FACEPALM // TRAPPED IN THE AI TRASH CAN
SYNOPSIS & DIRECTOR BIO
FACEPALM: TRAPPED IN THE AI TRASH CAN
// LOGLINE & DEAD INTERNET THEORY
“The artist entity AI George forces us into an endless feed of artificial mishaps and literally denies us an exit—making the Dead Internet Theory tangible in the web’s most toxic social media simulator.”
// SYNOPSIS
FacePalm – Epic Fails Feed is not a social network—it is a digital prison, a scathing parody of the flood of “100% pure AI slop”, and a masterclass in Hostile Design. Greeting users with an initially upside-down interface, clunky robot-hand cursors, and sensory-overloading rainbow animations, the platform plays an infinite stream of synthetic “epic fails” populated entirely by phantom bot comments and fake metrics.
When you try to escape, the trap snaps shut: the [LOGOUT] button literally flees across the screen away from your cursor, proclaiming: “ERROR: You are trapped in the void forever!” Meanwhile, a relentless timer triggers flashing red hazard sirens once a CRITICAL BRAIN ROT LEVEL is reached—exposing a platform capitalism where the real “fail” is not the AI figures falling on screen, but the human staring blankly at the glass while an algorithm burns through their lifetime.
DIRECTOR BIO: Miguelangelo
// SHORT BIO (FOR THE FESTIVAL CATALOGUE)
Miguelangelo is a visionary digital artist and content creator whose creative journey spans over four decades. Beginning his career as a traditional airbrush artist in 1986, he continuously pushed the boundaries of visual mediums, evolving from analog paint into VR design, 3D world-building, and high-fidelity generative AI engineering.
Through his channel Miguelangelo TV, he has established a unique artistic signature that blends hyper-saturated “Cyberdelic” aesthetics with sharp, existential tech-satire. Known for his recurring digital avatar AI George, Miguelangelo’s work serves as a colorful, often ironic mirror to the human-machine relationship, treating advanced algorithms not just as tools, but as unpredictable, dreaming universes.
“With 'FacePalm', AI George holds up a grotesque mirror to endless scrolling—where humans are no longer the customers, but the resource whose attention is burned in data points.”