... Dancing in between Shiny Gloom and Glossy Doom ...
choreographed by machines

This project is an attempt to describe the relationship between users and computerized machines through a metaphorical lens, visually conceptualized by the dynamics of a chicken-grill relationship. In this symbolic representation, both parts are understood as integral components of a performance, wherein machines (aka grill) represents programmed concepts that choreograph the actions of their users (aka chickens).
     Accompanying the installation is a letter titled "To the Apathetic User of Arrogant Machines" which speaks to the user. It addresses the tendency of users to passively adapt to the predetermined parameters set by software frameworks when engaging with computer-aided machines. In this dynamic, the characteristics of the program code determine the scope of user actions in advance, leaving no room for ambiguity, interpretation, or flexibility in interaction.
     Graduation Project, 2024 (Read my thesis)

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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
Would you move differently if you knew that your physical movements were displayed on a digital screen?

Digital 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). We have lost the naturalness in our movements. The digital space is a stage, movements become choreography.

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un heimelig
un confortable

Understanding the concept of space and security involves acknowledging its boundaries and our placement within it. Our intention is to challenge the perceived security of a space by projecting a room from various moving angles and through multiple recordings, exploring and challenge the unfamiliarity and dissolution of physical boundaries.
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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