Everything Under Control

A control panel, a field of blinking LEDs, and a mouse cursor set in motion by a mouse jiggler — a device built to simulate presence and activity. Everything under Control examines the aesthetics of control rooms and the performative structure of post-human surveillance.

The work traces how the visual language of control rooms has shifted — from analog dashboards and switchboards, built for a human operator to read at a glance, to the abstracted, self-referential displays of automated systems, designed less to inform an observer than to signal function. It considers the control room not only as a physical space, but as a media form: an image of vigilance, circulated and consumed independently of whether anything is actually being watched. And it asks what remains of the human within this space — no longer the one who observes, but a residual signal the system registers, verifies, and confirms in its place.