Strange Days (2018)

Video Art Installation & Archival Prints | 2018–2022
Custom C++ software

“The body becomes code, the interface, the node. It breathes, transmits, transforms.”

Strange Days is a video and sound installation that explores the evolving relationship between the human body and machine in the post-digital age. At its core, the work asks: what does it mean to be human in an era when bodies are interfaces, identities are fluid, and code is alive?
In this piece, a breathing dancer body becomes the site of projection for custom generative code - an algorithm written in C++ that produces architectural linear patterns in real time. The body and the machine merge into one network: a portal that receives and transmits, connects and disconnects, moves across the bitsphere in an endless system of circulation.

Referencing both the vulnerability and power of the human-machine interface, Strange Days visualizes the “terminal-body” ; a hybrid form that’s neither trapped in the grid nor entirely free from it. Instead, it exists in an encrypted state, attempting to reclaim privacy in a world where exposure is constant.
The installation is accompanied by an ambient soundscape by Dror Rada, composed of recordings of internal body organs using binaural microphones and stethoscope. The resulting sonic rhythm: breath and heartbeat- synchronizes with the visual code, evoking a meditative coherence between organic and digital life.