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bug

2023, media installation

CODE 2023
IMPAKT Center for Media Culture, transmediale Berlin
ISEA 2024 Melbourne, As Above, So Below exhibiton

CONCEPT
Recently, videos of bug fights swarm the internet. Our relationship with other-than-human species is mediated by digital encounters, always one a click a way from insect livestreams. We look at animals via computational interfaces, marginalizing their embodied existence outside the screen. This speculative instrument merges aesthetics of telescopes and camera lenses with microscopes and weapons. Instead of looking up into space, you gaze down into the sewage system. The manhole functions as a portal to an uncanny encounter with a bug’s fictional reality: As you stand face-to-face with the eye’s of this insect, you notice being looked at – by the bug, yourself, and other surveillance systems.

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