Girlstack (2023-2025) assembles a novel multimodal theory of inhuman feminine intelligence within planetary computational systems. Variations on the Girlstack have been presented at transmediale, Autotelic Foundation, Aksioma, Creamcake 3HD, London College of Fashion, and elsewhere. Girlstack research and development was supported by the Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures at Die Angewandte. Discourse on Disintegrator𖦤, New Models𖦤. and Tactics&Practice𖦤.

2025 · postscriptum

Girl Intelligence

The Girl is a paradox, at once hypervisible and impossible to define. Despite cultural efforts to erase or redefine her, she persists, mutating through media, politics and technology. She is not just an aesthetic persona, but an active force, capable of absorbing and subverting ideological narratives. Tracing her intertwining with AI, consumerism and gender politics reveals the Girl’s extraordinary abilities to escape control and, in so doing, never truly disappear.

GLOBAL · Aksioma · Metalabel
Lecture version: Girls Never Die⊿
Pop version: Girls — MoMU Antwerp☰

2025 - vienna digital cultures

Sycophancy

Linking the deferential tendencies of large language models (LLMs) to similar dynamics in political and social performance. Framing sweetness and charm as strategic deceptions for agents looking to exploit volatile power dynamics.

Commissioned for the inaugural Vienna Digital Cultures, curated by Nadim Samman and presented by Autotelic Foundation⊿ and Spike Magazine⊿.

LECTURE, 40 MINS

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2024-25 -TRANSMEDIALE

She’s Evil

She’s Evil, Most Definitively Subliminal sees Alex Quicho and Noura Tafeche enter the theatre of psychological operations online – because physical wounds heal – and lay out the girl artillery, from IDF e-girls to DIY subliminals. At this intersection of asymmetrical warfare and individualistic self-development, the battle is fought via seduction, influence, disruption, and confusion.

Commissioned for Transmediale 2024: You’re Doing Amazing Sweetie. Reviewed by Spike Magazine. Performed again for A*LIVE: Radical Cuteness at Museu de l’art Prohibit, Barcelona and Are You A Software Update? at Aksioma, Ljubljana.

Collaborative performance with Noura Tafeche
Two-channel projection with found subliminal audio, 30 mins
Photography by Laura Fiorio for transmediale /
domen pal for aksioma
With thanks to Jade Barget, Nóra Ó Murchú and Kasia Wlaszczyk

2024-25 - VARIOUS

Gore Layer

An assessment of how ultrasmooth mechanics and beautiful fighting girls are already deployed in the theatre of operations, also known as the gore layer — proposing the Final Girl as the investigating consciousness of ultratrauma.

First developed as an essay for Spike☰ and expanded at GIRLRAGE for Tropez and GIRLFRONT⊿ for In Terms of Media…, Weibel Institute. Finalised as Styles of 5G War☰ for Proof of Personhood, Singapore Art Museum.

ESSAY & LECTURE, 30 MINS
’that’s hot’ series visuals by Bassam Al-Sabah
photography by ink agop
with thanks to jade barget, Nóra Ó Murchú
and the weibel institute

2024 - buffer

Aura Points

A suspiciously superficial theory about the rise of ‘aura’ in contemporary girltalk; day-to-day activities of “deliberate self-design”; and the orientation of actually-existing Girl Intelligence towards mystery and sycophantic deception.

First produced as a talk for BUFFER⊿, with a short companion piece for SQD.ZIP☰. Finalised as Sycophancy⊿. Interview on BAG TALK𖦤.

ESSAY & LECTURE WITH FOUND SUBLIMINAL AUDIO, 22 MINS
with thanks to dr. daniel felstead & Patrycja Fixl

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2024 · VARIOUS

Prey Mode

A theoretical model and visual poem that patterns bottom-of-the-food-chain tricks—like total sensing, tactical passivity, and ecstatic surrender—for securing more life. Individual survival may not be the answer. After all, love is vore.

First published on Dazed☰ and expanded at BODYSTACKED⊿ and To New Entities. Interview on Logged On𖦤.

Essay & lecture with found trailcam imagery, 35 mins

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2023 · VARIOUS

Girlstack

The ‘girl’ inhabits no one person, body, or gender. She is a technology of subjectivity composed of symbolic, consumer, and inhuman elements. The ‘girlstack’ models the ultrasmooth, cybergothic, and angelic dimensions of the ‘girl’s natural habitat. She might be our only way out of the platform trap.

First published on Wired☰ and expanded at BODYSTACK⊿ and Creamcake 3HD. Ongoing investigations on Substack.