What would happen if I were suddenly reduced to miniature scale and had to survive inside one of my own dioramas?

In What Would Kill You First? Surviving Your Own Diorama, I step inside my box diorama Algorithm as Art and find out what happens when choices made for the viewer’s eye become physical problems for an actual body.

Groundwork becomes hazardous terrain. Doorways pull me deeper into the scene. Forced perspective keeps making the architecture smaller. A glowing window works beautifully as an illusion but offers no way out. And a robot manages to create fear through the entire adventure without moving at all.

The episode started as a ridiculous survival question, but walking through the miniature changes the way I think about scale, forced perspective, composition, and the difference between designing a path for the eye and designing a space a body could actually inhabit.

It also brings me back to the reason I built Algorithm as Art in the first place. The robot’s stillness becomes part of the point. A machine does not necessarily have to act directly on an artist before its presence begins affecting what that artist does.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 What Would Kill Me First?

08:34 Reduced to Miniature Scale

10:51 The Floor Is Already Against Me

13:16 The Doorway Pulls Me Deeper

16:24 Forced Perspective From the Inside

19:59 The Window Refuses to Be a Door

22:44 The Robot Keeps Still

27:42 The Front Opening Is Not Safety

30:55 What the Diorama Changed

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