Bankleers installation “Echo sagt Bodensatz” (which I had the pleasuree to make sound and music for) is shown at Ars Electronica 2026 in Linz.
The built environment is a reference to the memory of a city. It is intended to convey an orderly, idealized narrative, a certain image of society. Beneath it, in the semi-darkness of the built environment, where orderly narratives dissolve and repressed collective structures of meaning continue to exist, the world is still full of violence. Fragments of our collective memory are twisted, turned and reinterpreted until anti-democratic and misanthropic narratives take hold. Conspiracy theories, resentment and fear gain power through algorithmic ghosts that occupy the public discursive space—connected instantly, globally and endlessly. The architects of these systems—the silicon prophets of disruption, accelerationists who have baptized themselves in the language of progress and engagement, optimized for clicks, likes, shares and time—have found that hatred scales beautifully. A world inhabited by shameless people, demagogues and Nazis. But we are coming!
Underpass Ars Electronica Center / Rudolfstraße 9th – 13th of September 2026