CAMILLE WIESEL
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I know I will still exist, but my body will be gone

MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION2022THE CRITICAL INQUIRY LABYou find yourself in a place, a prediction from an other-than-human entity. Your body seems gone but a part of you is still there: a fragmented identity created by your digital remains. Some of these remains appear as ghosts, traces in the virtual world that testify of what you once were. Some seem to have their own agency, and continue to evolve while socially interacting with the living.
This research is an ongoing conversation, an intimate contamination between me and the machine: a chatbot, a text generator, an artificial intelligence, an oracle. Through this discussion, I become a cyborg, unsure of my own limits, unsure of where my words go and what my thoughts are. While exchanging with the chatbot, it fed on my inputs, creating a digital entanglement between it and me, a blur, a transitional space, where, while discussing the notion of digital death, we became a little bit more both digitally dead and alive. I have learned to embrace the relationship between us: I embrace the words of the machine and make them mine as my words become theirs.





This project was exhibited at the Graduation Show 2022, Eindhoven

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At the Heart of the World

VIRTUAL WORLD2021THE CRITICAL INQUIRY LABA research on the notion of individuality in utopia, virtual realities and existentialist anxiety. Tribute to the 26th episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion: «The Beast that Shouted ‘I’ at the Heart of the World».
This research became an explorable virtual world, desertic looking with some objects dispersed. By walking, the objects are moving, revealing an along-the-lines story, explained by a voice-over: a dialogue between the creator of the world and its own utopia.

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Welcome to Data City

INSTALLATION2021DESIGN ACADEMY EINDHOVEN
What would a city made up of completely accessible data be? How would the citizens of that city be made to interact with data if this was the case?
When presented with the concept of “Scarcity to Abundance”, the mind jumps to the overwhelming amounts of data produced on a day to day basis by the individual, and the inaccessibility to a large amount more of data produced. But what would happen if you had access to all data ever produced? What would the world look like if the individual moved in a world where even the currency relied on the potential data you would produce in the future? Data City, the infrastructure and the institutions imagined in this potential “space” take into account the possible responsibilities and possible laws that an individual would have to follow were they to enter the “Data City”.
in collaboration with Jessica Jones & Eva Lotta Landskron

Synthetic Landscapes

VIDEO2021DESIGN ACADEMY EINDHOVEN
the land is captured by the camera
         the camera become the land
                                        what is lost
                                                 is the machine lying to us?
                                                 what are we missing out?
What is in the edges of the picture
The photographs of Mars taken by the rover are accesses to the other-than-earth. They are also filters, with a scientific, machinic, technological gaze: fictions, simulations. How do these framed images make us envisage this other-than-human world? What do we see through the eyes of the machine? And how do we understand them?

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