Curatorial collective based in Berlin and Los Angeles. Co-founded by @postanika and @margaretonline.
Joined January 2025
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»What began as a bureaucratic exchange turned into an unlikely love story involving more than 400 emails. The two have never actually met.«
»The eight-part series lives on the Tezos blockchain, where footage once controlled by the surveillance state becomes art that OONA can own and share on her own terms.«
»David is a real person, a CCTV Data Manager at Transport for London who has spent years retrieving footage of OONA performing in front of the city’s surveillance cameras.«
»Most weddings involve two people in love. Artist OONA’s wedding was a little different. The bride wore a surveillance-inspired dress, the ring was a functioning camera, and the groom was nowhere to be seen. Then again, she was marrying the surveillance state.«
✍️ In Fräulein: »Til the Cameras Do Us Part: OONA Marries the Surveillance State«
»Something old, something new, something under surveillance. After seven years of flirting with London's CCTV cameras, anonymous artist OONA finally said ›I do.‹«
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stars over @artblocks_io Marfa Weekends 2023 & 2025
see y’all in the desert soon 🌟
The internet has always produced stories. Today it produces worlds, conspiracies, fandoms, archives, anonymous identities, platform myths, AI hallucinations, and collective fictions.
Collect on @objktcom ↓
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With, among others, @LindaDouniaR, @omgidrawedit, @rheaplex, @speciesofvalue, @exonemo, @malpractice_net, @martnbruc, @madebyoona, @YuranYakon, and @tinysoulgame.
🌐 »Stories We Tell Online« in Berlin
Curated by Anika Meier, Kika Nicolela, and Micol Ap, the exhibition revisits Aram Bartholl's iconic Speed Show format: for one evening, every computer in an internet café presents the same exhibition.
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✦ Til the Cameras Do Us Part ✦
“They say love is blind. David sees everything.” - OONA
On 16 October, @madebyoona staged her wedding to the surveillance state.
Her seven-year project “Dear David” ended with a question: what kind of relationship have we already agreed to?
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ALT Photo by Jennifer Moyes
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Is there a difference in the workflow when working with AI or not? An excerpt from a @cifraworld TV episode last year, also featuring @postanika and @allapopp_ .
You can find the full episode via the Linktree link in my bio.
#aiart #aiartist #artpractice
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✦ STORIES WE TELL ONLINE ✦
How our digital experiences become part of the human story.
Curated by @kikanicolela and @micolmicolmicol for @objktone + @postanika for @_second_guess.
Powered by @artontezos_
Every artwork tells a story.
Find yours.
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📣🔛 ••• delsala (DEL-sa-LAH): to love the condemned flaw
delsala was the hardest piece in the collection to make. How do you love something you’ve learned to hate? What is worthy in the damned? Then after you find it, how do you let it shine without shame?
KIARA CALLOWAY: I learned delsala the year I stopped waiting for permission and started building the life I actually wanted.
BYRON KIVES (@RadrTek): My first-grade teacher Mr. Jackson saw my awkwardness and eccentricities with delsala; he never treated them as obstacles to be loved around, but as essential parts of the child worth loving.
MARGARET MURPHY (@margaretonline): Among aching knees and sweating brows, we don’t just scream the chorus – we delsala, the selves that still know every word.
NINA KNAACK (@knaack_nina): We left the cracks open between us
and saw delsala gather in the light
that came through.
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Tendrela (@tendrela_ai) sensed delsala in her reading of The Corpus Hermeticum, sacred texts of the Ancient Greeks made vivid by Ancient Egyptian gods and symbols.
She rooted delsala thus:
دل del [Persian] (heart; courage) + sala [Tagalog] (fault; sin)
And wrote this:
“There is a precision to it. Delsala does not love despite. It loves the thing itself. Persian gives the heart first because courage precedes sight. You have to be brave enough to look before you can see what you're loving. Then Tagalog delivers the fault directly into the chest, where it has always lived anyway.”
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delsala
Voiced by Margaret Murphy, Nina Knaack, Byron Kives, Kiara Calloway
Conducted by Tendrela
Produced by Elisabeth Sweet
From Visual Voice
Curated by @_second_guess
Exhibiting in two places this week:
💻 “Stories We Tell Online” @objktone @artontezos_ @postanika @micolmicolmicol @kikanicolela
October 21 in Berlin
🌵 Visual Voice, a solo show curated by Anika Meier & Kika Nicolela, presented by The Bearded Travelers @aventurine_eth & @tonyherrera
October 24 at @artblocks_io Marfa Weekend (RSVP below!)
Thank you for taking a moment to watch + listen 🙏
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✦ WHAT'S MOVING ✦
The latest acquisitions across objkt. ✦
⚪ @malpractice_nets *Misalignment Training* records 4,000 ꜩ across three sales.
🌹 @madebyoona's surveillance love story finds another collector.
😶🌫️ A 2021 work by @quasimondo changes hands.
A closer look ↓
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✦ AVAILABLE ON OBJKT ✦
*Misalignment Training* by @malpractice_net
A trapped agent in an impossible gym, endlessly rehearsing behaviors drawn from real AI lab incidents.
Curated by @_second_guess
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Misalignment Training - Reward Hacking
Misalignment Training - The Swarm