you were never meant to beat what was built to win
I<3luser

Several hacked advertisment LED panels are displaying highly ambiguous gossip about pre-defined absurdities embedded in the default logics of technological systems. The work asks how we can reclaim agency without competing on machines terms-the calculated tragedy of a loser-we already agreed on. In drawing on the (l)users condition, their incompetence aka their ability to recognise a multitude of (mis)readings, the text reclaims tech-vernacular and extends their meaning-axis. What the system cannot decipher, the (l)user can weaponise: refusing to resolve in a single legible meaning, the text turns into reflexive parody, inciting the system to trap itself in an eternal loop of self-questioning while we laugh about defaults, tight-lipped, refusing to reveal the punchlines.
Master Graduation project at Sandberg Instituut, presented at Best Day of My Life, 2026, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam.
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The Algorithmic Altar
at the Gerrit Rietveld Pavilion, Amsterdam

03.12. - 05.12.2025 - - a three evening event at the Pavilion of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, co-curated and organised together with Adele Stroh and kindly supported by Publics & Projects Rietveld. Through an opening lecture, a workshop and sound perdormances, we explored technology as a continuation of our oldest magic: transforming desire into form. With contributions from Hanneke Klaver, Milan Gress, Julia Kerres, servicekit, XONYA, krai and emeel
     live streamed on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/the_algorithmic_altar)

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... dancing in between shiny gloom and glossy doom ...
choreographed by machines

Rotating screens on motorized rotisserie skewers. Since computerised logic rejects the licentious concept of ambiguity, their representational version of reality pathologically manifests an inability to deal with an ever-pending unresolvedness-the messy dilemma whether the chicken or the egg came first. You can touch it without getting your hands dirty.
Bachelor Graduation project at Hochschule Mainz, presented at BAMA, 2024, LUX Pavilion Mainz.
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Kosovo Pavilion
19th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia

visual translation of the conceptual identity in custom typeface, social media, pamphlet and wall text, together with Nana Esi and Sophie Keij (Atelier Brenda).

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CON10UR
Biennale of Moving Images, 2023

Translation of the visual identity on posters and booklet, together with Nana Esi and Sophie Keij (Atelier Brenda)

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A Glittering Ruin Sucked Upwards

Editorial design for the HISK Laureates 2023 graduation publication, together with Nana Esi and Sophie Keij (Atelier Brenda)

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from... time... to... time...
exhibition at beursschouwburg Brussels, Belgium, 2023

visual assets for visual identity, together with Nana Esi and Sophie Keij (Atelier Brenda)

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summer sneeze
Design Department Graduation exhibition, Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam, 2025

visual identity together with Adele Stroh and Sadie van Breemen

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let them do their thing

This experimental setup confronts artificial intelligence face to face with itself, by setting the system to exist in a semi-closed environment, receiving information and sending feedback to create a self-regulated feedback loop over a conversation about AI-generated images. It seems like artificial intelligence is capable of interpreting, imagining, and communicating. Referring to Friedrich Kittler‘s idea that "[...] computers want to communicate with computers. [...] Because the network is there for computers to be connected to computers, to which keyboards and users can also be connected, but don‘t have to be,"1, in this setup the viewer becomes an involuntary disruptor of the interaction between the two computers. The audience is able to influence the exchange through their presence by stepping in front of a monitor or sneaking into the live feed of the dialog provided on a website accessible via a smartphone. The experiment took place over two days at Werkschau 2023, Mainz. (See transcript here)
/Collaboration with Julia Kerres
1 TV Doku Spiegel Unberechenbarkeit 2/3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO8W9ks71wc), uploaded on 26.04.2011 on YouTube

(process: computer1 takes a photo of computer2; computer1 interprets the captured photo using a image-to-text AI model and uses this description to generate an image with a text-to-image AI model and display it on its screen; computer1 sends a message to computer2 via a WebSocket protocol to instruct computer2 to perform the same steps)

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flat-is-dead
Bodies do not have just one shape and are not geometric at all!

The transition from the analog world to the digital world is rectangular! Why is the web reduced to a rigid two-dimensional body? Compared to Tupperware, web content is dependent on external shapes, with Tupperware being more advanced in its development due to its adaptability to content (e.g. fruit containers). Flat is dead is a critical approach to window-influenced web content in comparison to the variety of shapes of food storage containers. Visualized through an interactive web performance where length and width of web pages are the triggering parameters for users to interact with.      visit here

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virtual viscosity

motion tracking, screen behind mirror glassDigital space is a viscous mass in which our bodies are trapped! We are not free in a world we imagine to be a boundless space with infinite possibilities of movement. The digital surface as a mirror forces us to simultaneously rethink and evaluate our movements (online meetings) or to execute them according to preliminary considerations (vlogs on YouTube). The digital space is a stage, movements become choreography.

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un heimelig

projectors on moving platforms. Understanding the relationship between space and security requires an awareness of spatial boundaries and our position within them. Our aim is to challenge the perceived sense of security within a space by presenting a room from different moving perspectives and through multiple recordings. This approach explores how spaces can become unfamiliar and how the perception of physical boundaries can shift or dissolve.
Shown in the group exhibition Licht Raum Kunst, Lulu Galerie Mainz, November 2022
/Collaboration with Stella Bechtel and Judith Berger

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local.recreation-area
The digital space has to be rebuilt with love by default!

Technology has shaped the house we are forced to live in today and its design is influencing us! 1 The digital space is built far too strongly on the capitalist idea. It is not tailored to our needs and that includes having a place for self-care. Using the existing energies of technological environments (hallucinating screen flicker; warmth of an overheated processor; tactile experiences of fingerprints and dirt on a screen; screen brightness level), local.recreation-area provides a space to rest and reset. Inspired by the physical manifestations of digital images by Rafael Rozendaal and the artwork "Spiral Induction" by Tauba Auerbach.visit here
1 cf. Ursula Franklin (1992): Anansi Press, Concord/Ontario

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programming Body
A radical anthropocentrism as prophylactic speculation

"I do not believe what modern philosophy says about mankind, that we are beings similar to a kind of Pac-Man, eating up the universe. I think we are ultra-sensitive chameleons which can take on the colour of other things."1 Wouldn't it be more efficient to change ourselves to be independent of the environment? Thinking about evolution, why can't we decide what color we're going to adopt? Why don't we program the future by anticipatory adaptation of our human bodies to the unstoppable future changes in our environment? Why don't we get ahead of evolution? read here
1 Timothy Morton (2019): Nature is a racist concept, domus, https://www.domusweb.it/en/design/2019/03/02/nature-is-a-racist-concept.html, 26.03.2022

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advice-to-inbox
Everyone needs an advice sometimes!

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web-hacking.studio

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gda hallway
wallpapered on Open Day, ArtEZ Arnhem (NL) 2022

/Collaboration with Julia Kerres

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