I’m releasing a new series on objkt: Collective Binary Loops – 28th april 2026 1800CET

👉 https://objkt.com/collections/exhibitions/projects/collective-binary-loops-31562577/exhibition

The starting point is simple:

A collective of fingers is constantly steering and navigating the world — across billions of devices, in real time. What we usually think of as interaction is actually continuous input. Tap by tap, swipe by swipe, we don’t just move through digital space — we actively shape it.

This is where the work begins.

In Collective Binary Loops, this distributed, mostly invisible system becomes visible. The pieces are built as structured visual systems. Each work is split along a central axis:

  • On one side: machine logic — grids, signals, repetition, order
  • On the other: symbolic material — organic shapes, fragments, cultural references

The composition is symmetrical, but not static. The tension between these two layers is intentional and stays unresolved.

At the center sits the hand.

It doesn’t belong to either side. It connects them. The fingers act as an interface between structured systems and open meaning. They move across boundaries and activate relationships between elements that would otherwise stay separate.

That’s how we experience digital systems today:
not as fixed environments, but as spaces we constantly navigate and reshape through input.

This becomes visible in the symbols used in the works. Bitcoin and the dove of peace appear in the same visual field. At first, they seem incompatible — finance vs. idealism. But both are based on similar ideas: autonomy, freedom, self-determination.

The work doesn’t try to resolve that contradiction. It operates inside it.

There is also a direct link to my earlier work. More than 25 years ago, I built large digital collages from thousands of images found online, assembled manually in Photoshop. The process has changed, but the principle hasn’t.

Today, the work is defined through code.
The hand is still there — typing, structuring, defining rules — but the image is generated.

Collective Binary Loops is about that shift:

from composing images
to building systems that produce them.

This release is part of a collaboration with The Second-Guess (Anika Meier & Margaret Murphy), whose curatorial work focuses on digital art, AI, and networked culture — a context that directly aligns with this series.