Canary in the Coal Mine
Denisa Pubalova (CZ), Léna Defay (FR), Lina Mittendorff (DE)
A game of absurd sensing infrastructures that explores the forced convergence of technological sensing and more-than-human sensory capacities. We invite you to make sense of the world, raise your awareness on techno-ecological entanglements, and reclaim sensible agency in an overstimulated world.
Players respond to absurd prompts by creating speculative sensing infrastructures that converge more-than-human sensory capacities with real-world sensors. Presented as an interactive board game, it explores how perception becomes outsourced, overloaded and exploited in times of panic. Part of CODE (code.impakt.nl), it invites reclaiming sensible and digital agency. What happens when species like pigeons, slugs, or humans are utilised as sensors in service of an unknown algorithm?