PURGR

We get upset when they lose power. After all, they keep us connected, navigate us through the world, help us partake in capitalist struggles, mediate our intimacy. But beneath their perfect surfaces, bad vibes simmer. Our phones are built on systems of extraction and exploitation. They keep weaving us deeper into a technofascist fabric of surveillance and algorithmic control. They facilitate the harvesting of our every tap, our every move, for quiet resale. Our phones are karmic catastrophes.

What if those negative energies could be cleansed? This work of speculative design invites viewers to detach from their phones and place them on the altar, where they undergo a purifying ritual.