This project aims to explore the ethical relationship between carbon-based life and silicon-based life through virtual auction scenarios, interactive devices and visual experiments, and reflect on the impact of the development of artificial intelligence technology on social value systems and human identity. The project envisions a future auction in which human remains, cultural heritage, digital consciousness, etc. are auctioned off, and the bidders may be silicon-based life or other non-human agents powered by artificial intelligence. In this immersive setting, the audience will experience the shock of being redefined as human identity and explore the ethical dilemmas that society may face in the future through interaction.
The core objectives of the project include:
· Exploring the challenge of technological progress in defining life:
The development of artificial intelligence, bionic technology and digital consciousness is reshaping the boundaries of life, and this project aims to provoke the audience to think about this issue through design.
· Reflecting on the limitations of anthropocentrism:
Assuming a future society in which humans are no longer at the apex of biological intelligence, but are redefined by a "post-human" civilization, this project will simulate the transformation of this social order through narrative and interactive mechanisms.
· Study changes in value systems:
If future agents have a different understanding of history and culture than humans, how can the value of cultural heritage and historical memory be reconstructed? This project seeks to explore how algorithms can give new value to objects through auction scenarios.
Figure 1：Silicon-based art works in different materials （Author's Homemade, 2025）
Figure 2：Film and Television works（Author's Homemade, 2025）
As modern technology advances, humans continually create new innovations but lack full control over them once developed. We can't predict when small, seemingly harmless changes could drastically alter our future, potentially even leading to humanity’s downfall.
Silicon-based biological definition: