At the center of the installation is a conversation pit constructed in the gallery, allowing you to physically enter the work. Video projections, created using bespoke software, extend the room with predictive zooms and pans through artificial latent space. The work moves through bodies and places, navigating the relentless extraction of thought and resources, the replacement of cognition with corporate agents.

Daniel Shanken is an artist whose practice centers on the interplay between technology and cognition, exploring its ongoing effects on the environment, consciousness, and culture through installations, video, sculpture, sound, and media. He has exhibited at the ICA London, Art Basel Hong Kong, Whitechapel Gallery, CCA Glasgow, Nottingham Contemporary, CFCCA Manchester, V Art Center Shanghai, and Kiasma Helsinki. He holds an MFA from Goldsmiths University (2012) and completed an art practice PhD at Kingston University, which culminated in a solo show at Stanley Picker Gallery in London. 2023. 

Daniel Shanken is an UmArts WASP-HS Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Art and Architecture at the UmArts Research Centre, Umeå University, Sweden. Production of The Pits was kindly supported by UmArts and Umeå University,
Sweden.

https://www.dshanken.com/