Streaming Egos at the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf, curated by Mateo Feijoo with the support of the Goethe-Institut, radically reframed the notion of digital identity by rooting it in the corporeal, affective, and collective. Central to the Spanish contribution was the “body bubble,” an inflatable translucent structure that acted as both metaphor and medium: a web-uterus, fragile and responsive, which deflated when its vaginal entrance was held open, allegorising the vulnerability of communal digital spaces. Within this permeable enclosure, diverse artistic gestures—Sonia Gómez’s intuitive live writing, Monoperro’s erotic cave-like drawings, Tomoto’s simultaneous editing and streaming, and Dr. Kurogo’s off-site sound loops—wove a layered post-digital happening, where analogue and virtual blurred into one continuous, unstable field. The event did not seek resolution but activated a situational essay, a space where identity could be explored not as fixed or datafied, but as fleshy, rhythmic, and mutable. The work resisted the fetishisation of digital media, instead enacting a ritual of presence, echoing Cramer’s claim that the post-digital is less about technological novelty and more about inhabiting its messy aftermath. Streaming Egos thus became a choreography of interdependence, refusing singular authorship or stable meaning. It asked not “who are we online?” but “how do we breathe together through the screen?”—inviting a critical reimagining of the digital self as haunted, plural, and porous.
