Markus Skiöld Østerud

Bio

My artistic practice examines how contemporary systems (technological, institutional, and societal) shape our ability to act, connect, and care for ourselves. Working with installations, performance, and new media, I activate spaces and objects through performativity, reconfiguration, and automation. My work often engages with the architecture and infrastructure of the spaces it inhabits, both metaphorically and physically, operating somewhere between emulation and hyperbole. Through devices that often predate today's hyperconnectivity, I examine the shift from technology as tool to technology as extractive system.