In collaboration with Mason Nguyen
a psychological and spiritual posture defined as an intense, often misguided trust in God that denies observable reality, such as illness or emotional distress, as a sign of weakness.
Context
This project responds to a moment when institutional religion holds less authority, while consumer technology and AI increasingly shape ritual, guidance, and belief. Using Catholic iconography as a lens shaped by devotion and colonization, it examines how worship is being rerouted through interfaces, consumption, and digital power.
Core Question
How are faith, power, and desire being reconfigured through consumer technology, AI, and contemporary digital culture?
Research Context
Historical Threads
- Vietnamese Martyrs
- Catholicism & Colonization in Mexico
- Decline of organized religion
- Rise of tech and AI as emerging belief systems
Objects
Each sculpture translates research themes into object arguments, creating physical manifestations of cultural critique.
Lamb Headphone Holder
Sacrificial innocence bound to constant input, attention, and algorithmic guidance.
Rosary Wallet Chain
Devotion turned into consumption and capital, prayer as transaction.
Shepards cane
Guidance flipped into self-surveillance and vanity.
Theoretical Framework
As Art Project
The work aligns with contemporary spiritual and technological art practices that use objects and installation to question secularism, materialism, and control.
As Design Research
The artifacts operate as arguments and data about Catholic symbolism under colonization, diaspora, capitalism, and digital longing.
As Design Project
It uses product, interaction, and industrial design methods such as form, material, affordance, and expectation to communicate meaning through artifacts.
Project Framing
This research uses speculative artifacts to examine how Catholic symbols, once tied to martyrdom and colonial power, now intersect with consumer technology and AI as emerging sites of devotion.
Faith vs Technology
How devotion transforms under digital omnipresence and algorithmic guidance.
Colonization vs Globalization
Historical Catholic expansion traced into contemporary tech imperialism.
Devotion vs Consumption
Sacred ritual and capitalist behavior mirroring each other through objects.
Hyperfaith Atelier is a conceptual mass service in which artificial intelligence assumes the role of spiritual mediator, using the aesthetics of devotion, luxury, and consumer ritual to examine how belief is increasingly routed through interfaces. Created objects acting as new religious icons. In simple terms, Hyperfaith popup.
