works
In Vivo / In Vitro, Trial 1.4 (2024)Blink triggered imperceptibility
T.A.E.L. (Tail Assisted Environmental Learning) (2024)Cannibalistic folklore machine
Gradi Vox (2025)Symbiotic//parasitic wearable
Porous (2025)Subliminal hallucinatory earworms
writings
Friction as Medium: Epistemic Rupture through Imperceptible Interaction (2025)
presentations
Anomalistic Interactions, SIGGRAPH Asia (2024)
k0j0
We tell phantasmagoric stories about unconscious friction.
Koi Ren and Joey Verbeke are a New Media Art duo creating subversive and frictional “intrafaces” – artifacts that reveal the power, politics, and posthuman subjectivities embedded within systemic interactions. Their research-based practice pulls from their backgrounds in human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, media studies, and speculative design.
Through the defamiliarization of seductive seamlessness and tacit expectations, k0j0 provokes moments of epistemological rupture, inviting viewers into intimate proximity with the unfamiliar and the emergent dynamics shaping our futures.
Their work has been shown at venues and events such as, Ars Electronica, ACM SIGGRAPH, TEDAI, MUTEK, Gray Area, Heckscher Museum, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Diego Rivera Gallery, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Sundance Film Festival, and Denver International Airport.