artificiality

Digital memory prompts, in their artificiality and unpredictability, might interfere with forgetting.

“We talked about possibly doing a surreal yellow, almost postapocalyptic look, but it just had this artificiality that we didn’t like, so we leaned into real photography as a starting point.”

I was so flummoxed by the artificiality of the noises entering my ears that I couldn’t concentrate on what I was saying, let alone what my students were asking.

The artificiality of the protagonist’s interactions made me wonder if the whole play might be an AI dream.

On the screen you get melodrama, it’s artificiality made obvious.