ABOUT
Ornella Fieres’s work explores the hidden aspects of digital technologies and examines what happens when data is transformed within machines that seem obscure, or even autonomous to us. For this investigation she works with private photographs and documentary film material from the turn of the 20th century - a time that was coined by a fascination of occultism in combination with technology - and processes the found footage with seemingly alchemistic methods. She builds photographic apparatuses, manipulates algorithms, experiments with artificial intelligence or tweaks software to create moments that carry lingering traces of past instants and might be foreshadowing events in the future.