MILK mY MIND
This project was realized within the VR seminar Into the Dark Forest at ./studio3, Department of Experimental Architecture, University of Innsbruck, and was supervised by Anna Pompermaier and Cenk Güzelis
Research
My VR seminar project investigates the societal hierarchy, techno-feudal power structures are producing. I began with the Tech CEO dinner in the White House State Dining Room, where leading executives publicly pledged allegiance to the Trump administration. This highly symbolic gathering suggested a shift toward an era in which the so-called free market is expected to align more visibly with government political interests, marking a new phase of entanglement between corporate platforms and state power.
The spatial analysis that follows draws on interviews with executives, reporting from news outlets, testimonies from former employees, and data analysis. Together, these sources inform a spatial reading of how technological, political, and economic actors are reorganizing influence, visibility, and control.
THE FAN CLUB
Derived from the spatial analysis, the experience is structured as a sequence of rooms arranged in concentric circles. It begins in the State Dining Room, where the table setting serves as both scene and interface. Symbols embedded on the plates act as navigational cues, guiding visitors from this initial space into subsequent environments. Each room unfolds as a layer of the broader investigation, using spatial transitions and visual motifs to connect the scenes and reveal the relationships between political power, technological platforms, and emerging social structures.
Oligarchs olymp
The corrupting effects of wealth and power have long been recognized. Inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights, this scene depicts how techno-feudal elites and political actors exploit the vulnerabilities of civil society while becoming increasingly detached from the real-world consequences of their actions. Drawing on recent document releases and reporting around the Epstein case, the scene points to the entanglement of corporate and political influence and the ways in which powerful networks often shield one another. Through allegory and spatial imagery, it reflects on how our system of privilege can pervert and erode morality.
SERVING SERVERS
The third scene is depicts the infrastructural heart of cloud capital. in a sea of wires, beeps and constant hurring, our most prized information is stored, categorized and analyzed. We no longer are humans but data sources for corporate incentives.
MILK MY MIND
The last scene depicts our daily virtual cages. Surveillance of the masses has become almost invisible. Instead of human beings surveilling humans, we now face technology that never rests and always attends. Whether we listen to music, go for a run or face time with our loved ones, our behavioural data is collected and fed to algorithms fueling war machines, global inequality and empowering the ruling class.