Katrin Korfmann – Ghost in the Machine (2025)
Two freerunners move through the city, their bodies distorted, doubled, trapped in a glitch. Movements blur, faces vanish, and the world disintegrates. Ghost in the Machine reveals how technology not only captures but also distorts reality.
An algorithm tries to order time but creates chaos: fragments shift, moments warp. The negative colouring deepens the sense of alienation – light becomes shadow, contours fade. There is no decisive moment, only an image in which time can no longer hold itself.
Korfmann reflects on the impact of technology on our perception of space and time. The city is reimagined, disorganised, and thrown off balance. What does it mean to experience public space as fluid and layered? How do algorithms shape our understanding of ‘reality’?
In this work, the disruption itself provides the answer: what happens when the "machine" fails? Embracing failure, seeing the glitch as potential, becomes the key to critiquing normative systems.