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Final Research Document

2025

Final Research Document is not a traditional thesis—it is a staged system. Presented as an interactive website, the research invites visitors to navigate a deliberately unstable structure, guided (and sometimes misled) by an AI chatbot. It explores spectatorship, mediation, and control, and asks what happens when systems of interaction begin to break down.

Drawing from scenography and design, the work builds on experiments like Biecht, Blocked Throat, and Surveillance Time—installations that construct expectations only to subvert them. Friction, delay, and misalignment are used as deliberate methods to expose the invisible mechanics behind everyday interactions.

The document examines how frames—physical and digital—govern perception and participation. Who is watching whom? Who controls the frame? And what if that control slips?

Writing and making evolved together. The embedded chatbot performs the very questions the research raises: it forgets, glitches, reframes, and in doing so turns reading into an embodied experience of mediation.

This reflects my broader practice: constructing systems that feel intuitive, then twisting them. The document doesn’t deliver a fixed conclusion; it offers an ongoing encounter with instability as research.