Shoggoth with a smiley Face
The Shoggoth Meme emerged in December 2022, one month after ChatGPT's launch: a formless monster from H.P. Lovecraft's universe with a smiley face mask placed on it. Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) makes AI systems polite and helpful on the surface, but leaves the alien model underneath unchanged. The mask is friendly – the monster remains.The installation takes this image and expands it: It shows not only the interaction between user and AI – how the system mirrors my face until it deteriorates – but also makes the real, physical costs visible.
The server at the center stands for data centers as infrastructure: water consumption, energy demand, noise and infrasound pollution for residents, overstated promises of jobs. The smiley mask sits here too: AI is sold as a promise of progress, while the actual costs to environment and people remain invisible.
The installation seeks to unmask this invisibility – on both levels simultaneously.
Digital Data Circulation
The installation visualises the flood of digital images that constantly stream through servers in data centres as data. Data centres must not only be well secured,
but also continuously cooled to prevent the chips from overheating.
Cooling accounts for the highest energy consumption
in the entire data centre and is a growing problem.
Bedtime Procrastination
Bedtime Procrastination is an art project that critically examines social media consumption and its influence on everyday behavior. It highlights how quickly online content can become toxic, especially through the repetition of sexist imagery. The performance transforms the act of endless scrolling into a physical experience, encouraging the audience to reflect on their own media habits and the normalization of harmful representations.
Collaboration with Jamie Mulcahy
Insel meiner Angst
Insel meiner Angst is a multimedia spatial installation that explores the experience of fear. Visitors enter the space and encounter an island-like platform at its center, inviting them to pause and reflect. A projection surface presents different stages of fear, translating emotional states into visual form. Elements of dance are integrated into the work, using movement to express vulnerability, tension, and transformation.
Collaboration with Jamie Mulcahy