DEEPFAKE is both a video essay and a live installation, two forms that examine the cultural and emotional impact of synthetic media. From AI-powered memorials to non-consensual pornography, the essay looks at what happens when a likeness can be taken and a record rewritten without anyone’s consent. Our bodies are no longer private, they are programmable.
The installation runs real-time deepfake technology in the room, so visitors watch their own faces being replaced and manipulated in front of them. Its goal is to put the audience on edge: once a likeness can be captured this easily, no one in the room knows when theirs might be used to violate their consent.
Produced by Artificial Nouveau Studio
Videography by Flora Reznik
[2025] Showcased at Peckham Digital
Peckham Digital • London, United Kingdom
DEEPFAKE: A Video Essay was showcased at Peckham Digital 2025, a festival celebrating digital art and creative technology in South London.