Felix
![An artist's picture showing Felix.](https://blade-festival.de/img/2024/felix_hu9a8a2cf15cab70dc1b01e273d04606ac_116815_filter_10106438818360993031.webp)
Social Currents is a sensory system that seeks to make sense of human connections on a larger scale by displaying people’s digital twins and removing their agency. Over the span of hours, the installation attempts to build a social graph by detecting bodies and connecting them with each other.
Felix Renken is a video and visual artist based in Berlin. His work involves cyber-physical systems that interact with and manipulate environmental stimuli. Underlying concepts include digital representationalism, systems science, and the question of how complex patterns emerge from seemingly fundamental sets of rules.