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Overload is a spatially led animated short film that transforms online storage into a surreal memory space shaped by human emotion and machine management. Using spatial storytelling as its main narrative method, the film follows a digital hoarder’s perspective as she enters her own cloud storage, allowing the audience to experience this memory space as an unfolding journey. It presents cloud storage as a place where memories, emotional bonds and platform logic are held together, revealing how fear of loss and the desire to preserve everything can gradually turn into anxiety, disorder and a loss of control.
Cloud storage creates an illusion of limitless capacity, encouraging indiscriminate saving that erodes our ability to organize, interpret, and assign meaning to memory. This project translates this overlooked condition into a narrative visual journey, exploring how storage systems reshape memory and emotion.
In the exhibition, visitors encounter a looped animated short film that begins with a familiar cloud storage interface and unfolds into a surreal digital memory landscape. Invisible processes such as sorting, compression, forgetting, corruption, and emotional reconnection become visible through data creatures, a memory forest, system scans, layered data sedimentation, and digital ruins.The project reframes cloud storage as a narrative environment shaped by human emotion and machine logic. Through the Biomorphic Information
Aesthetic, interface structures, data processes, and user anxiety are translated into spatial forms and ecological systems. In this speculative cloud space, data emerges as living entities and landscapes, prompting reflection on digital habits and the emotional weight of stored memory.
The vision of Overload is to reveal the fragility of digital permanence and question human agency within automated memory systems. As total preservation becomes the norm, it asks whether meaning dissolves without intentional choice, proposing that memory endures not through accumulation, but through deliberate selection and reconnection.
Central Saint Martins Shows 2026
This project was conceived, designed, and produced as a graduation project at Central Saint Martins. It was first presented at Central Saint Martins Shows 2026 (18–21 June). It was also included in a curated screening event themed Techno Memories, where it was discussed with visitors and peers.
