ABOUT
Mouse Jiggler is a diptych comprising an automated sculpture and an arcade game with an alternative controller. Together, the two works examine the shifting relationship between digital labour, bodily presence, and automation.
The first work consists of a cursor moving autonomously through the exhibition space. Drawing on mouse jigglers, devices designed to simulate online activity in response to workplace surveillance, it translates a digital gesture of productivity into a physical, autonomous, and deliberately absurd performance. Displaced from the screen and embodied as a mechanical movement, an otherwise invisible act of labour becomes both visible and estranged.
The second work takes the form of an arcade game in which visitors must use a deliberately inefficient controller to close windows displaying articles about the impact of AI on the video game industry. t he work reverses the logic of automation: rather than delegating a repetitive task to a machine, it forces the body to perform an action that technology increasingly seeks to eliminate.
The two works thus operate as mirror images. In the first, the machine performs the simulation of human activity; in the second, the human body is made to perform a task that could be automated.
The second work takes the form of an arcade game in which visitors must use a deliberately inefficient controller to close windows displaying articles about the impact of AI on the video game industry. t he work reverses the logic of automation: rather than delegating a repetitive task to a machine, it forces the body to perform an action that technology increasingly seeks to eliminate.
The two works thus operate as mirror images. In the first, the machine performs the simulation of human activity; in the second, the human body is made to perform a task that could be automated.
Mouse Jiggler stages this reversal as a playful yet critical reflection on the changing forms of labour, presence, and agency within increasingly automated digital environments.
LES CHIMÉRIDES - STRASBOURG (FR)
2026