FALLEN SUNDOWN

In contemporary Western society, where daily life is predominantly mediated by digital interfaces, ranging from smartphones and workplace monitors to classroom projectors, the boundary between fiction and non-fiction has become increasingly porous. This pervasive digital mediation raises critical epistemological questions regarding the perception of physical reality: how is the concept of "landscape" interpreted when the distinction between mediated fiction and tangible fact dissolves? As human subjects become increasingly detached from the natural world and integrated into cyborgian existences, the phenomenological encounter with nature undergoes a profound transformation. Ultimately, this prompts an inquiry into how aesthetic phenomena, such as a sunset, are experienced through a cybernetic sensorium, and whether technologically mediated perception can ever replicate the affective resonance of the natural phenomenon itself.