Network Study I, VII, VIII

NETWORK STUDY I, Ⅶ & Ⅷ is an audiovisual installation exploring network forces and infrastructure across financial, religious and governmental buildings. NETWORK STUDY I focuses on the London Internet Exchange, where network operators in the UK meet to exchange traffic, and on Canary Wharf, a global financial and trading hub conveniently located nearby. NETWORK STUDY Ⅶ focuses on the Department of Telecommunication of the Vatican City, which houses Radio Vaticana, the Vatican's official broadcasting service since 1931. NETWORK STUDY Ⅷ focuses on the US Embassy in Rome, where leaked NSA documents show the presence of concealed equipment on the rooftop used to surveill the communications of the nearby Italian parliament. Each study is produced using network activity collected from each location using custom built software, and later translated into sound, text and images. The videos were incldued in the 2017 album Selected Network Studies released by the Italian label NUKFM.

2018 (group show): Situation #111
FOTOMUSEUM, winterthur
2017 (release): SELECTED NETWORK STUDIES
NUKFM
AV experiments with wireless network infrastructure, limited edition SD card

NETWORK STUDY I, Ⅶ & Ⅷ is an audiovisual installation exploring network forces and infrastructure across financial, religious and governmental buildings. NETWORK STUDY I focuses on the London Internet Exchange, where network operators in the UK meet to exchange traffic, and on Canary Wharf, a global financial and trading hub conveniently located nearby. NETWORK STUDY Ⅶ focuses on the Department of Telecommunication of the Vatican City, which houses Radio Vaticana, the Vatican's official broadcasting service since 1931. NETWORK STUDY Ⅷ focuses on the US Embassy in Rome, where leaked NSA documents show the presence of concealed equipment on the rooftop used to surveill the communications of the nearby Italian parliament. Each study is produced using network activity collected from each location using custom built software, and later translated into sound, text and images. The videos were incldued in the 2017 album Selected Network Studies released by the Italian label NUKFM.

London−based artist duo dmstfctn explores complex systems through installation, performance, video games, and film. Through the lenses of fiction, simulation and experience, their immersive work invites audiences into the 'demystification' of systems by replicating and exploring them together, and into their 'remystification' by building new narratives and worlds atop them.

