I haunt myself is a poetic exploration of how digital technology shapes personal memory. Combining self-shot and archival footage with a conversation between the artist and an AI doppelganger, the work asks whether forgetting is essential to remembering and questions the line between archiving and experiencing.

David Koh, 2025, audio-visual, (single-channel video), 4:16 mins
Drawing on Mark Fisher’s Hauntology, I haunt myself explores how memory and forgetting, presence and absence, and the ghosts of our digital lives shape who we are. In an age of overwhelming media and endless documentation, this work asks what it means to exist between an endlessly archived past and a future predicted by patterns. How does this near-constant documentation affect memory — does it preserve something important, or does it simply amplify the noise? Maybe memories need gaps and blurry edges?

In this work, I engage in a dialogue with my AI self, exploring what it means to be here, now.

David Koh is a Singaporean-American artist exploring the intersection of technology, humanity, and cultural identity through hybrid digital-physical works, interactive media installations, and web-based art. He earned his MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2023. David has exhibited internationally, including in Germany, Italy, the USA, France, and Mexico. He co-curated De-Oriented, featuring emerging Southeast Asian artists (London, 2022), and was an artist in residence at Objectifs Photography Centre (Singapore).

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