R04 · FIELD ROUTE

Systems that misbehave

A system becomes legible when it stops behaving. This route follows machines, metrics and interfaces at the point where control starts producing distortion.

  1. commercial Article

    Permission design

    As data becomes more portable and more interfaces are mediated by platforms or agents, brand moves into micro-interactions people can refuse, revise, or revoke. A buyer does not always meet...

    Open work
  2. commercial Article

    The dashboard defence

    In B2B, the dashboard often arrives after the decision and is treated as if it came first. A lot of B2B marketing decisions are made before the monthly pack is finished - sometimes before...

    Open work
  3. commercial Article

    The lever era hangover

    Digital used to feel like a lever you could pull for quick growth. Now reach is more expensive, measurement is less reliable, and advantage comes from making each encounter easier to...

    Open work
  4. creative Sonic Artwork

    Fight against automation

    A live Pure Data performance where randomised machine-learning processes govern the work's small and large structures, leaving the performer inside a system that keeps distorting its own...

    Open work
  5. creative Sonic Artwork

    Failed musical instruments

    Sculptural instruments made from e-waste sit in silence while a sound installation plays back sounds from their making. Installation | 2021 | Duration: variable A sound installation built...

    Open work
  6. creative Sonic Artwork

    One fast move or I'm gone

    A stereo composition structured more like cinema than music - jump cuts, broken scenes, interrupted rhythms. Based on Jack Kerouac's Big Sur, this electroacoustic work uses minimal...

    Open work