We’re so Over, We’re So Back

It never ends. We’re inside of a systematic machine that gorges itself on blood. It invents and pays for new ways of wreaking havoc. Ending lives with engineered precision. Though it’s as advanced as anything that has ever been, it’d been around longer than any poem, any culture, any thing. It’s war, and we’re giving it over to machines.

Born to die, We’re So Over, We’re So Back.

The main body of this media activated sculpture takes the form of a custom-built water-cooled PC contained within an aluminum casting of an ouroboros. The aluminum casting serves dual purposes as framing the PC and as the radiator for the water-cooling loop, the heat generated warming the form of the snake to body temperature. Running on the hardware is an ever-looping game of modded Counter Strike, set up so that two adversarial bots spawn in, fight, and die endlessly against the backdrop of non-descript battlefields.

2025 - Cast aluminum, laser cut clear acrylic, brushed ACM panel, 3D-printed PLA, aluminum angle adapters, aluminum barb fittings, stainless steel hardware, polypropylene tubing, AMD Ryzen™ 5 5600, Gigabyte A520I, Gigabyte RTX™ 3050 OC Low Profile 6G, Corsair Vengeance® LPX DDR4-3200, Crucial® P3 Plus 500GB , Enhance ENP-7660L-OVT, EK Supremacy AX CPU block, XSPC QX5 Photon 170, Tygon® clear tubing, EK-CryoFuel Solid Scarlet Red, modified Alphacool Eisfluegel Flow Indicator, Alphacool ES Flow and Temperature Indicator, modified Alphacool Core temperature sensor, anti-kink springs, Noctua NF-A4x20, PCIE extender, 3D printed TPU, push-to-connect fittings, Bulgin momentary switch, laser cut aluminum brackets, aluminum cleats, heat-set inserts, M2F HDMI Cable, IEC C14 inlet, SPST Switch, Arch Linux, and modded Counterstrike Source.

28 x 24 x 6”

If you’re interested in how this piece was made, a full build log can be found here - [blog]