Fragmentation, 2025

Fragmentation is an embodied immersive installation created for the exhibition Machines as Humans as Machines hosted and curated by Adapter Újbuda. The work offers an experiential encounter with machine vision: a system that observes, detects, and reconstructs what it sees.

As visitors step before a portrait-oriented 4K screen equipped with a depth camera, the system identifies human presence and begins to reassemble the image into shifting fragments. The visuals draw on two meanings of fragmentation:

• In computing: files and memory blocks become scattered, stored in non-contiguous spaces.
• In biology: a form of asexual reproduction where a fragment of an organism grows into a complete, genetically identical individual.

These dual interpretations merge into a “reversed creation story”: the machine watches the human and reshapes itself into the human’s form, generating new fragmented composites from what it perceives.

Technical setup:
4K portrait display • depth camera • AI-driven analysis and reconstruction

About the exhibition, in Hungarian.