Digital Native_Code: Me and ChatGPT

This is an interconnected piece from a series of articles and poems on the biomediated body. Just as it weaves together a reflection on one’s identity in the era of data analytics and the story of a young girl exploring a young internet, the biomediated body weaves together the biological and the technological. It is a cyborg that embodies humanity and the digital ecosystem in which we thrive. In the reality depicted here, humans and media evolve alongside and through each other, feeding off one another in a way that eschews pre-existing dichotomies. Together we craft a new identity, one of the Digital Native, who, while in an age of surveillance and algorithmic meaning-making, uses these very tools to grant herself new agency(ies). Corresponding images generated by DALL-E 3 help tell the tale as only a fellow subject of this ecosystem can.