Body Archive II : Digital Sensing: Biopolitics, Body and Environment

This programme gathers four works that probe how digital existence reconfigures our imaginaries of the body and its surrounds. Beginning from the materiality of the digital—the labour, infrastructures, minerals, and climates that sustain computation—the programme rethinks the cultural and social politics embedded in bodies and datasets alike. Their Eyes brings into view the Global South workers who train and maintain artificial intelligence.   Fossilis approaches the digital milieu through an archaeological lens, excavating interfaces and residues to expose technology’s extractive logics. Delivery Dancers’ Sphere traces platform delivery labour and its cultural politics through AI and avatar performance. Tropic Temper scrutinises regimes of environmental control built upon Singapore’s tropical imaginaries. Together, these works ask what is sensed, governed, and resisted when bodies meet computation.