next (group show): edinburgh art festival
edinburgh
..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................; Bits & Bots
CENTRO DE HISTORIAS, zaragoza
.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Showing The Models (2025), improvisational theatre by Large Language Models
(release): Future Art Ecosystems 5
SERPENTINE, london
.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Contribution to Serpentine's annual briefing on art and advanced technologies
2025 (group show): Rhizome World
WSA, new york city; OS2.4
SINGAPORE ART MUSEUM, singapore; ELAP 2025
NUNNERY GALLERY, london
(solo show): The Models
TECNOPOLO, bologna
(panel): AI, Creativity and Ethics
V&A, london; New Metabolism
GLUON, brussels
(news): What happens when AI lies?
DOMUS
Interview on The Models (2025), improv theatre by Large Language Models; dmstfctn & Lawrence Lek
Digital Deal podcast; dmstfctn ^× Lawrence Lek
DIGITAL DEAL PODCAST
dmstfctn & Lawrence Lek talk about improvisation, roleplaying and mistakes in AI
2024 (live): Futur.Shock
FOLD, london; Waluigi's Purgatory
SERPENTINE^×HQI, london; ROMA EUROPA FESTIVAL
MATTATOIO, rome; ROBOT FESTIVAL
SAN BARBAZIANO, bologna; CRYPTIDS with Günseli Yalcinkaya
SONAR+D, barcelona; GOD MODE (ep. 1)
SYSTEM, shanghai; INDEX Biennial
GNRATION, braga; Waluigi's Purgatory
MEET, milan; SMART LIFE FESTIVAL
TEATRO S. CARLO, modena; GOD MODE (ep. 1)
MUDAERUK, seoul
(group show): Waluigi's Purgatory
ARE YOU FOR REAL
Showing excerpts from Waluigi's Purgatory (2024) with contextual notes; Decentralized Futures
ETOPIA, zaragoza; Decentralized Futures
KOELHUIS, eindhoven; SOLO AI AWARD
GOLDSMITHS, london
(screening): NOINDEX: is nothing forever?
ICA, london
(news): what happens when an AI cheats?
DAZED
dmstfctn speak to Günseli Yalcinkaya about Waluigi's Purgatory (2024); Kill the Luigi in your head
NERO
dmstfctn speak to NERO about Waluigi's Purgatory (2024); dmstfctn & Evita Manji
COEVAL MAGAZINE
dmstfctn & Evita Manji speak to Alasdair Milne about Waluigi's Purgatory (2024); conversation with evita & dmstfctn
T-MAG; In conversation with Evita Manji & dmstfctn
T-MAG
"Ever wondered whether an Artificial Intelligence could have its own desires?"; S+T+ARTS nomination
ARS ELECTRONICA
Godmode Epochs (2023) wins a S+T+ARTS nomination a year after its release; Networked Worlds
WEPRESENT
Waluigi's Purgatory (2024) featured in the Wepresent x Wetransfer publication
(residency): European Digital Deal
LEONARDO SUPERCOMPUTER, bologna
Assembling a system for real time AI-generated improvisational theatre
(talk): bodystacked
LCF, london
A talk on the faciality of AI characters in the GOD MODE series (2022-)
2023 (group show): Directory
THE WRONG BIENNALE, alicante
(live): Semibreve
THEATRO CIRCO, braga
(talk): Autonomous Worlds day
istanbul; Beyond Cultures of Ownership
SOMERSET HOUSE, london; Godmode Epochs
SERPENTINE, twitch; dmstfctn plays Godmode Epochs
SERPENTINE, twitch
Godmode Epochs (2023) launch on Serpentine's Twitch with curator Eva Jäger; AI UK 2023
QEII CENTRE, london
(release): Large Lore Models
0XPARC; Large Lore Models
0XPARC
A speculative tool for narrative building, with Eva Jäger and Alasdair Milne; Godmode Epochs
STEAM
An AI training game set in an infinite supermarket, time is short, the AI frustrated
(residency): ARTECHO
ETOPIA, zaragoza
Building a fully onchain narrative generation game, a.k.a a 'Large Lore Model'
(news): Turret Theory
SERPENTINE
Alasdair Milne examines the video game Godmode Epochs (2023); Public Engagement Grant
THE ALAN TURING INSTITUTE, london
dmstfctn are awarded the 2022 Alan Turing Institute Public Engagement Grant; dmstfctn investigates contemporary environments
CLOT
An interview on the GOD MODE series (2022—) by Christopher Michael; how to train ai?
ARTRIBUNE
An interview (in Italian) expanding on the game Godmode Epochs (2023)
2022 (live): GOD MODE (ep. 1)
SERPENTINE, london; IMPAKT FESTIVAL
HET HUIS, utrecht; UNSOUND BUBBLES
kraków; GOD MODE (ep. 1)
HQI, london
(news): Artist conversation with dmstfctn
IMPAKT TV
A live interview on simulation and AI, hosted by Marijn Bril at IMPAKT festival
2021 (release): ECHO FX
KRISIS PUBLISHING
A book and performance about market manipulation on Brexit Referendum night; Ø
FLATLINE PRESS/HYPERDUB
(screening): INTERFACE CHAOS ^ft SKY H1
CAFE OTO, london
(group show): NONPLUSULTRABLACK
SYNNIKA, frankfurt
(news): Demystification Committee debuts echo fx
AQNB
"The performance revisits the sociopolitical and economic tumult following Brexit"; ECHO FX
SLEEK
"A modern tale, constructed of lies, gorilla advertising bus campaigns and ..."; REALITY CHECK AHEAD
CLOT
"If the performance was a reaction, the book is a reflection, at 0x speed ..."
2020 (live): CTM ^× TRANSMEDIALE
BERGHAIN, berlin
(solo): OFFSHORE MATTERS
AKSIOMA, ljubljana
(screening): INTERFACE CHAOS
FORUM STADTPARK, graz
(talk): Moneylab #8
AKSIOMA
A panel on works of art that investigate the offshore financial industry
(news): INTERFACE CHAOS ^ft SKY H1
NERO
An interview on the short film INTERFACE CHAOS (2019), including excerpts; CHASING ILLICIT MONEY
NEW YORK TIMES
"A group of artists began a project to show how money could be moved offshore"
2019 (live): DESIGNING TIME
DESIGN MUSEUM, london
(solo): NETWORK ENSEMBLE
GLUQBAR, milan
(group show): A SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS
C-MINE, genk; PORTO DESIGN BIENNALE
TRINDADE, porto; A SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS
LUMA, arles
(screening): Ø.29
CORSICA STUDIOS, london; PORTO DESIGN BIENNALE
CAMPO 24 DE AGOSTO, porto; INTERFACE CHAOS
TRUST, berlin; INTERFACE CHAOS
EVENING CLASS, london
(release): Flash Demons
MILLE PLATEAUX
Audiovisual genealogy of financial algorithmic collapse, limited editon USB
2018 (live): transmediale face value
HKW, berlin; Borderline Festival
ONASSIS, athens; Borderline Festival
ONASSIS STEGI, athens
"Approach from West India Quay, see what corpses sprouted on the Isle of Dead"; Radical Networks
SPEKTRUM, berlin
(group show): 4^th Design Biennial
ARTER, istanbul; 4^th Istanbul Design BIENNIAL
ARTER, istanbul; transmediale face value
HKW, berlin; Situation #111
FOTOMUSEUM, winterthur
(talk): Automated Lands
NEW INSTITUTE, rotterdam; Automated Landscapes
HET NIEUWE INSTITUUT, rotterdam
Discussing the participative artwork Offshore Investigation Vehicle (2018); transmediale face value
HKW, berlin
Discussing the participative artwork Offshore Investigation Vehicle (2018); IMPAKT Festival
HET HUIS, utrecht
Discussing sonic experimentation with algorithms and financial speculation; MoneyLab #4
SOMERSET HOUSE, london
Discussing the participative artwork Offshore Investigation Vehicle (2018); Alt-Age
DESIGN MUSEUM, london
(release): A DAY IN THE LIFE OF
SCHLOSS-POST
"The phone on the cafe table buzzes: Graham. Mark sighs. Graham is a prick"; The Offshore Economist
Rizosfera
"You are alone on a dusty desert road... You have just run out of water....."
(news): Happy tax haven to all
NERO
An interview (in Italian) expanding on Offshore Investigation Vehicle (2017-18)
2017 (talk): the influencers
CCCB, barcelona
(residency): Vilem Flusser Residency
TRANSMEDIALE, berlin
(release): SELECTED NETWORK STUDIES
NUKFM
AV experiments with wireless network infrastructure, limited edition SD card