b. 2000
Multi-media artist based in Berlin.
In my interdisciplinary practice, I examine forms of violence embedded in digital technologies and contemporary culture—such as surveillance, data extraction, and algorithmic control. As emerging technologies reshape social and political relations, they promise improved living conditions while simultaneously producing new mechanisms of exclusion and harm. My work challenges the assumption that such forms of violence are inevitable or necessary drivers of progress.
Combining academic research, interviews, and on-site investigation, I work across media including 3D rendering and printing, AI-generated imagery, photography, video, and internet-sourced material. Through these approaches, I trace how technological systems materialie, operate, and inscribe themselves into everyday life.
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Education
Master Design and Computation,
University of Arts Berlin and Technical University Berlin, DE (2024 - )
Bachelor Photography,
Royal Academy of Art The Hague, NL (2020 - 2024)
ExhibitionsCables of Resistance, FMP1, Berlin, DE, 2026
Festival Zéro1 - Campus Exhibition, La Rochelle, FR, 2026
Pre, Present And Post Photographic Images - Satellit Galerie - Hochschule Bielefeld, DE, 2025
Making Waves - Gallery ACE, Amsterdam during Adnight Amsterdam, NL, 2024
Best of Graduates 2024 - Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL, 2024
ScreeningsPublic Shorts Film Festival, Berlin, DE, 2026
Seek/Find Film Festival, Berlin, DE, 2025
PublicationsForum in Camera Austria International Issue #173|2026
Sicherheit neu denken
Sicherheit neu denken explores the rise of predictive policing systems, examining the reasoning behind their design and adoption. The work references HessenData, a controversial data analysis tool used by the Hessian police, as an example of these emerging technologies.
It points out the risks in these technologies—including new kinds of errors and misuse arising from increased automation in data analysis. It also questions how the rational goal of ensuring safety can spiral into complicated and not-transparent practices. The video critically examines the language and aesthetics of big data policing technologies, including how their creators draw inspiration from fantasy, science fiction, and pop culture to name and describe their tools. It reflects on the fraught relationship between society and technology through a mythological imagining of a near-future.Video work, 12’34
Direction, Concept, editing, Creative Direction, Renderings and exhibition-design: Ben Christ
Direction, Concept, Video-Footage, Renderings, Storytelling and exhibition-design: Maria Kaminska
Concept, Creative Direction, Sound and Graphics: Fernanda Braun Santos
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