Personhood: Iteration 4: A new iteration of the projection-mapped interactive installation exploring the boundaries of presence and identity.
2025PCM(2025)
Personhood(2024)
EMERGE:NCY(2023)
User(2026)
Metadata(2026)
Box Body(2023)
Metadata(2026)
Single-channel digital video projection (color, silent) and hanging linen curtain
110 x 80 cm (43.3 x 31.5 in.) [Projection scale]
00 min. 09 sec. loop
2026 / Helix Art Space (Stockholm)
Metadata is a radical portrait of the contemporary individual: surveilled, anonymized, dehumanized, and subsumed into naked clouds of datapoints. By implying much about the quantified person while saying nothing of the unique individual, the work embodies three layers of psychopolitical exploitation: the intimate surveillance of the self, the reduction of that self into data, and the commodification of this data for the consolidation of power.
Modern human nature
Production began with the acquisition of a medical-grade anatomical 3D model of a human body, which was virtually dissected to reveal only bones and nerves to evoke the datafication of a person normally achieved through CT scans and MRIs. These remains were then posed in a crouch with looped phone-scrolling animation. A point cloud was propagated over the resulting mesh, animated to flash in time with each thumb-scroll to mirror the chemical messengers that digital systems manipulate.
The work is projected onto a translucent and loosely-draped curtain to give physical volume and presence to the skeletal form, and also further placing it within a domestic sphere.
