From a visual perspective, Portal appears to follow a confused and curious cockatoo on a never-ending quest navigating through uncharted digital wilderness. The looping artwork contemplates the ways in which continuous advancements in technology and natural language processing (NLP) alter how intelligent beings interpret experience and interact with various planes of existence. The semantical looseness of the phrase 'intelligent beings' is purposeful: intended to question presiding conceptual frameworks for consciousness and ontology rooted in anthropocentrism. These notions seem to function as both extensions of and rationales behind concurrent power dynamics, with human dominance depicted as a fundamental truth. By daring to shatter epistemological boundaries, Portal offers an escape from such paradigms.
