My project is a personal exploration of my own relationship with current technological advances and its significant cultural, psychological, and individual impacts as consequences. By tracking personal data of different aspects of my private life, my project consists of an audiovisual projection which showcases a data visualization-based composition where I intend, not only to express personal inner conflicts, dilemas, and tensions, but also the importance and influence technology has on it.

My project tries to be a portrait of a specific period of my personal and professional life but I also like to think of it as a creative tool for self-knowledge and self-exploration.



The title for my project comes from the programming language I’m using to produce it (the Java-based Processing environment) where “+=” represents a value increment. Applied to my concept, for each software iteration, the variable “machine” (technology) is added to the variable “man” (myself).