Thilo Funders exhibition explores power dynamics and machine learning as a driving force.

Oceanic Horror or How to Survive the Night in the Haunted Mansion of Absolute Capitalism by Søren Thilo Funder deals with financial market forces, especially the role of machine learning in high-frequency trading. Invested in the temporal qualities and intricacies of the horror genre, the exhibition explores our current tempor(e)ality, and the use of the temporal as artistic material. In the exhibition, a multi-channel video installation has taken over the gallery space, bringing together computer-generated image sequences, filmed fiction, video field notes, applied special effects, a series of "sleep stations" assembled from office furniture, and the dying art of stockbroker hand signals.

Soren Thilo Funder is a visual artist working primarily with video and installation. His works are mash-ups of popular fictions, cultural tropes and socio-political situations, projections and histories. They are narrative constructions insisting on new meaning forming in the thin membrane negotiating fictions from realities. Invested in written and unwritten histories, the paradoxes of societal engagement, temporal displacements and a need for new nonlinear narratives, Thilo Funder proposes spaces for awry temporal, political and recollective encounters.

The exhibition marks the culmination of Funder’s Artistic Research PhD at the Art Academy, Department of Contemporary Art, University of Bergen also titled Oceanic Horror or How to Survive the Night in the Haunted Mansion of Absolute Capitalism. The research project searches for a certain condition found in horror fiction, that relates to its relentless nowness, a proposed prolonging of this now and its relation to the event and the quasi-event. And finally, how horror fiction wants to do things to the body - not only in a simple reaction mode but really in the very temporality experienced in and by the body.