Ben Christ
In my interdisciplinary practice, I examine forms of violence embedded in digital technologies and contemporary culture — such as surveillance, data extraction, and algorithmic control. As emerging technologies reshape social and political relations, they promise improved living conditions while simultaneously producing new mechanisms of exclusion and harm. My work challenges the assumption that such forms of violence are inevitable or necessary drivers of progress.
Combining academic research, interviews, and on-site investigation, I work across media including 3D rendering and printing, AI-generated imagery, photography, video, and internet-sourced material. Through these approaches, I trace how technological systems materialise, operate, and inscribe themselves into everyday life.
Ben Christ — Gegengewichte
Holding Things Together — Summer 2026
Care can be invisible, especially when it is already received and no longer a conscious need. This notion could be traced in everyday objects, such as a washing machine. Counterweights inside function as support structures, preventing the machine from harming itself and its environment. Gegengewichte reflects on making this invisible support visible, highlighting its ability to both support and destroy, revealed through the stone's vibration and the machine's exaggerated movement in the video.
