Nina Davies: Image Syncers

Responding to TikTok trends of people mimicking artificially generated videos, Nina Davies’ new show Image Syncers explores possible futures where these generated choreographies disrupt visual economies and foster alternative modes of meaning production. Central to the show is a video narrated by a fictional podcast called What’s Sizzlin’. In this episode, host Bryce Snyder interviews journalist Teagan Carroll about her exposé on a break-in at the Trutch Seed Bank. Carroll reveals that the group, known as the Plot Corps, physically mimicked AI-generated imagery to evade detection. Their conversation expands into broader themes of 'perception-collapse,' 'Image Syncing,' and how language, images, and even bodies are evolving in a world dominated by synthetic media. 

 

The show features unaltered images of characters from the fictional subcultures explored in the film, alongside costumes from the video, accompanied by holograms that serve as apparitions of the fictional owners of these garments.

 

Nina Davies (b. 1991) is a Canadian-British artist who considers the present moment through observing dance in popular culture and how it is disseminated, circulated, made, and consumed. Previous research projects have included; the recent commodification of the dancing body on digital platforms and rethinking dances of today as traditional dances of the future. Oscillating between the use of fiction and non-fiction, her work helps build new critical frameworks for engaging with dance practices. Her work has recently been exhibited at The Photographers Gallery, London; Seventeen, London; Matt’s Gallery, London; and Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023. In 2021, she co-founded Future Artefacts FM, an artist-run program that showcases artists working with speculative fiction for broadcast.