This work is a multi-medium installation that investigates how algorithms, as media, shape and return individual subjectivity through the material forms of print and installation. This project starts with a slight discomfort about how algorithmic judgements seem to infiltrate our daily life. More and more decisions about who we are, what we see, and how we inhabit the world are made elsewhere, by systems we rarely make eye contact with.

Rather than seeing algorithms as neutral or merely instrumental tools, the project considers them as media that actively shape how people understand themselves. It questions how people’s personal practices, bodies, and environments are transformed into data, and how these readings return to us as explanations of who we are. The installation is not meant to stand for algorithms, but to respond to the moment when algorithmic judgement starts to feel too seamlessly woven into one’s sense of self.

By capturing the moment of return, when computation becomes self-description, the installation invites viewers to recognise how frequently algorithmic interpretations are taken as truths about themselves. In doing so, the work asks what it means to live in a condition where the self is no longer formed exclusively from within, but is constantly modified and validated by external structures that are rarely seen.