2026PCM(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)
To create the addictive algorithm, the persuasive LLM, or the servile home robot, one first has to transform the confusing flesh of a human being into rich, reliable data. Here’s how: feel the cadence of their every swipe, watch their eyes traverse around each screen, and listen to whatever you can, within legal limits. Metadata is a video sculpture that celebrates the resulting heatmaps, flowcharts, and datasheets that emerge from such fastidious extraction by letting these loose data points take the form they came from—in this case: a bone-naked human figure casually scrolling on their phone, hunched over the loo.
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.
