Recommended for You

Recommended for You features a cardboard kiosk, akin to an ATM or biometric palm scanner, stationed just outside the main space. Visitors are continuously prompted with questions such as “What was the last thing you purchased?,” “What is your zip code?,” “How old are you?,” mirroring the types of information routinely collected through digital platforms. The responses, or data, are then projected onto the floor inside the main installation space, transforming otherwise intangible inputs into a physical surface.

Within this room, fifty cardboard CCTV cameras fabricated by hand, all sourced from Amazon delivery boxes, are arranged in a grid on the wall. Each camera is positioned to face the stream of projected data on the floor, creating an environment in which acts of surveillance are both omnipresent and materially grounded. The work physically embeds the infrastructure of consumer surveillance into the space itself, collapsing the distance between platform, product, and participant.

Through this installation, I aim to visualize the otherwise invisible processes of data collection while questioning the significance of information: Does the value of personal data change when one becomes aware of how it is collected, circulated, and used? By externalizing this process, the work forces participants to confront their own role within these systems, shedding light on the often overlooked relationship between participation and surveillance.*