Deep 404: La preconcepción de un falso documental sobre el futuro que siempre fue

Abstract

Deep 404 is a dystopian mockumentary that imagines a future Bogotá controlled by a self-learning algorithm that runs the mass media. The project grows out of the question of how the relationship between dystopia and artificial intelligence is expressed through the subversion of the factual, using the documentary form to question truth, surveillance, and technological control. Building on Sergio Aguilar Alcalá's concept of the mockumentary, and on the ideas of dystopia and fiction developed in the theoretical framework, the literary script, technical script, storyboard, and teaser were built following the audiovisual biographical method as a research approach. The teaser was screened at the media festival of Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas and was expanded with a website, two interactive programs, and a Reddit community, extending the script's algorithmic surveillance logic onto the viewer's own device. In the end, Deep 404 is a reflection on how far technology can go in building — or deforming — our idea of what is true.