Flat Tiger, Paper Node, Dead Hand, and Tightened Knot

2021
Four-channel sound system, tin, lead, steel cable, tears of T-1000, aluminum, copper, steel wire, plastic, rubber, cellophane, nylon, bone, plants, cotton, engraving, laser pointer
Commissioned by Garage MCA

Peaceful protesters are being hunted by the authorities after the fact with the help of artificial intelligence. The technology is haunted by the ghosts of autonomous weaponry, and shadows of the ones who operate it. The media becomes a weapon, inflicting the new type of wounds on ones who witness the hybrid war unfolding in the digital realm. It becomes apparent how these new wounds, described by Catherine Malabou, are now used by the informational autocracies, as the means of political repressions. 

This is the study of such injuries, modeling a situation in which a conflict is controlled by artificial intelligence, an autonomous system that runs out of control. The story of this accident is presented as a poetic polylogue of participants and witnesses.