⬡ Digital Exhibition ⬡

Ficciones

Jorge Luis Borges' stories, made visible

Every story in Ficciones (1944) is a computational thought-experiment dressed in prose — an infinite library, a garden of forking timelines, a man who remembers every leaf of every tree. Jorge Luis Borges wrote them as a precursor of realismo mágico — the mystical Latin American prose tradition he would help inspire — and decades before computer science had names for the structures hiding inside them. Twelve of those stories, translated into interactive algorithms. Each piece reacts to your cursor, opens at your touch, and answers when you invoke a phrase.