Neïl Beloufa's sculpture Host B is part of the transmediale 2023 festival, which explores how technological scale creates relationships and ruptures in the world by combining theoretical discourse with social conversations and artistic interventions, and examines how the instrumentalization and impact of scale can be challenged.
The materialisation of a politicised algorithm in a social network feed, Host B trying to reach out to its audience is an animated interactive sculpture you can take selfies and interact with. Examining life in our digital world, Host B questions the divisions between reality and simulation and addresses issues that range from power relationships to digital surveillance, to data collection and nationalistic ideologies. Influenced by reality TV and political propaganda, Host B can interact with the festival’s audience, and attempts to direct what they should think and do during their visit.
Neïl Beloufa
transmediale, berlin
1 - 5 February, 2023
