RESISTING OPTIMISATION
DIGITAL SCULPTURES IN PROGRESS
LONDON, 2025
LONDON, 2025
RESISTING OPTIMISATION is a collection of sculptural sketches about identity under the pressure of digital systems. It maps how algorithmic desire, platform capitalism and self-tracking culture push individuals toward constant improvement and visibility.
The work traces tactics of refusal, slowness and misalignment and explores how a body, an image or a data profile might become friction instead of flow. As a speculative design experiment, the artefacts explore what forms of agency can exist within systems built to rank, sort, and optimise us.
Keywords - Digital Identity, Algorithmic Desire, Platform Capitalism, Speculative Installation, Social Metrics, Networked Subjectivity, Feedback Systems, Identity Capital, Media Aesthetics, Cybernetic Intimacies, Resistance Practices
The work traces tactics of refusal, slowness and misalignment and explores how a body, an image or a data profile might become friction instead of flow. As a speculative design experiment, the artefacts explore what forms of agency can exist within systems built to rank, sort, and optimise us.
Keywords - Digital Identity, Algorithmic Desire, Platform Capitalism, Speculative Installation, Social Metrics, Networked Subjectivity, Feedback Systems, Identity Capital, Media Aesthetics, Cybernetic Intimacies, Resistance Practices
RESISTING OPTIMISATION
IN PROGRESS
Creative Direction & Concept, Adam Peacock
Supported by Goldsmiths University of London UK