is a real-time media artist working with game engines and space on the edge of reality, trust and faith.
is a real-time media artist working with game engines and space on the edge of reality, trust and faith.
Harmonia Ltd. (2025 - Ongoing)
Alternate reality game, conspiracy theory, events, video games, live music, performance.
Harmonia Ltd. is a biotechnologies company promissing Live Playtest Solutions™, an innovative quantum chip implant allowing you to test an infinity of simultaneous existences while only being aware of the best one. This existence is not necessary the best one for you, but for humanity as a collective entity, for harmony. If you love, kiss, kill or declare war, it was already computed as the best thing to do.
Harmonia Ltd. is a collective suspension of disbelief open to conspirators willing to gather or craft evidences through a variety of mediums. Photographers, novel writers, philosophers, mathematicians, game designers, and performance artists are invited to role play a world were one suspects half of the population being severed from mainstream reality.
Vincent Moulinet, Pam, Angelo Carreri, Tom de Peyret, Théo Casciani, Marie-Mam Saï Bellier, Danielle Brathwaite Shirley, Alice Bucknell, Jonathan Coryn, Alexander Jermilov, Cezar Mocan, Brandon Hare, Bulboka, Müt, Sahej Rahal, Alexis Salley, and more.
Chapter 1 - Proof of concept (june 2025)
The “Life Playtest Solution,” a quantum microprocessor he referred to simply as “LPS,” was allegedly being implanted in clandestine laboratories affiliated with Harmonia Ltd., grafted directly onto the thalamus of thousands of Asian subjects, and soon to be marketed to a European clientele. He said he needed someone in Paris capable of gathering potential customers used to experience alternative realities during a marketing event for the company.
These chips, he explained, would allow customers to experience an infinity of simultaneous realities, while remaining conscious only of the one determined to be optimal for humanity as a whole. Seeing his interlocutors fall silent, unsettled by the idea that reality, good, evil, and everything in between could be somehow computed by a single machine, “A” offered one last argument:
“If you love, kiss, or kill, it was already computed by the LPS as the best possible option within what you think is the unpredictable chaos of existence.”
Because the user’s consciousness shifts from one reality to another with no latency, it becomes impossible to perceive the effects of Harmonia’s technology. Once the LPS is implanted, nothing feels different; nothing seems out of place. Reality remains reality, and the memory of the procedure typically fades within a few hours. Even if strange intrusive thoughts become more frequent, it remains almost impossible to prove the implantation or even the actual functioning of an LPS through sensory experience alone. “A” needed to prove it to sell it.
Harmonia Ltd. had already taken possession of the space. Projectors hung from improvised scaffolds, connected to strange computers whose fans breathed with an almost animal warmth.
They streamed simulations and video games meant to represent worlds as real as any for Danielle Brathwaite Shirley, Alexander Jermilov, Brandon Hare, Bulboka, Sahej Rahal, Müt, Alice Bucknell, Jonathan Coryn, and Cezar Mocan. While some grabbed the networked rifle from She Keeps Me Damn Alive and fired frantically at the figures erupting from the scenery, others were sucked into the dopamine vacuum of Bluejeweled on a giant screen, their bodies framed by the furious silhouettes Selo, whose speakers spat heavy metal punctuated by desperate, almost ritualistic screams. Farther down the tunnel, two people struggled to tame the nocturnal creature from Distributed Mind Test, its movements slipping out of sync with their own while another carried her fainted children through the eternal snow of Polynia’s world. And, in a darker alcove where the projectors barely reached, two particles of antimatter were still trying, hopelessly, to find each other again on the horizon line of Small Void, trapped in a dance that seemed to belong as much to physics as to longing.
It had the proportions of an oversized smartphone, too large to be held, too small to become monumental. Beside it, resting almost shyly on a metal table, a small green device with the posture of medical equipment kept watch, its rounded edges absorbing the surrounding light. On its rotary dial, a six-branched curved emblem offered a silent invitation: to scroll, endlessly downward, through the CNEWS webpage spilling its continuous stream of information.
The tex, unsigned, claimed ties between Harmonia Ltd. and the megalomaniacal Neom project in Saudi Arabia, evoked its former outposts in charter cities never quite large enough to contain the density of its ambition, and mentioned in passing the mysterious correlation between the company’s birth and the overnight collapse of certain cryptocurrencies.
But the most unsettling detail appeared mid-stream: a live report on the disappearance of writer Théo Casciani and photographer Tom de Peyret, vanished somewhere in the mountainous margins of Chongqing, just after their stay inside one of the company’s implantation centers. Their disappearance was not framed as an incident but as a logical extension of the narrative: two figures slipping off-screen, carried away in the continuous hum of a world now too porous to distinguish an event from its digital double.