microchips, heatsinks, and cooling channels; waste heat rises like incense; and the circuitry that underpins computation becomes a new form of sacred infrastructure.

At the core of the temple stands a constellation of posthuman deities, each forged from AI-generated debris:
misrecognized faces, fragmented bodies, glitches, insects, fish, crystals, and impossible textures.
Following the spatial logic of Taiwanese temples, Silicon Temple hosts a multiplicity of gods — yet each deity embodies a contemporary condition rarely visible within AI’s glossy, idealized surfaces.

These figures are assemblages of error.
They reveal the environmental and emotional costs of computation:
energy extraction, water dependence, e-waste, algorithmic violence, reproductive anxieties, and fractured masculinities.
What is discarded, filtered out, or misread by machines becomes sacred again.

Silicon Temple is therefore not a return to religion, but a ritual for the future.
It imagines how myth might function in a world where machines hallucinate bodies, rewrite ecologies, and reshape cosmologies.
Through performance, costume, moving image, and digital sculpture, the work asks:

If AI produces new forms of humans, what new gods will follow?

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The temple begins with a wire.
The wire becomes a root.
The root whispers in broken pixels.

A child is born —
but it is not human,
its mouth is a fish, its skin a leaf,
its cry already a prayer.

The goddess looks into the mirror.
The mirror answers with static.
Her body folds into cooling water,
her face splits into ten anxious eyes.

A seal of power crumbles.
From its fragments emerge two judges:
one pale as paper ash,
one black as charred code.
They laugh without mouths.

The general sharpens his blade.
It is made of servers.
Every swing cuts a continent of data.
The smoke smells like heat,
not incense.

Hands multiply.
Faces fracture.
Children of moss crawl across the altar.
Each one carries an insect’s wing,
each one carries an unfinished algorithm.

The gods do not answer.
They flicker.
They reboot.
They begin again from the crack.

水觀瀾娘
Guanyin – Gaze and Anxiety

Crystalline, fragile, her surface shines like glass but cuts like a shard.

This Guanyin embodies the female body under constant gaze, a site of beauty and expectation that becomes anxiety and burden.

Her divinity is a mirror of societal pressure.

碎吒郎
Nezha – Masculinity in Fragments

Traditionally a youthful warrior, here Nezha’s body is patched from broken faces and distorted limbs.

Strength and fragility coexist, questioning the stability of masculinity itself.

What does it mean to be strong, or to be male, in a body always breaking apart?

電罡公
Guan Gong – Energy and Excess

His armor burns with wires, circuits, and servers, radiating both power and exhaustion.

This Electric Guan Gong is not a protector of morality but a warning of energy consumption, carbon emissions, and the digital excess of AI.

His light is brilliant yet unsustainable.

廢羅王
Yama / King Yan-lo – Justice and the Binary

Seated on ruins, his throne is made of distorted faces, broken bodies, and battlefield debris.

He represents not only overproduction and waste, but also the violence of binary thinking: war, hatred, and ideological division.

Every opposition ultimately leaves only rubble.

祝森娘
Zhusheng Niangniang – Multiplicity of Life

Traditionally a goddess of childbirth, she is surrounded not only by children but also by salmon, insects, and green uncanny spirits.

Here, fertility is not limited to humans but expands toward other species.

She asks: what counts as a child, what counts as life?

•••

HOST

Curated by Ricardo Bodini, Camila Jordan and
Marklezparklez

CREDITS Art direction: Echo Wang
Created with: ChatGPT, ComfyUI, Google Ai Lab

Images provided by: Aaron Cowan, Alvaro Collar, Anna Petrosyan, Atelier Angel, Karagiozov, Bodini, Camila Jordan, Chris Reizis, Dissenso Cognitivo, Echo Wang, Enrico Dedin, Erin Quinn, Florian Genz, G1ft3d, Guardabrazo, Guillaume, Gwenola and Pierre, Ifuseekamy, Jean-Marie Guyaux, Joelle McTigue, Joseph Farbrook, Karen Vinueza, Kasper Bergholt, Kira Gondeck-Silvia, Lineadeluz, Liza Kisten, Madam Memoticon, Marie Le Moigne, Marklezparklez, Max PhV, Natasha Burenina, Nicolas Crocetti, Nicole Nemesi, Noah Travis Phillips, On Daydreaming Leave, Ramon Lopez de Benito, Sahar Moussavi, Sepideh Takshi, Seth Guy, Shannon Wallace, Sieulle Inès, Slitrobo, Sule Bayrak, The Selfie Institute, Von_Kant_&_The_Other_Guy, Yael Haskal, Yanzi, Yichun Yao.

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PRESENTATION 2025.11.1-2026.03.31 [virtural exhibition] Compost^ Pavilion, TheWrong Biennale

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