London-based artist duo exploring complex systems through the lenses of simulation, fiction and experience. Their immersive performances, video installations and video games demystify systems by replicating and exploring them together with audiences, and remystify them by building new stories and worlds atop them. Their recent work has focused particularly on the relationship between simulation, machine learning and artificial intelligence, exploring the contradictions and unexpected behaviours that emerge within computational systems. Since 2018, dmstfctn’s work has been performed and exhibited internationally at venues including Berghain, Serpentine, Design Museum, Onassis, Corsica Studios, HKW, Fotomuseum Winterthur, LUMA Arles and Aksioma, and at festivals including Unsound, CTM, transmediale, Semibreve, Borderline and Impakt.
