LORECORE

We are surrounded by systems that count, catalogue, compare and calculate us. Algorithmic oracles promise security and provide control. But what myths surround these systems? LORECORE is a live-generated computer game essay performed by three performers and a robot cat, with a live musician and a gamer.

The performance looks into the machinery of myth-making around the big tech companies, and into the reflective surfaces of the gadgets that surround us, to see what is happening in plain sight: the creeping convergence of algorithmic control and far-right ideology, the death of the old internet and the rise of techno-fascism.

The title borrows a concept coined by Shumon Basar: in an era of collapsing grand narratives and rampant digital capitalism, lorecore names our compulsive need to perform and mythologize ourselves — the very impulse these systems exploit.