Circa 2020

An Archive of a Year in Overload

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January
The Unstable Signal

A failing news broadcast from the precipice of a global shift, struggling to process overlapping crises.

February
The Quarantine Signal

The world flattens into a screen as the virus becomes the dominant signal, corrupting all other news.

March
The Shutdown Signal

The system is unplugged. A digital calendar of a future that was abruptly cancelled, leaving a frozen void.

April
The Mortality Signal

A vital signs monitor glitches, no longer tracking a heartbeat, but the relentless, climbing death toll.

May
The Fractured Signal

The pandemic's narrative is shattered by a new signal of protest, breaking through the cracks of a fractured reality.

June
The Signal Bleed

A global data map is overwhelmed and stained by the signal of a worldwide protest movement.

July
The Dissonant Signal

A geopolitical monitor fractures under the strain of competing global crises, creating a jammed, incoherent signal.

August
The Shockwave Signal

A catastrophic explosion becomes a glitch in reality, its shockwave corrupting all other news signals in its path.

September
The Corrupted Atmosphere

The world is viewed through a toxic, orange haze as wildfires and political poisonings corrupt the very medium of perception.

October
The Corrupted Transmission

An unstable news broadcast is hijacked by a chaotic, unreliable narrator, making truth impossible to discern.

November
The Contested Reality

An electoral map becomes unstable, flickering between a declared result and a contested one.

December
The Mutating Signal

A clean signal of hope—the vaccine—is immediately infected by a new variant, a cure corrupted at its creation.

The Year 2020
The System Overload

A synthesis of a year defined by simultaneous crises. A 3D memory dump of a world where all signals turned to static at once.

The Year 2020
The Reconstructed Signal

A counter-narrative of resilience and repair. An interactive simulation of a corrupted data file being healed in real-time.