RESISTING OPTIMISATION
LONDON, 2025 – IN PROGRESS
RESISTING OPTIMISATION is an ongoing experimental collection of digital sculptural sketches about identity under the pressure of algorithmic pressure.
The sketches explore a visual, sculptural, and expanded-architectural language that links the human body with mechanised processes. Through these experiments, the sketches utilise the wit of sculptural artistry to visualise how algorithmic culture, platform capitalism, and self-tracking practices push individuals towards perpetual refinement, visibility, and homogeneity under the guise of becoming optimised. The collection takes an experimental approach to developing a visual language, as prompts for reflection on how individuals might navigate—or even resist—the hegemonic cultures and trends that shape online cultures and environments.
Keywords - Digital Identity, Algorithmic Desire, Platform Capitalism, Speculative Installation, Social Metrics, Networked Subjectivity, Feedback Systems, Identity Capital, Media Aesthetics, Cybernetic Intimacies, Resistance Practices
The sketches explore a visual, sculptural, and expanded-architectural language that links the human body with mechanised processes. Through these experiments, the sketches utilise the wit of sculptural artistry to visualise how algorithmic culture, platform capitalism, and self-tracking practices push individuals towards perpetual refinement, visibility, and homogeneity under the guise of becoming optimised. The collection takes an experimental approach to developing a visual language, as prompts for reflection on how individuals might navigate—or even resist—the hegemonic cultures and trends that shape online cultures and environments.
Keywords - Digital Identity, Algorithmic Desire, Platform Capitalism, Speculative Installation, Social Metrics, Networked Subjectivity, Feedback Systems, Identity Capital, Media Aesthetics, Cybernetic Intimacies, Resistance Practices
IN PROGRESS
Supported by Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths University of London, UK
