Joints of Domination

‘Joints of Domination’ is an interactive installation that examines how body capture technologies operate within the surveillance systems of discount supermarkets. The project examines how value in technocapitalist environments, including visual systems, surveillance, and world-building, is shifting from products on shelves to the joints of the bodies that move among them.
 
Through diagrams, code and video, the installation visualises how surveillance abstracts the body into a digital skeleton: a seven-point map of joints, including the head, shoulders, elbows, and wrists. During the installation, a custom-built interactive network captures the viewer’s joint movements and projects a skeletal map of the body, making the system’s mechanics visible.
 
By exposing how mundane retail spaces are transforming into data extraction sites, ‘Joints of Domination’ questions what new choreographies emerge when bones become currency and the body itself a site of value production.