Undercurrents – Distributed environmental OS where infrastructure, poetry, and computation converge
Located inside the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, Undercurrents creates a seemingly endless "switchboard" of connections where participant voices are transformed into pulses of light that travel along branching paths.
Helical Echo – A modular, evolving object
The Helical Echo is a sculptural totem created for CultHoldings. Like the abstracted DNA forms it displays, the sculpture itself is designed to evolve, to be upgraded and reshaped.
StarScript – Collective wonder encoded, processed, and projected
StarScript is an interactive astronomy-inspired installation that inverts the observational logic of radio telescopes — turning the act of image reconstruction into a live, collective, and tactile experience.
Analytic Scape – World as classified and quantified by AI
Analytic Scape is a series of scape videos reconstructed through the eye of AI. After capturing various urban and natural scenes, the footage was analyzed using twenty distinct computer vision algorithms.
Constant Points of Data – Indistinct voices over PA
This project is an investigation into novel applications of turntablism for audiovisual composition and performance, focusing on elastic tempo manipulation.
Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices
Two artistic field studies provide the starting point for a dialogical reflection on the entanglement of diverse temporalities in body-related, datafied, and experiential practices.
BUSY – Seeing the city all at once, its intricate systems layered and interwoven
BUSY explores the overwhelming, layered systems of urban life through generative algorithms, procedural and hand-drawn elements, created autonomously, with digital and physical outputs.
In Place – Re-inscribing markers of memory
In Place is an illustrative visual mapping of headstones found in London parks, seeking to acknowledge their continued presence and re-inscribe them into the contemporary urban landscape.
Trail Sync – Decentralized alpine data sharing for hikers
Trail Sync is a participatory system for alpine routes, rooted in the mountain values of collective responsibility and solidarity, that reinforces existing signage infrastructure without increasing technological dependency.
Not A Number – The liminal state of an urban icon
NaN is a moving image project that explores the afterlife functionality of the iconic red phone booths in London.
Improvisational Machines: Live Coding Industrial Robots
Organised and led by Madeline Gannon, Improvisational Machines is a workshop that brings live coding, dynamic interfaces, and flexible workflows into industrial robotics.
Seesaw Economy Manifesto – A mechanism of worth, care, and emotional resonance
Seesaw Economy Manifesto is a relational installation that reimagines value exchange through embodied interaction, ambiguity, and co-created meaning. Departing from the metaphor of economic balance as a static scale—neutral, rigid, and abstract—th...
CWXT – Color Weather Translator
CWXT is a ambient interface that translates live weather data into color, offering a sensory alternative to traditional forecasting data. It operates using the OpenWeatherMap API, fetching live weather data for a user-defined location.
Predictive Capital – Roads to terminal alienation, soil to server farm, reason to vibe
So-called ‘AI’ —more accurately: Predictive Capital— is the latest instrument in Capital’s apparatus of alienation. It steals our work, simulates our labour, reanimates our expression, autocompletes our thought, then pronounces us dead.
Enshittification – Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.
Models of Crisis – Embodiments of a mental struggle
Models of Crisis is series of three generative kinetic objects-poems that externalize and embody the thoughts and feelings of the artist undergoing an existential crisis.
The Red Line – Threshold of tolerance/action
The Red Line is a physical device that examines how we adapt to escalating crises, revealing our tendency to shift the threshold of what we consider acceptable over time. It is inspired by the concept of a "red line" — a figurative boundary that, ...
Strategies for an Auction – The invisible agents of ad networks
Created by Timm Albers, Strategies for an Auction is a composition and sound installation consisting of six sound objects featuring speakers, displays and microcontrollers. The installation attempts to reenact a real time bidding system normally f...
Electric Atmospheres – Ethereal architecture of urban datascapes
In collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre and Altair Engineering, Richard Vijgen simulates the behaviour of the electromagnetic cloud from a single cell-phone in different urban environments and visualize how the electromagnetic wa...
(un)real data ☁️ – (🧊)real effects
(un)real data ☁️ – (🧊)real effects explores the inherent ambiguity of data as an opportunity to not only describe the world but strategically intervene in it.
Ombres Blanches – EMFs landscape
"How to give materiality to our wireless networks data in the public space?" –– Ombres Blanches embodies in real time the interactions with the surrounding networks, in a climatic phenomenon.
G80 – (un)Equitable variables
G80 is an interactive installation which proposes a contemporary interpretation of Buckminster Fuller's "World Game". Visitors interact with a matrix of sliders, each corresponding to a variable of one of 80 human conditions selected by the artist...
Hyperthread: The intertwined histories of the Microchip and the Jacquard loom
Hyperthread explores the aesthetics of parametric chip design through the lens of the Jacquard Loom. It is based on public domain microchips and emulators that perform different functions such as a cryptographic key generator, a general purpose CP...
FlowStates – Real-Time Data Painting
"FlowStates" is a permanent data painting installation situated in the entrance hall of the ifo Institute, the prestigious Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich. The artwork is driven by algorithms that convert data s...
The Conspiracy Capitaliser – AI, Social Media, and Profit in the Age of Misinformation
The Conspiracy Capitaliser is a research project by Robert Collins to investigate and understand the intersection between AI, social media and profit. Comprised of a device, as a non-human participant, it allows the user to explore a wide spectrum...