The `asciicap.py -r rogerbot` installation is an inquiry into the Terminal's capacity to reflect the world and its constituent entities.

As the first means of communication with computers, the Computer Terminal embodies the seminal core of human interaction with the digital realm. Humans created computers in their own image: their logic, their contradictions, their history and evolution have been fossilized in early protocols and standards such as RS-232, ASCII, ANSI X3.64, the VT100 series, and more recently Unicode. By using these technologies as a speculative mirror, the work seeks to expose latent fantasies about an emerging virtual world, casting a bridge to cross the uncanny valley.

Following the work of Gilbert Simondon and Yuk Hui, /guibog pursues the task of discovering new forms of technical individuation. His asciicap.py script opens a channel to allow exploration of the world of digital objects. Through code, encoding, computation, algorithm, the question of whether programs, protocols, databases, or even NPCs constitute distinct digital individualities may find an answer in the near future, hopefully before the advent of AGI.

Central to the installation is "Roger-Antonio PRK", the flying pig plush originally conceived for the 2025 Wuzhen Theater Festival. He serves as the eyes and brain for this installation, housing a webcam and a Raspberry Pi running the asciicap.py script.

As participants interact with their ASCII-transformed video stream, they may reflect on the differences and similarities between the world of human thoughts and the world of bits.

本装置作品名为 asciicap.py -r rogerbot。它探讨了计算机终端（Terminal） 映照世界及其构成实体的能力。

作为人机沟通的最初媒介，计算机终端承载了人类与数字世界交互的萌芽与核心。 人类参照自己的形象创造了计算机：人类的逻辑、矛盾、历史与演变，早已如同化石一般，被封存于 RS-232、ASCII、ANSI X3.64、VT100 系列等早期协议与标准之中，乃至后来的 Unicode 里。 本作品将这些技术作为一面思辨之镜，试图揭示人类对新兴虚拟世界的潜在幻想， 架起一座跨越“恐怖谷”（uncanny valley）的桥梁。

沿袭吉尔伯特·西蒙东（Gilbert Simondon）与许煜（Yuk Hui）的理论脉络，艺术家 /guibog 致力于探索技术个体化（technical individuation）的新形态。他编写的 asciicap.py 脚本试图开启一种途径，令人们得以探索数字客体（digital objects）的世界。 程序、协议、数据库，乃至NPC（非玩家角色），这些是否构成独立的数字个体？ 藉由代码、编码、计算与算法， 这个问题或许在不久的将来就能得到答案——希望那会是在通用人工智能（AGI）全面降临之前。

这件装置的核心是一只名为“Roger-Antonio PRK”的飞猪毛绒玩偶， 它最初是为2025年乌镇戏剧节所构思的。它是本装置的眼睛与大脑， 其内部配备了一架网络摄像头，以及一台运行 asciicap.py 脚本的树莓派（Raspberry Pi）。 当观展者与被转化为 ASCII 码的实时影像进行互动时，这或许会启发他们的思考： 人类思想与由比特（bits）所构成的数字世界之间，究竟存在什么样的异与同？