Ophelia, Retold

Ophelia, Retold gathers language from Shakespeare, art history, online commentary, and critical writing, then returns it through an AI-generated voice. The figure is not allowed to exist outside interpretation; she moves through a space made from what others have said.

The work asks what happens when description becomes infrastructure. Once a person or character has been summarized enough times, later systems inherit those summaries as if they were stable truth.

The rendered figure moves through a space built from descriptions that arrived before her, carrying the feeling of a body narrated from the outside. The work is less an adaptation than a record of how interpretation can become an identity when enough voices repeat it, archive it, and feed it back.

Single-channel video with 3D-rendered visuals and AI-generated voice, incorporating sourced text from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, academic writings, and online commentaries of Ophelia. 4K (3840 × 2160), 16:9, 1 min 17 sec, MP4.

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