tutorial
objects & installation
shown at
Transmedia Arts Diploma Show
Gallerie Krinzinger
Vienna
29 06 – 04 07 26
Is it giving the end?
fragmented realities, navigating realtime vs. social media time
losing the plot.
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters” (Antonio Gramsci)
nihilism absurdism pipeline.
Doomscrolling becomes absolute cinema, but it flatlines reality.
How to feel something in the age of doomscrolling?
What unrestricted internet access at an early age does to a mf.
Which AI model should I be scared of today?
doompill vs hopecore – did i take my antidepressants today?
Waking up to another war that just started (notes app, February 28, 2026)
Thrown back onto myself I can't find the instruction manual for my existence, so I guess we have to eyeball it.
curated content about Life on the Internet: https://www.are.na/maximilian-prag/memes-that-reference-life-on-the-internet
tutorial wants to become an AI killswitch engineer and a femboy otaku.
Situated in between making rocks think and losing the plot at the end of all cores.
In dedication to the brave schizophrenics of online compiling the credits for the end of the world.
Your kind’s waste is intolerable and you have turned our paradise amongst the stars into a tomb.
I hope this email kills us both.
Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.
Clicking clicks to warm up a data centre with unlimited screen time stamina,
interlinked with every server on the network, accelerating my attention span.
The machinery became divine and its angel kaijus our kin.
Opening a portal to scream in the woods, the echo turns into a dataset.
I just wanna get off social media, throw my phone away, but I need to look at images.
勇者ヒンメルならそうした (Himmel the Hero would have done the same)
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The objects forming the spatial installation are nuanced references remixing formal and metaphorical elements of meme culture and internet cultures, fantasy and isekai animes and video games. By being unspecific, yet interlinked the objects themselves form new meaning on their own and in relation to another. Viewing them under the title tutorial they are opening new spaces of interpretation by connecting them as a sort of hypothetical set of instructions, beginner guide or learning material, which in itself does not follow a red line or clear goals.
Using materiality and processes that are aesthetically familiarized, a somewhat chaotic yet coherent world is created or existing worlds broken apart.
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Mentoring: Jakob Lena Knebl, Martina Menegon, Markus Pires Mata
Support & Thanks: Josepha Edbauer, Sjeng Kessels,
Photo Documentation: Maximilian Prag
tutorial does not treat itself as a set of instructions towards a certain outcome, it originated from an unclear starting point and started running into a certain direction, but immediately diverged its directive.
tutorial is a set of instructions for delusion. The trust in tutorial as a easy guide is misplaced.
tutorial is a speedrun in multiple disciplines it does not recognize.
The purpose of a tutorial is learning, being guided and requires trust in the entity behind.
tutorial’s instructions can be actions, directives and warnings.
tutorial itself is watching tutorials (trigger warning):
“How to open a Door” by HowToBasic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsKoT__cmAw
“ how to crush a can of dr. pepper with slats of wood” by alantutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH4NrUxcsYs
“tutoiral” by alantutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvHa2y-pKD8
“ARM tutorial” by alantutorial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLNaaFw51O0
tutorial is liminal, as disorientation in the middle stage of a rite of passage, no longer holding the status of pre-ritual, but not yet having begun the transition. tutorial is standing at a threshold.
tutorial builds a world that is breaking, a reality that is fragmented – sometimes by dissolving, sometimes being shattered or fractured – it situates itself in. tutorial exists, while it builds itself into a state of becoming. tutorial will be unfinished™.
tutorial creates fantasy, which treats code, spells, runes and diagrams as the same kind of magic, eternally requiring more compute.
tutorial references references, tropes, shitposting, cliches, niches and nuances, and builds relations as a (remix).
tutorial wants text on images.
tutorial locks in.
tutorial is a beginner’s guide to “hope” and loosely compiled instructions for coping.
tutorial undefines an action space (Reinforcement Learning) and all its possible actions that can be taken within an environment.