Consent Not Guaranteed

Inspired by Philon of Byzantium’s ancient automatic servant—a robotic hand that served wine in temples—this work reimagines that gesture as an act of refusal. The interactive mechanical hand, built from servo components and wearable scaffolding, performs erratic or incomplete motions. It disrupts the logic of obedience and explores panic as a glitch in consent. The hand does not serve; it hesitates. Its silence resists the system it was built to obey.