What Happens When the Puppet Cuts Its Strings?
2025
7 Minutes 43 Seconds
3D Animation, Projection Installation, Video Game
In Text Textures, agency is never fixed.
Does it belong to the developer who writes the code?
The player who triggers it?
The avatar who appears to resist?
Or the system itself — a tangled mesh of scripts, inputs, and unpredictable outcomes?
This video essay unpacks the shifting layers of control, autonomy, and resistance inside a world built entirely from code.